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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]