ChemMatch, a new website created by a team led by Professor Neil Garg to inspire a love of chemistry, is featured in the Daily Bruin. The website, chemmatch.net, which was launched on Valentine’s Day, was developed by Professor Neil Garg and team members Laura Wonilowicz, Maya Rao, Jason Chari, Francesca Ippoliti, Arismel Tena-Meza, Dominick Witkowski, […]

Professor Luisa de Cola, University of Milano, Italy, was honored at the Hawthorne Lecture on March 2, 2022.  In her lecture titled “Releasing, or capturing, that is the question. Porous molecular materials” Professor Luisa de Cola presented the recent work conducted in her laboratory focused on the synthesis and properties of porous inorganic nanomaterials.  In […]

We are sad to report alumnus Thomas Douglas Hoffman (PhD ’68, Cram group) passed away on February 23, 2022 at the age of 80. Dr. Hoffman received his Ph.D. at UCLA under the direction of Nobel Laureate Professor Donald J. Cram.  From the Daily Record: Obituary – Thomas Douglas Hoffman A retired patent attorney from […]

UCLA Newsroom interviews Professor Hung Pham about his recent experience competing on the popular quiz television show Jeopardy!. Dr. Hung V. Pham, an Assistant Adjunct Professor of organic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, won second place in the episode that aired on February 14, 2022.  From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): The question is: […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group and collaborators have developed an ultrathin electronic membrane that is mechanically robust, highly flexible and stretchable, permeable and breathable, while retaining excellent electronic properties. A UCLA professor of chemistry since 2008, Professor Xiangfeng Duan has pioneered unconventional material integration approaches to functional heterostructures for electronic and energy devices.  From the UCLA Samueli […]

In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, UCLA Newsroom features in-depth spotlight on materials chemistry PhD student Samantha Mensah, co-founder of the #BlackInChem movement.  Fifth-year graduate student Samantha T. Mensah is working in the labs of Professors Anne Andrews and Paul Weiss. She studies biosensors that can detect neurotransmitters in vivo. Last year Mensah received UCLA Academic Senate’s prestigious 2021 […]

Our latest Alumni Spotlight features HN Cheng ‘69, 2021 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Dr. H.N. Cheng graduated summa cum laude and with departmental highest honors from the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry in 1969. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign […]

Five outstanding organic chemistry graduate students have been named Senior Foote Fellows – two for 2021 and three for 2022. Andrew Kelleghan and Anthony Spearman were named 2021 Senior Foote Fellows and Ana Bulger, Matthew McVeigh, Billy Treacy have been named the 2022 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Senior Foote Fellowships are awarded to our most […]