Professor Prineha Narang receives the 2023 Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award from Iota Sigma Pi, the National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry. The award is given for research achievement to a woman chemist or biochemist not over forty years of age. According to Iota Sigma PI, Narang was selected for the award in recognition […]

The department welcomes innovative organic chemist Dr. Soumitra Athavale, who will join the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2023. At UCLA, Athavale and his group will develop new synthetic methods, biocatalysts and therapeutics, as well as answer fundamental questions in protein structure and (bio)molecular evolution.   His discoveries will have wide reaching […]

Professor Heather Maynard has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. A member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty for more than two decades, Maynard holds […]

Graduate student Aamir Hassan Shah (Duan group) has been selected to receive the prestigious Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award for 2022-23.   Since 1981, only four exceptional UCLA graduate students per year are chosen by the College Deans to receive this prestigious award which recognizes “outstanding graduate students for exemplary academic […]

Alumnus Professor Peter R. Ogilby (Ph.D. ‘81, C. S. Foote group) has been “knighted” by Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark, for his 27 years of service at Aarhus University in Denmark and contributions to science. The honor was a surprise for Ogilby who is an American citizen. Ogilby will retire and become Professor Emeritus of […]

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Qi Qian (Duan group) has been selected for a prestigious 2023 MRS Postdoctoral Award “for pioneering research in developing and understanding van der Waals heterostructures and superlattices.” The MRS Postdoctoral Award recognizes postdoctoral scholars who are showing exceptional promise that may include, for example, excellence in scientific research, leadership, advocacy, outreach, or […]

Dr. Omar K. Farha (B.S. ’02, Ph.D. ‘06), the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry at Northwestern University,  an Executive Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and President of NuMat Technologies, has been selected for the 2023 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.   Prof. Farha will accept the award and present […]

A binational team, led by Professors Paul S. Weiss and Anne M. Andrews at UCLA, Professor Yossi Paltiel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Ron Naaman at the Weizmann Institute of Science, is one of the two teams selected to the 2023 cross-disciplinary collaborative research program for Climate Solutions by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science […]