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 […]

After 37 years of service to the department, we bid farewell to MIC X-Ray Diffraction Staff Dr. Saeed Khan, who retired on July 1, 2023. Senior dean of the UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences and distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry Miguel García-Garibay, said of Saeed: “I arrived to UCLA in the early 1990s […]

On June 17, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry hosted this year’s commencement ceremony to celebrate the graduating class of 2023. The ceremony began with the welcome address by Department Chair, Professor Neil Garg.  Dean Miguel García-Garibay then presented the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry 2023 Alumni Award to commencement speaker Dr. Omar K. Farha […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been awarded the 2023 Gold Shield Faculty Prize. The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research and service. From UCLA Newsroom (by Wendy Soderburg): Chemist Anastassia Alexandrova receives 2023 Gold Shield Faculty Prize The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished […]