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Giulia Palermo receives NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

Palermo is a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar and has received several prestigious honors, including the Corwin Hansch Award ...
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2026-2027 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science

Graduate students Lenka Milojević (Zhou group), Akshaya Narayanasamy (Lindert group), Sarah Singleton (Conway group), and Janet Zhong (Feigon group) have been selected as 2026–27 Fowler Fellows and ...
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Paul S. Weiss named 2026 Sigma Xi Fellow

Distinguished Professor and UC Presidential Chair Paul S. Weiss has been selected as a 2026 Fellow of Sigma Xi in recognition of his exemplary career investigating chemistry, nanoscience, ...
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Faculty & Research

Insulating Out-of-Plane Transport in Anisotropic Metals: The Case of Sr2⁢RuO4 and Related Layered Oxides ...
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Liu, Chong

Chong received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Fudan University, China, where he synthesized mesoporous materials with Prof. Dongyuan Zhao. He then pursued his graduate research at University of ...
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Recent Publications

2026-10-28 | Lactonization of (-)-Quinic acid – Org. Synth. Lauren Q. Van Auken, Benjamin A. Janda, Georgia M. Scherer, Konstantin Günther, Jakub Brześkiewicz ...
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Fay, Thomas

Tom grew up in the UK, where he also studied for his undergraduate Masters in Chemistry (MChem) at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2016. He continued to obtain an MSc in Theory and Modelling ...
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Fall 2026 Distinguished Lecture by Professor Chad A. Mirkin

Photos by Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penjen@g.ucla.edu.
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Omar Yaghi wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Omar M. Yaghi, a former professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA who is currently the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in ...
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How UCLA scientists helped reimagine a forgotten battery design from Thomas Edison

A little-known fact: In the year 1900, electric cars outnumbered gas-powered ones on the American road. The lead-acid auto battery of the time, courtesy of Thomas Edison, was expensive and had a range ...
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UCLA organic chemists’ research on the Soai reaction cited in the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Key research by UCLA organic chemists Professor Soumitra Athavale and Distinguished Research Professor Kendall Houk on the mechanism of the Soai reaction was cited in the scientific background ...
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Organic chemists take on “Bredt’s Rule” 100 years later

A new study by UCLA organic chemists shows how to create several types of molecules that violate Bredt’s rule, known as anti-Bredt olefins (ABOs). Many modern textbooks and online resources describe ...