The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has appointed Philippe Sautet, a distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, as the Levi James Knight, Jr. Term Chair for Excellence, effective retroactively […]

The department congratulates Professor Roy Wollman on his promotion to the rank of full professor. The rank of Full Professor is the highest rank that a professor can achieve (other […]

Dr. Chuanzhen Zhao (M.S. ’17 chemistry, Ph.D. ’20 materials chemistry P. Weiss and A. Andrews groups), currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford, has been named to Forbes magazine’s 30 Under […]

On August 17, 2022, the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry honored 2022 Nobel Laureate Professor Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford) with the 2022 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal in recognition of her seminal […]

Graduate student Zisheng Zhang (Alexandrova group) receives competitive Chemical Computing Group, Inc. (CCG) Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding graduate research, character and service within the community. In addition […]

Postdoctoral Scholars Xiangyang Chen (Houk group) and Yao He (Feigon group) receive the 2022 UCLA Chancellor’s $7,500 Awards for Postdoctoral Research in recognition of their research, its impact, and as […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, and Richard Kaner have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2022 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on […]

On Thursday, December 1, 2022, Dr. Robert M. Stroud, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, will give the Inaugural Richard E. Dickerson Biochemistry Lecture titled “Caught […]