An article about the late Professor Daniel Atkinson, featuring quotes from his family, former lab members, and colleagues, was featured in the August 30, 2024, issue of UCLA’s student-run publication, […]

Professor Paul S. Weiss has been named the recipient of the 2024 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. Since 1950, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement has been awarded […]

Professor Prineha Narang is part of a team of UCLA researchers that has received a one-year, $1 million grant as part of a new National Science Foundation program aimed at […]

Professor Keriann Backus has won the annual International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist Award. Backus will deliver her award lecture, titled “Defining the functional cysteinome with multidimensional chemoproteomics,” […]

Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and Senior Dean of the UCLA College, has been awarded the 2025 ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic […]

Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor, Neil Garg, has been awarded the 2025 David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis. Garg is the inaugural recipient of […]

Over 150 faculty, students, researchers, and staff attended the department’s Ice Cream Social on Friday, August 9, in the Court of Sciences outside Young Hall. The Paradise Fine Cookies and […]

Biochemistry graduate student Alexandra Turmon (Backus group) has been awarded a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (NIH F31). The NIH F31 award, formally known as the […]