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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]