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 […]

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 […]