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The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Department has a tradition of excellence and is ranked among the best in the country, as evidenced by the quality of its programs, the caliber of its faculty, and the excellence of its students. The Department is a leader in cutting-edge research and innovative educational programs.

News Items

Chemistry graduate students who organized NanoPower symposium during the last ACS are featured in C&E News

Al Courey's new textbook, Mechanisms in Transcriptional Regulation, has just been published by Wiley/Blackwell

Sabeeha Merchant is the recipient of the Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologist Award in 2008

Tom Mason's and Carlos Hernandez's work on fluorescent microscale alphabet highlighted in UCLA News and exhibited at MoMA

Jeff Zink's and Fuyu Tamanoi's "nanoimpellers" research on MSNBC and Small

Jeff Zink's and Fraser Stoddart's paper on pH nanovalves is highlighted in Nature

Ken Houk's and Jason DeChancie's Nature and Science papers highlighted in UCLA News

Ben Schwartz wins 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award

Ken Houk and collaborators design active sites of new enzymes as detailed in Science

Robin Garrell receives Gold Medal in the 2007 Pioneering Nanotechnology Competition

Ken Houk's and Hakan Gunaydin's PNAS paper solves a chemical mystery that may yield more efficient hydrogen cars

UCLA Open House and Poster Session at the ACS Spring National Meeting in New Orleans

Todd Yeates' Science paper on bacterial microcompartments in UCLA News

Omar Yaghi's 2008 Science paper on selective capture of CO₂ is highlighted in UCLA News

Omar Yaghi and colleagues awarded AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for their extraordinary 2007 paper in Science

Eric Scerri's book The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance is "outstanding academic title for 2007"

Seaborg Symposium and Medal Presentation Dinner

Steven Clarke and Miguel Garcia-Garibay are elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Sabeeha Merchant's Science paper on the Chlamydomonas genome in UCLA News

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Research

Biographical Data and Research Summaries of the Faculty

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Bioinformatics

DOE Lab Molecular Biology Institute (MBI)

California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program

Materials Creation Training Program (MCTP)

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Chemistry/Material Science
Chemistry Computing Labs
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Contact

Telephone: +1-310-825-4219	Fax: +1-310-206-4038
Postal Address UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 607 Charles E. Young Drive East Box 951569 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569	Electronic Mail General Information: info@chem.ucla.edu Graduate Office: gradinfo@chem.ucla.edu Undergraduate Office: ugrad@chem.ucla.edu Chair's Office: chair@chem.ucla.edu


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