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 […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova and former and current members of her group are part of a UCLA team of researchers using advanced computer tools to examine how molecules interact in the mutated protein that can lead to blindness in young adults. Alumnus Dr. Jack T. Fuller (Ph.D. ’21, Alexandrova), now a postdoc at Pacific Northwest National […]

Framed Nobel Prize posters are now on display to honor the remarkable achievements of distinguished chemists and biochemists closely affiliated with UCLA and our department. The majority of these posters can be viewed in the Mol Sci 5241 conference room, with the Cram and Heck posters located in the Cram Conference room (Mol Sci 3440). […]

Several UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members have most cited publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) for 2020-2021. A highly cited JACS publication has garnered a substantial amount of attention and recognition within the scientific community. Anastassia Alexandrova – “CO₂ Hydrogenation to Formate and Formic Acid by Bimetallic Palladium-Copper Hydride Clusters” […]

Professor Prineha Narang, a pioneer in quantum matter research at UCLA, has been elected as a Young Alumni Trustee of her alma mater, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Narang joined the UCLA faculty in July 2022 leading an interdisciplinary group with research spanning chemistry, physics, and engineering. Before her move to UCLA, she was […]