Professor Ken Houk and Cram Teacher Scholar Dr. Huiling Shao are part of an international team of researchers who have succeeded for the first time in using structural editing to insert a four-membered molecular ring into a larger, aromatic ring, creating a structurally complex bicyclic ring system.  The team published this new strategy in the […]

We are excited to share a special video with messages from our faculty, congratulating our recently graduated Ph.D. students! As a tradition that started in 2020, these video messages have become a great way for our faculty to express their appreciation to our graduating Ph.D. students.

Graduating doctoral student Shreya Patel (Tolbert group) has been awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) to support her work on nanoscale optical materials at Northwestern University. The purpose of the MPS-Ascend program is to support postdoctoral Fellows who will broaden the participation of members of groups that are historically […]

Graduate student Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang (Eisenberg group) is a winner of the 2023 Brain Diseases Award from the UZH Foundation for his “excellent discovery of TMEM106B as the component of the FTLD amyloid fibrils”.  UZH Foundation awards the yearly prize (10,000 Swiss Francs) to a Ph.D. student for outstanding contributions to non-clinical basic research […]

Chemistry graduate student Caitlyn Fick (Srivastava group) has been chosen by the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program to teach a lower-division seminar titled, “PFAS, pesticides, and plastics: how revolutionary chemistry has changed our past and future”. Fick’s course, which she will teach either during the Winter or Spring Quarters of Academic Year […]

On July 1, 2023, the baton for the leadership of the NIH-supported UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Predoctoral Research Training Program was passed on to Professor Patrick Harran from Professor Heather Maynard. Maynard was the Director and Primary Investigator (PI) of interdisciplinary training grant from 2011 to 2023. “I am excited for Patrick to take the […]

A collaborative research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group, Professor Anastassia N. Alexandrova’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor Yu Huang’s group in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering has developed a new strategy to tailor the local chemical environment on Pt for boosting alkaline hydrogen evolution […]

After 22 years of service to the department, we bid farewell to MIC Magnetic Resonance Staff Scientist Dr. Robert “Bob” Taylor, who retired on July 1, 2023. Bob’s contributions to the department will be sorely missed. It would be hard to overstate the impact he’s had on the education and training of students in Chemistry […]