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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]