Prineha Narang receives nearly $2 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
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 […]