Professor Carla Koehler’s glass artwork, inspired by her mitochondrial research and the natural beauty of California landscapes, is featured in the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation’s newsletter. While on sabbatical in Washington, DC, Koehler learned glass fusing at the Art Glass Center at Glen Echo in Maryland and has continued to fuse glass, take classes and experiment. […]

Professor Miguel García-Garibay has been selected to join the Mexican Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member. A passionate scholar and scientist, García-Garibay’s research group has earned worldwide recognition in the fields of organic photochemistry, solid-state organic chemistry and physical organic chemistry.   A member of UCLA’s faculty for more than two decades, García-Garibay has served as dean of the […]

UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter has been named the inaugural senior strategic advisor for sustainability science at the DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In his announcement, Chancellor Gene Block said that Carter, also a member of the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, expressed to him an urgency to refocus her expertise […]

Alumna Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17 Andrews/P Weiss Groups), a senior scientist at ETH Zürich, is profiled on the university’s website.  Nakatsuka, currently a senior scientist at ETH Zürich in the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics led by Professor Janos Vörös, received a B.S. in chemistry with a bioengineering focus from Fordham University in 2012 and […]

Professor Abigail Doyle and PhD students Samuel Newman-Stonebraker and Julia Borowski are part of a team to introduce a workflow that allows scientists to predict phosphine ligand reactivity on the basis of one structural parameter.  The team’s paper, “Univariate classification of phosphine ligation state and reactivity in cross-coupling catalysis”, was recently published in the prestigious […]

The department is seeking outstanding candidates for tenure-track or tenured faculty positions at the level of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor.  The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is conducting three faculty searches in the fields of biochemistry (open rank), chemistry (open rank), and medicinal chemistry (endowed chair position; Associate & Full Professors only). We […]

At a small reception on September 24, 2021, we welcomed Professor Abigail Doyle to UCLA and celebrated her appointment as the 4th holder of the Winstein Chair. Doyle joined the UCLA faculty in July 2021 as the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry. Prior to that she was a faculty member in the Department of […]

UCLA SMACS receives an outstanding performance rating from the ACS, as well as a 2020-21 Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award. The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) at UCLA received the award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute (GCI), which is given to student groups which promote green chemistry on […]