Professor Ken Houk is elected a foreign member of the CAS in recognition of his scientific achievements and contributions to promoting the development of science and technology in China.  Election […]

A new type of implantable microprobe for in vivo neurotransmitter detection was developed by a team led by Professor Anne Andrews at UCLA.  The paper titled “Implantable aptamer-field-effect transistor neuroprobes […]

Team led by Professor Neil Garg awarded the 2021 Horizon Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Education Division.  The Horizon Prize highlights the most exciting, contemporary chemical science at […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins supercomputer access for 2022 from the DOE Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.  Through the very […]

UCLA Newsroom features in-depth article about Derek Urwin, chemistry PhD student (Alexandrova lab) and LA firefighter, and his efforts to improve firefighter health and safety. Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. […]

Class project results in an ACS Virtual Issue and an editorial published in The Journals of Physical Chemistry A/B/C and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.   The ACS Virtual Issue publication, titled […]

Department Chair Professor Neil Garg wins the 2022 Mukaiyama award in recognition of his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry.  The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ) award recognizes Garg’s […]

Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2021 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Those […]