Professor Neil Garg has agreed to serve an additional year as Chair of the department, with four new Vice Chairs appointed for one-year terms.  “I’m delighted to report that Professor Neil Garg has agreed to serve an additional year as Chair of the department,” said Dean of Physical Sciences Professor Miguel García-Garibay. “We are very grateful […]

Ph.D. student Zachary Gvildys (Bruinsma and Gelbart/Knobler groups) is one of only five UCLA Ph.D. students selected for the 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. According to the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching, Gvildys was selected for the award from a large field of extraordinary nominees campus-wide. The award is a tribute to Gvildys’ […]

Congratulations to our current students and alumni who have received prestigious 2022 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. institutions. The five-year fellowship includes […]

Dr. Robert and Carole Foran have made a generous commitment to the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry in honor of Professor Kenneth Trueblood.   Their gift establishes the Robert and Carole Foran Fund in Chemistry & Biochemistry to support undergraduate, graduate, and/or post-doctoral scholarships and fellowships in honor of Professor Kenneth Trueblood, who was a well-respected […]

Professors Louis Bouchard and Paula Diaconescu receive 2022 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Awards. These awards honor the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who have served as effective research mentors to undergraduate students.  As part of the UCLA Undergraduate Research Week, which was held on May 23-27, 2022, undergraduate student researchers who presented their work during […]

Professor Prineha Narang, who will join the UCLA faculty in July, is profiled by her alma mater the California Institute of Technology. Currently an Assistant Professor at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Professor Prineha Narang will transition her group to UCLA’s College of Letters and Sciences effective July […]

UCLA alumni Dr Atsuko and Akira Fujimoto have made an additional $100,000 commitment to the Roberts A Smith Graduate Award for the Study of Biochemistry.  The Roberts A. Smith Graduate Award for the Study of Biochemistry was established in 2009 with a generous endowment from funds contributed both by Professor Roberts Smith and his wife […]

Professor Abigail Doyle has been named one of 31 National Finalists for the 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Chosen from a pool of 309 nominated promising scientific researchers aged 42 years and younger from America’s top academic and research institutions, Doyle is one of ten Chemistry finalists. The finalists were selected based on […]