UCLA’s chemistry and biochemistry graduate degree programs are among the best in the nation, according to US News & World Report’s Best Graduate School rankings.  The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry’s graduate program ranked No. 17 in the country. The organic program landed in the top 10, ranking No. 9, and the department’s other […]

Professor Paula Diaconescu has been awarded an American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) Oilfield Chemistry Roundtable Grant. An inorganic chemist at UCLA since 2005, Professor Paula Diaconescu‘s research group focuses on the design of reactive metal complexes with applications to small molecule activation, organic synthesis, and polymer formation. Diaconescu is the director of […]

PhD student Austin Ready (Spokoyny lab) has been selected for the AFRL 2022 Space Scholars Program to work on the design, fabrication, characterization, and development of functional coatings and materials for space technology. Austin is a third-year year graduate student in Professor Alex Spokoyny’s lab working on the synthesis and characterization of redox-active icosahedral boron […]

Alumnus Cooper Jamieson (PhD ’21, Houk/Tang groups) has been selected to participate in the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June 2022.  Jamieson was selected as one of the 600 most qualified young scientists who will get the opportunity to experience and contribute to the unique atmosphere of this years’ Lindau Meeting. The Lindau Nobel […]

1st year chemistry PhD student and 3rd year DGSOM MD-PhD student Eric Lin (Sletten lab) receives Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship.  The prestigious TRDRP predoctoral fellowship is awarded to those who conduct research aimed at reducing the negative impact of tobacco use by focusing on tobacco use prevention, tobacco cessation, or tobacco-related disease. Recipients of […]

Graduate student Andrew Dawson (Tolbert group) has been named a 2022 CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellow, serving on the Senate Housing Committee. Dawson, a native Californian, studies materials that increase the energy stored in lithium-ion batteries in Professor Sarah Tolbert’s group. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California, Santa […]

93 years ago today, Chemistry 1A was the first class ever taught at UCLA’s Westwood campus. On March 18, 1929, the first chemistry class met at UCLA’s Westwood campus, six months before the official opening of the campus. The 125 students enrolled in Professor Hosmer W. Stone’s Chemistry 1A were the first to receive instruction. […]

Students from Dr Laurence Lavelle’s Chem 14B classes thoroughly enjoyed a fun “Karaoke Night w/ DJ Lavelle” virtual event and contest on March 11th.  Students from Dr. Laurence Lavelle’s Winter 2022 Chem 14B classes attended the free online event, which was organized by three students in his class. Gift cards were awarded to the top contestants […]