The department welcomes renowned chemist Professor Stuart J. Conway, who joins the UCLA faculty as the Michael and Alice Jung Chair in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery. Currently a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the E. P. Abraham Cephalosporin Fellow in Organic Chemistry at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, Prof. Conway […]

Professor Ellen Sletten has been selected for one of UCLA’s highest teaching honors, the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty. Sletten is one of six campus-wide recipients chosen by the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Teaching for the award which recognizes academically and professionally accomplished individuals who bring respect and admiration to the scholarship […]

UCLA Professor William Gelbart explains his transition from theoretical physical chemistry to experimental molecular biology, and discusses his life, research and career, in an extensive 2021 interview with science historian Dr. David Zierler for the American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives. Gelbart joined the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty in 1975, when […]

Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s list of Innovators Under 35 (IU35) Japan for his development of a “next-generation battery” that does not use rare materials. The annual list recognizes the brightest young minds working in technology today. Katsuyama was recognized at the IU35 Japan Summit in […]

Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Jacob Kim (Kwon lab), Andrew Palmer (Backus lab), and Arismel Tena-Meza (Garg lab) have been named the 2023 Senior Foote Fellows. The Senior Foote Fellowships support our most outstanding third-year graduate students upon completion of their qualifying examination for their Ph.D. degree and the Junior Foote Fellowships support our most […]

Professor Vinothan Manoharan (Department of Physics, Harvard University) gave the 7th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on February 27, 2023. The well-attended lecture, entitled “The Self-Assembly of Simple RNA Viruses”, was followed by a question-and-answer period and then by a reception in the Young Hall Cafe Commons. Select photos from the event are below. […]

Professor Neil Garg is the 2023 recipient of the Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, an annual award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) presented to scientists and engineers in recognition of their contributions to public engagement with science. According to the AAAS announcement, the award recognizes Garg’s […]

Professor Ellen Sletten has been selected for a 2023 Rising Star Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee (WCC) for her work on new approaches to imaging and drug delivery. Sletten will receive the award at a reception following the WCC Rising Star Symposium at American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2023 national […]