Graduate student Zisheng Zhang (Alexandrova group) receives competitive Chemical Computing Group, Inc. (CCG) Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding graduate research, character and service within the community. In addition to recognizing talented graduate students, the CCG Excellence Awards were created to stimulate graduate student participation in ACS Computers In Chemistry (COMP) Division activities (symposia […]

Postdoctoral Scholars Xiangyang Chen (Houk group) and Yao He (Feigon group) receive the 2022 UCLA Chancellor’s $7,500 Awards for Postdoctoral Research in recognition of their research, its impact, and as a valued member of UCLA’s academic community. The award honors UCLA’s postdoctoral scholars for their important contributions to the university’s interrelated missions of research, teaching, […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, and Richard Kaner have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2022 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Since 2002, Clarivate has released an annual Web of Science list of researchers who have demonstrated compelling and broad influence across various disciplines. Comprising […]

On Thursday, December 1, 2022, Dr. Robert M. Stroud, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, will give the Inaugural Richard E. Dickerson Biochemistry Lecture titled “Caught in the Act! – Building the Wall!”. The lecture will be held in Boyer Hall 159 and online via Zoom. This lecture series honors Professor […]

Professor Abigail Doyle has been chosen the winner of the prestigious 2023 OMCOS Award. The OMCOS Award was established to recognize an early-to-mid career scientist who has made significant contributions to the field of organometallic chemistry and organic synthesis. This award is presented at each International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis. Doyle […]

The department congratulates Professor Margot Quinlan on her promotion to the rank of full professor. The rank of Full Professor is the highest rank that a professor can achieve (other than a named or administrative position) and is conferred upon sustained and distinguished track record of scholarly achievement within one’s university and academic discipline.  A […]

Professor Ellen Sletten receives the 2022 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. Sletten joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA […]

Professor Louis Bouchard is part of a team of researchers who have identified that iron drives the formation of fatty tissue in the heart and leads to chronic heart failure in about fifty percent of heart attack survivors. The sudden blockage of arteries that supply the heart muscle contributes to millions of heart attacks around […]