A UCLA research team led by Professor Prineha Narang, and comprised of multiple California NanoSystems Institute members, has been awarded a $650,000 National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator Phase 1 Award for […]

A generous donation by Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Juli Feigon has established an annual UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Helping Hands Award.   The Juli Feigon Helping Hands Award is an […]

Lisa Boatner, a fourth-year graduate student in the Backus/Houk research groups, has been awarded the prestigious Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) 2023 Rising Star in Computational Mass Spectrometry Award. FeMS […]

Dr. Steven Jonas, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and postdoctoral alumnus of the Paul S. Weiss group, has been honored with the 2024 Society for Pediatric Research Young Investigator Award. In […]

Assistant Researcher Dr. Maher El-Kady is one of three young scientists in the field of energy storage materials chosen for the prestigious Energy Storage Materials (EnSM) Young Scientist Award in […]

Fourth-year inorganic chemistry graduate student Yessica Nelson (Spokoyny group) is one of five outstanding scholars joining the UCLA chapter of the national Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (BGHS) this […]

Ph.D. student Aamir Hassan Shah (Duan group) is one of 15 students nationwide selected for a prestigious Materials Research Society (MRS) 2023 Fall Meeting Graduate Student Silver Award. Selection for […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan and Paul S. Weiss have been elected as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The academy’s fellowship honors inventors at academic institutions who have “demonstrated […]