Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. […]

UCLA Newsroom features in-depth article about chemistry Ph.D. student AJ Addae (P. Weiss group), whose cosmetic research and development lab, which she founded before coming to UCLA, develops skincare products geared towards consumers with darker skin tones, with products in retailers such as Sephora and Ulta Beauty. Addae joined UCLA’s chemical biology graduate program in […]

Professor Justin Caram is one of three investigators chosen for 2023 The Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Awards. The Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Awards honor the contributions of investigators who have made a major impact on the field of physical chemistry in the research areas associated with each […]

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 […]