Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty featured in Highly Cited Researchers 2025 List

11 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, Kendall Houk, Yu Huang, and Richard Kaner have been named to the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2025 list, a recognition of their significant and broad influence in their field.  Since […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty featured in Highly Cited Researchers 2025 List
November 13

Juli Feigon delivers Mendel Lecture

11 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

On October 9, 2025, pioneering structural biologist Distinguished Professor Juli Feigon delivered the Mendel Lecture at the refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno. The lecture took place at the Augustinian […]

Juli Feigon delivers Mendel Lecture
November 12

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant

11 months ago

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  • Faculty

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant Professor Victoria “Tori” Barber has been awarded an Indoor Air Research Award Grant from the American Lung Association. Barber received […]

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant
November 10

Inaugural Jeffrey I. Zink Invited Inorganic Lecture

11 months ago

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Professor Kyoko Nozaki (University of Tokyo), known for her pioneering research in organometallic catalysis and polymer chemistry, visited UCLA on October 15 to give the inaugural Jeffrey I. Zink Invited […]

Inaugural Jeffrey I. Zink Invited Inorganic Lecture
October 30

Paul S. Weiss to serve on editorial advisory board of RSC Applied Interfaces

12 months ago

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  • Faculty

Professor Paul S. Weiss has been appointed to the inaugural editorial advisory board of RSC Applied Interfaces, a new journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In June 2025, […]

Paul S. Weiss to serve on editorial advisory board of RSC Applied Interfaces
October 16

Kalli Kappel appointed as the Linda and Fred Wudl Term Chair

12 months ago

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  • Faculty

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has appointed Professor Kalli Kappel as the Linda and Fred Wudl Term Chair, effective retroactively to July 1, 2025. Established in 2005, the […]

Kalli Kappel appointed as the Linda and Fred Wudl Term Chair
October 16

Five graduate students receive UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) 2025 Fellowship Awards

12 months ago

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  • Graduate
  • Student

Ph.D. candidates Mai Abdusamad, Katarina Cohen, Teagan Dean, Jadyn Malone, and Jack Scully receive UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) 2025 Fellowship Awards to support their cancer research projects. […]

Five graduate students receive UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) 2025 Fellowship Awards
October 10

Justin Caram receives $1.3M Moore Foundation Award

12 months ago

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  • Faculty

Professor Justin Caram has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as a member of the 2025 cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators. He joins 22 other mid-career researchers […]

Justin Caram receives $1.3M Moore Foundation Award
October 9