Professor Ohyun Kwon is one of ten organic chemists to be selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for the prestigious 2024 Arthur C Cope Scholar Award for her contributions to the field of organic chemistry. Kwon will receive the award, which includes $5,000, a certificate, and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant, at the Fall […]

Professor Joseph Loo is the recipient of the ACS 2024 Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry. This national American Chemical Society (ACS) award, sponsored by the Waters Corp., recognizes “outstanding achievement in the development or application of mass spectrometry.” Loo will be honored at the ACS Spring […]

Dr. Melissa Ramirez (Ph.D. ’21 organic chemistry, Garg and Houk groups), currently a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been named a 2023 CAS Future Leader and also awarded an NIH K99/R00 MOSAIC award. Ramirez’s two recent awards demonstrate her leadership in science, excellence in research, and commitment to diversity. The […]

Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science, was interviewed by Drug Discovery News for her pioneering research on poly(trehalose methacrylate) (pTrMA). Her work leverages the polymer’s protective properties to create more stable formulations of critical life-saving drugs. The article, titled “From Sea Monkeys to Shelf-Stable Insulin”, discusses Maynard’s development […]

Three new pieces have been added to the ongoing Art Show in the Winstein Commons, which opened in October 2022. In 2004, the Saul and Sylvia Winstein Commons was established as a tribute to Professor Saul Winstein, renowned as one of the foremost organic chemists of his time.  The “Commons” name reflects the uniqueness of […]

Professor Prineha Narang leads a UCLA team awarded $1 million by the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Sensing Challenges program. The grant, spanning four years, aims to develop new sensor technologies that can precisely measure the previously unmeasurable. Narang joined the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty in July, 2022 as the Howard Reiss Development […]

Tim Duong, an undergraduate researcher in the Neuhauser group, received the Best GPU Poster Award during the COMP Poster Session at the NVIDIA GPU Award Symposium at the recent American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2023 meeting. The NVIDIA GPU Award for Best GPU Poster recognizes exceptional computational chemistry research using graphics processing units (GPUs), including […]

In partnership with UCLA’s Recreation Summer Camps, Professor Neil Garg and members of his group recently held a week-long summer pilot program called “Chem Kids” to teach children the basics of organic chemistry. From UCLA Newsroom (by Ron Mackovich-Rodriguez) Organic chem for kids? UCLA program immerses youngsters in notoriously challenging subject But in a weeklong […]