Oct 20, 2016
The noted polymer physicist, Professor Alexander (Shura) Grosberg, presented the 10th annual Robert Scott lecture on October 17, 2016.
Oct 19, 2016
Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez are part of the international team whose research may help reduce mosquito-carried diseases.
Oct 18, 2016
The 2016 International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB) was featured extensively in a recent issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN).
Oct 14, 2016
Professor Douglas Rees (Caltech/HHMI) gave the Fall 2016 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Monday, October 10th.
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Oct 14, 2016
Third year graduate student Joyann Barber finds time to follow her skating passion, while also pursuing graduate studies in organic chemistry.
Oct 13, 2016
The piece, “Nano Day: Celebrating the Next Decade of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”, was promoted by the ACS as their "editors' choice" top paper of the day.
Oct 12, 2016
“A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science” is Scerri’s 4th book published by Oxford University Press.
Oct 7, 2016
We have an exciting group of speakers scheduled for our 2016-17 Distinguished Lecture Series: Professors Douglas Rees, Kimberly Prather and Jacqueline Barton.
Oct 5, 2016
Professor Emeritus of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Sir Fraser Stoddart has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Oct 3, 2016
Five UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty are among the most influential scientists in their fields for 2016, as determined by Thomson Reuters.
Sep 30, 2016
History was made this year when we welcomed 94 new graduate students to the department!
Sep 30, 2016
We welcome three new Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholars and bid farewell to Sharon Neufeldt, now a faculty member at Montana State University.
Sep 29, 2016
Professors Shimon Weiss and Jose Rodriguez are involved in the new NSF-funded Science and Technology Center (STC) on Real-Time Functional Imaging.
Sep 29, 2016
Spokoyny joined science writers to make give their best guesses as to who will claim the prize on October 5th.
Sep 23, 2016
In the article, UCLA biochemistry instructor Heather Tienson was interviewed about her use of Wikipedia in the classroom.
Sep 23, 2016
We welcome MIC’s new NMR scientist Ta-Chung "TC" Ong to UCLA.
Sep 20, 2016
The research resulting from a collaboration with Scripps Research Institute was recently published in the journal Science.
Sep 15, 2016
In the video titled "The quest to make any molecule, Total synthesis with Hosea Nelson", Nelson talks about his work to help chemists build molecules.
Sep 15, 2016
The viscosity of an ordinary solvent (DMF), when trapped in a nanocage of a porous solid, is about 4 orders of magnitude greater than that of the bulk liquid.
Sep 9, 2016
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Roy Wollman, who has joined the department’s Biochemistry Division as an associate professor.
Sep 8, 2016
Professor Craig Merlic’s work as the nation’s foremost academic laboratory safety expert was recently highlighted in UCLA Newsroom’s in depth article.
Sep 2, 2016
UCLA chemists & alumnus collaboration leads to discovery of how to get a solid material to act like a liquid without actually turning it into liquid.
Aug 31, 2016
Many exciting things are happening in the UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC)!
Aug 29, 2016
Washington Monthly ranked UCLA 8th among national universities & SJTU’s Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UCLA 2nd among US public institutions & 12th overall.
Aug 26, 2016
The department hosted a reception for undergraduate scholars who have conducted research in faculty labs over the summer.