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 the cutting edge of research and innovation. These prizes are for teams or collaborations who are opening up new directions and possibilities in their field, […]

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 competitive award, Alexandrova and her co-investigator Professor Philippe Sautet will receive 2,000,000 Theta node-hours access to the leadership-class supercomputers at DOE’s Argonne and Oak Ridge […]

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. chemistry ’17)  is a chemistry graduate student in Professor Anastassia Alexandrova‘s group, a longtime Los Angeles firefighter, and director of science and research for the International Association […]

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 “Recent Innovations in Solid-State and Molecular Qubits for Quantum Information Applications”, began as a project for Professor Anastassia Alexandrova’s (pictured above) Winter 2020 Methods of […]

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 development of synthetic methodologies using unconventional building blocks and innovation in the synthesis of complex molecules.  He is the first UCLA faculty member to receive […]

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 recognized are Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, Richard Kaner, and Jeffrey Zink.  According to UCLA Newsroom, in total, 43 UCLA scholars are among the most highly […]

Dr Carly Daniels (PhD ’14 BMSB, Loo group) discusses her COVID-19 vaccine research at Pfizer in recent UCLA Newsroom Magazine article. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Florida, Daniels joined the UCLA Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) program in 2009, working with Professor Joseph Loo. After completing her Ph.D. in biochemistry and […]

We are sad to report that alum Willy Dietrich Kollmeyer (PhD ’67 Trueblood group) passed away at the age of 82 on September 9, 2021. Dr. Kollymeyer and his wife Barbara, who passed away in 2016, were long-time supporters of the department.   Professor Kenneth Trueblood was Dr. Kollmeyer’s advisor during his graduate studies. He recently […]