Professor Soumitra Athavale has been awarded a highly prestigious Early Stage Investigator Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (ESI MIRA) R35 grant from the National Institutes of Health / National Institute of […]

First year Materials and Nanoscience graduate student Stéphane Miaule (Tolbert group) has been awarded the 2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s most prestigious […]

Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2026 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation […]

On March 13, 2026, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry honored Professor Richard Kaner (UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) with the 2026 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal in recognition of […]

Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor in Polymer Science and associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, has been awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. […]

Professor David Eisenberg has been awarded the 2026 Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “for his discoveries of amyloid fibril structures of relevance for […]

A short video featuring Professor Paul Weiss giving a tour of his office for UCLA College’s “UCLA Office Hours” series has received hundreds of thousands of views and likes on […]

By Ben Paul, UCLA Division of Physical Sciences A growing culture of entrepreneurship is reshaping how UCLA chemists think about discovery, impact, and their role beyond the lab. When Mike […]