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 […]

Albert Courey, Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean of Physical Sciences for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2022-2023 DEI Faculty Award for Student Development.  According to the Academic Senate’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, this award honors a faculty member “who has excelled in […]

UCLA alumni Karen Timberlake (M.S. ’65) and William Timberlake (M.S. ’66) received the 2023 Alumni Legacy Award at the Chemistry & Biochemistry Departmental Awards Ceremony on May 31. The award honors distinguished UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry alumni who have received a graduate-level degree from UCLA, in recognition of their achievements in life, and […]