Anastassia Alexandrova awarded the QBIC Prize for 2024

2 months 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 […]

Anastassia Alexandrova awarded the QBIC Prize for 2024
November 25

Layered Hybrid Superlattices: A New Frontier in Designing Quantum Materials by Marrying Layered Crystals with Versatile Chemical Molecules

3 months 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 […]

Layered Hybrid Superlattices: A New Frontier in Designing Quantum Materials by Marrying Layered Crystals with Versatile Chemical Molecules
November 21

Prineha Narang receives nearly $2 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

3 months 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 […]

Prineha Narang receives nearly $2 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
November 20

Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List

3 months 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 […]

Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List
November 19

2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow

3 months 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 […]

2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow
November 15

SMACS receives ACS GCI Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award

3 months 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 […]

SMACS receives ACS GCI Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award
November 15

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

3 months 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

3 months 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