A two-day conference in honor of Professor Kendall Houk will take place August 11-12, 2022, at UCLA’s Chemistry & Biochemistry Department. Professor Kendall N. Houk’s former graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have organized the Houk Research Conference (HRC) to honor the career, tradition, and experience of computational chemistry research at UCLA with Houk. The conference […]

Professor Chong Liu is one of eight UCLA assistant professors selected to receive the prestigious 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship.   Awarded annually since 1955, the Sloan Fellowships honor scholars in the U.S. and Canada whose creativity, leadership, and independent research achievements make them some of the most promising researchers working today. An assistant professor of inorganic […]

Alumnus Marco Messina (PhD ’19 Maynard/Spokoyny groups), now a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, is selected for the department’s Norma Stoddart Prize for Exemplary Citizenship and Excellence in Graduate Research. Dr. Marco Messina (pictured above) will give the Norma Stoddart Lecture at UCLA in the Spring of 2022 and will receive a $5,000 […]

Popular chemistry professor and alum Hung V Pham (PhD ’15 Houk group) appears on the TV quiz show Jeopardy, wins second place!. 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. The episode was filmed during […]

A team of UCLA scientists and engineers, co-led by Professor Anne Andrews, has developed a smartwatch for noninvasive stress biomarker monitoring with real-time feedback. The collaborative effort was led by Professor Anne Andrews (pictured above) in the Departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova receives Utah State University’s 2021 Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of her pioneering endeavors. A professor of chemistry and biochemistry and vice chair for undergraduate education, Alexandrova’s laboratory focuses on computational and theoretical design and multi-scale description of new materials.  Excerpted from Utah State TODAY (by Mary-Ann Muffoletto: USU Department of Chemistry […]

Nanotech Energy, the company co-founded by Professor Richard Kaner, is named CES 2022 Innovation Award Winner as the only producer of non-flammable, graphene-based batteries.   The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s largest technology tradeshow. Nanotech Energy’s award-winning batteries utilize the non-flammable electrolyte technology that Professor Richard Kaner and his former graduate students Dr. Brian McVerry […]

Professor Joseph Loo has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Loo is among 564 scholars selected as fellows this year. The 2021 fellows will be honored this month in the journal Science and in person later this year, when it is safer to do so. AAAS Fellows in the […]