Craig Merlic’s safety paper selected as an Editor’s Choice article by ACS
1 year ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Faculty
Professor Craig Merlic’s latest safety paper, “Challenges of Legacy Chemicals”, was selected as an Editor’s Choice article by the American Chemical Society. Of over 53,000 articles published annually in more […]
Michael Jung receives the ACS MEDI 2025 Edward E. Smissman Award
1 year ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Faculty
Distinguished Professor Michael E. Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, is named the recipient of the 2025 Edward E. Smissman Award, given by the American Chemical […]
Anastassia Alexandrova awarded the QBIC Prize for 2024
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Faculty
Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been honored with the 2024 Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (QBIC) Prize for her groundbreaking research on the role of electrostatics in enzymatic catalysis. This prestigious award recognizes […]
Layered Hybrid Superlattices: A New Frontier in Designing Quantum Materials by Marrying Layered Crystals with Versatile Chemical Molecules
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Research
A new paper titled “Layered hybrid superlattices as designable quantum solids” by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Zhong Wan and co-authors, recently published in Nature, introduces an exciting advancement […]
Prineha Narang receives nearly $2 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Faculty
From UCLA Newsroom (by Jonathan Riggs): Prineha Narang, UCLA professor of physical sciences and of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a nearly $2 million grant from the Gordon […]
Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Faculty
Professors Xiangfeng Duan and David Eisenberg have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2024 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Comprising nearly 7,000 researchers from around […]
2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Education
- Research
- Student
Third-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been accepted into the new UCLA Science & Food Future of Food Fellows Program. The inaugural UCLA Future […]
SMACS receives ACS GCI Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award
2 years ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Student
- Undergraduate
The UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) receives an outstanding performance rating from the ACS – a rarity among Tier 1 research universities – as well as […]