UCLA scientists co-lead DOE project to develop aqueous batteries

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Sarah Tolbert is co-leading a team of three UCLA faculty members in the newly launched Aqueous Battery Consortium, which aims to develop next-generation rechargeable batteries using water-based electrolytes. From […]

UCLA scientists co-lead DOE project to develop aqueous batteries
September 30

Ellen Sletten receives Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Ellen Sletten and longtime collaborator Professor Oliver Bruns (NCT/UCC Dresden) have received the prestigious Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024. Sletten and Bruns are being recognized for developing an innovative […]

Ellen Sletten receives Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024
September 26

Benjamin Schwartz gives Hush Lecture 2024 at the University of Sydney

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Benjamin Schwartz recently delivered the 2024 Hush Lecture, titled “The Role of the Solvent in Chemical Identity, Chemical Reactivity, and Quantum Decoherence,” at the University of Sydney, Australia, on […]

Benjamin Schwartz gives Hush Lecture 2024 at the University of Sydney
September 26

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

This year, 11 chemistry and biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2024-2025 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students from the MBIDP and MIMG programs, working in […]

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients
September 5

Abigail Doyle named to Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Abigail Doyle, the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, has been named to the Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list for her contributions in organic chemistry and computational […]

Abigail Doyle named to Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list
September 3

Paul S. Weiss named recipient of the 2024 Sigma Xi Procter Prize

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Paul S. Weiss has been named the recipient of the 2024 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. Since 1950, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement has been awarded […]

Paul S. Weiss named recipient of the 2024 Sigma Xi Procter Prize
August 28

UCLA receives $1 million NSF grant to accelerate commercialization of quantum technologies

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Professor Prineha Narang is part of a team of UCLA researchers that has received a one-year, $1 million grant as part of a new National Science Foundation program aimed at […]

UCLA receives $1 million NSF grant to accelerate commercialization of quantum technologies
August 28

Keriann Backus wins 2024 ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Award

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Keriann Backus has won the annual International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist Award. Backus will deliver her award lecture, titled “Defining the functional cysteinome with multidimensional chemoproteomics,” […]

Keriann Backus wins 2024 ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Award
August 27