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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]
