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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]