DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Ph.D. student Thando Khumalo (NarangLab) is only the second UCLA student in nearly 20 years to receive the prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. A chemistry Ph.D. student, Khumalo joined […]

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
November 15

2024-2025 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate students Andrew Goring (Clubb lab), Eric Pang (S. Clarke and Rodriguez labs), and Miranda Villanueva (Backus lab) have been selected as 2024-2025 Fowler Fellows. About the 2024-25 Audree Fowler […]

2024-2025 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science
November 6

Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Student Research in Developing a Novel Computational Method

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate student Robert Lavroff (Alexandrova group) has been awarded the 2024 Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for outstanding research in computational chemistry. Lavroff is one of the five awardees who […]

Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Student Research in Developing a Novel Computational Method
October 30

Professor Matthew Nava receives two prestigious awards

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Matthew Nava is one of the recipients of the inaugural Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials awards, and he has also received an American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research […]

Professor Matthew Nava receives two prestigious awards
October 29

2024-2025 Chemistry-Biology Interface  (CBI) Fellows

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Four graduate students have been selected as Fellows for the long-running Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Grant at UCLA, while two have been chosen as Associate trainees. The Fellows are Izaiah […]

2024-2025 Chemistry-Biology Interface  (CBI) Fellows
October 29

Faculty in the News

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Outreach
  • Research

Adjunct professor of chemistry, longtime fire fighter, and UCLA alumnus Derek Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’22 Chemistry, Alexandrova group) is featured in a UC Newsroom article about […]

Faculty in the News
October 29

UCLA students showcase research at the 2024 SoCal TheoChem Conference

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Four UCLA students from Chemistry & Biochemistry labs won poster awards at the annual Southern California conference on theoretical chemistry (SoCalTheoChem) hosted at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) […]

UCLA students showcase research at the 2024 SoCal TheoChem Conference
October 25

Alumni News – Dr. Edward Mena

2 years ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition

Alumnus Dr. Edward Mena, M.D., ’94, Medical Director of the Pasadena Liver Center—a multi-disciplinary treatment facility—and founder of the California Liver Research Institute (CLRI), a nonprofit dedicated to advancing liver […]

Alumni News – Dr. Edward Mena
October 23