The UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is seeking outstanding candidates for tenure–track or tenured faculty positions at the level of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor. Successful applicants at the Assistant level will be expected to develop strong and creative research programs and to contribute to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants at […]

Chemical biology graduate student AJ Addae (Paul S. Weiss group) will be speaking at the United Nations Economic Commissions for Africa’s Forum of the Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities in Africa, to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 10, 2023. Before coming to UCLA, Addae founded SULA LABS, a research and development laboratory that […]

Professor Danielle Schmitt receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.  The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, disbursed over a five-year period, is from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Program. Established in 2007, the program supports early-career investigators pursuing highly innovative research with the […]

Professor Todd Yeates and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Roger Castells-Graells led a team of biochemists in devising a solution that allows for the immobilization of small protein molecules during imaging, thereby enhancing cryo-EM’s ability to produce clearer images of these molecules. From UCLA Newsroom (by Holly Ober): UCLA-led team develops key improvement to Nobel Prize-winning technology […]

An in-depth article about the department’s Teacher-Scholar program was recently featured in UCLA’s student-run paper, the Daily Bruin. From the Daily Bruin by Kai Nikchevich: UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry names two new teacher-scholars The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s teacher-scholar program offers recent Ph.D. recipients the chance to not only work on research but […]

Yessica Nelson, a fourth-year inorganic chemistry graduate student from the Spokoyny group, received the first prize in the technical presentation competition for advanced Ph.D. students at the 47th Annual Board Meeting and Conference of the National GEM Consortium (GEM) held in Philadelphia on September 14-16, 2023. Founded in 1976 at the University of Notre Dame, […]

UCLA has been named the nation’s top public university in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings. The campus has now held the No. 1 spot for seven consecutive years in the annual rankings. “The success we have had in college rankings is reflective of the hard work, dedication, resilience, ingenuity and […]

Materials chemistry graduate student Amir Nasajpour (P. Weiss group) has been selected as one of the finalists to compete in the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Washington, D.C. next month. Nasajpour is one of ten finalists who will present their invention to a panel of judges from the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the […]