Julia L. Sabin ’83, Vice President of Government Relations at The J.M. Smucker Company, has been selected for the 2024 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.  Sabin will accept the award and present the commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 15, 2024. “My UCLA experience not only became […]

On the morning of March 15, 2024, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, graduate students, and eager undergraduates gathered in Boyer Hall 159 for a student-faculty mixer, hosted by UCLA’s Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) in collaboration with the department. More than 40 faculty members and students engaged in friendly, casual exchanges over […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate researchers Katie Bogue (Quinlan group), Juliana Girdner (Li group), Amanda Nguyen (Schwartz group), Shivani Patel (Kruglya group), Srihari Prabu (Araujo group), Jordan Tatang (Radu group), Jeff Qu (Rodriguez group), Blake Williams (Spencer group) received the 2024 Dean’s Prize Medal of Excellence at the 2024 UCLA Undergraduate Research Creativity Showcase. The Dean’s […]

In a study just published in Nature Catalysis, a research collaboration between Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professor Yu Huang’s group in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor William A. Goddard III’s group at the California Institute of Technology, has yielded a groundbreaking discovery […]

Fourth-year computational & systems biology undergraduate researcher Elise Ỷ-lan Tran (Alexandrova group) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship for 2024-2025 to visit Vietnam for ten months to conduct her own research project aimed at assisting the Deaf community.  Tran is eager to apply principles of physics to delve into human biology, with […]

Department Chair Professor Alex Spokoyny has been named the inaugural recipient of the Northwestern International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Trailblazer Award, in recognition of his pioneering work on developing new methods for creating hybrid atomically-precise nanostructures. Spokoyny presented a talk about his research at Northwestern University on May 9, 2024, titled “Organometallic Strategies for Modifying […]

Teacher-Scholar Dr. Rajat Maji has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which will support his research to incorporate data science and high-throughput experimentation in organic reaction optimization and discovery. The NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) is for exceptional postdoctoral […]

Alumni Dr. Jesus Moreno (Ph.D. ’17 Garg group) and Prof. Nako Nakatsuka (Ph.D. ’17 Andrews/P Weiss groups) have been named to Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) “Talented 12” Class for 2024. Moreno and Nakatsuka will speak about their work and their journeys during a symposium on August 19 at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2024 […]