We are sad to report that Adela Roberts, widow of UCLA biochemistry professor emeritus Roberts Smith, passed away on December 31, 2021. In May, 2022 Adela’s family had a small […]

Samantha (Sammy) Mensah – talented scientist, passionate activist, co-founder of BlackInChem, and UCLA Bruin – passed away on February 22, 2023. Sammy was a 6th-year chemistry graduate student in the […]

On February 6, 2023, alumnus Dr. Marco Messina (Ph.D. ’19 Maynard/Spokoyny groups), currently a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, was presented with the 2023 Norma Stoddart Prize for […]

Professor Justin Caram is among 126 early-career researchers receiving the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations […]

Professor Daniel G. Nocera (Harvard), a world-renowned chemist known for revolutionizing chemical approaches to energy, visited UCLA on January 26, 2023, to give the Winter 2023 Distinguished Lecture.  Over 200 […]

We are saddened to report that Emeritus Professor E. Russell Hardwick passed away on January 12, 2023, at the age of 100. Professor Hardwick studied Business Administration at UCLA and […]

A collaborative research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group and Professor Anastassia N. Alexandrova’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor Yu Huang’s group in […]

Professor Yi Tang has been selected as a 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the fields of […]