Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.  “I am delighted to announce that Professor Alexander Spokoyny has agreed to serve […]

Professor Keriann Backus receives a 2023 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award, which honors the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who have served as effective research mentors to undergraduate students.  […]

Fifth-year chemical biology Ph.D. student Hayden Montgomery (Maynard/Spokoyny groups) has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2022-23 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award. According to […]

Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) has been selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list – Class of 2023 in the Health Care & Science category. Forbes magazine […]

The department welcomes talented mineral chemist Professor Abby Kavner, who will join the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty as a Full Professor on July 1, 2023. Prof. Kavner […]

Professor Louis Bouchard’s group and UCLA collaborators have developed a new approach for predicting landslides that decouples the analytic power of DNNs from their complex adaptive nature in order to […]

Fourth-year Chemistry graduate student Benqian Wei (Loo lab) has been awarded a 2023 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by Agilent. This fellowship carries a stipend of $25,000 […]

UCLA’s chemistry and biochemistry graduate degree programs are among the best in the nation, according to US News & World Report’s Best Graduate School rankings.  The UCLA Department of Chemistry […]