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 […]

The department welcomes renowned bioinorganic chemist Professor Hannah Shafaat, who will join the UCLA faculty as a Full Professor on July 1, 2023. Currently a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry […]

UCLA biochemistry instructor and alumnus Dr. Stacie Nakamoto (Ph.D. ’01, Merchant group), aka “The Baking Biochemist”, is a contestant on the latest season of The Great American Baking Show, which […]

Professor Patrick Harran, UCLA’s Donald J. and Jane M. Cram Professor of Organic Chemistry, and his group have been awarded a grant by National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry […]

Undergraduate researcher Amanda Nguyen (Schwartz group) has been selected for the prestigious 2023-24 UCLA Beckman Scholars Program. The 2023-24 Beckman Research Scholarship at UCLA is awarded to outstanding undergraduate researchers […]