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 to the CAS is one of the highest honors that China bestows on a citizen of a foreign country. This year Houk is among 25 […]

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 for in vivo neurotransmitter monitoring” was published in the November 24 issue of the journal Science Advances. Andrews is on the faculty of Psychiatry & […]

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 […]