Professor Anne Andrews discusses her brain biosensor research with science journalist Robyn Williams on “The Science Show”. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s Science Show is considered by many people to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Andrews’ nine-minute interview was a segment of Williams’ one-hour radio show titled “Trying to read people’s minds with biosensors” […]

Join us for the annual one-day SoCal TheoChem 6 Conference, focusing on theoretical and computational chemistry, to be held at UCLA on Saturday, October 14, 2023.  Organized by UCLA physical chemists, Professors Anastassia Alexandrova and Benjamin Schwartz, the conference is an annual meeting of theoretical chemists of Southern California. The event will feature several respected […]

This summer, we bid farewell to former Teacher-Scholars Kristopher Barr and Daniel Nasrallah, and we welcome our newest Teacher-Scholars Chau Ngo and Rajat Maji. Our Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience research and teaching at the same time as a way to prepare them for future faculty or research positions. Dr. Kristopher Barr (2020-23 […]

Department Chair Prof. Alexander Spokoyny has announced the 2023-24 academic year’s Vice Chairs (VC), while also expressing gratitude to the previous department leadership team. After his term as Department Chair ended on June 31, 2023, Prof. Neil Garg agreed to stay on as Vice Chair for Academic Personnel and Prof. Jorge Torres will continue as […]

14 chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2023-2024 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students who work within chemistry and biochemistry labs from the BBSB and MSE programs have also been awarded the fellowship. The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and […]

Professors Matthew Nava and Danielle Schmitt have been selected to receive a UCLA Faculty Career Development Awards. Nava and Schmitt will both receive $15,000, which will assist them as they advance an on-going research project, creative activity, or as they embark on a new project, during the 2023-24 academic year. The UCLA Equity, Diversity, and […]

Congratulations to Professor Justin Caram on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2023. A physical chemist, Caram joined the chemistry faculty in July 2017 as an assistant professor. His group develops and studies novel photophysical materials using photon-resolved spectroscopic methods. Caram holds an A.B. degree in chemistry from Harvard University, where […]

First-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry to represent the ACS at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, UAE.  The COP is an international event organized under the […]