The 2023 Oesper Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, is the recipient of the 2023 Oesper Award presented by the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Chemistry and the […]

The 2023 Oesper Award
November 2

Futures 100 Innovators Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Chemical biology graduate student AJ Addae (Paul S. Weiss group) wins second place in the 2023 Future 100 Innovators Awards. Each month in 2023 The Future Laboratory analysts chose 10 […]

Futures 100 Innovators Award
October 30

$250,000 grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Professor Danielle Schmitt and collaborator Professor Tara TeSlaa (UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology) have been awarded $250,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to investigate why diets deficient in choline and […]

$250,000 grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
October 30

Advancing non-addictive cannabis-based pain relief for oral cancer patients

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Research

Professor Alexander Spokoyny and Dr. James Tilden are part of a UCLA Dentistry–led team to receive a $5 million NIH HEAL initiative federal grant to develop an effective, non-addictive synthetic […]

Advancing non-addictive cannabis-based pain relief for oral cancer patients
October 25

$4.5 million DOE award establishes new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Sarah Tolbert is the Center Director of the new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA, which aims to make sodium ion batteries a marketable commodity.  […]

$4.5 million DOE award establishes new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA
October 20

$1.5M National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Professor Danielle Schmitt receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.  The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, disbursed over a […]

$1.5M National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award
October 3

GEM Conference Technical Presentation Prize

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Yessica Nelson, a fourth-year inorganic chemistry graduate student from the Spokoyny group, received the first prize in the technical presentation competition for advanced Ph.D. students at the 47th Annual Board […]

GEM Conference Technical Presentation Prize
September 26

U.S. News & World Report Annual Rankings

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Rankings

UCLA has been named the nation’s top public university in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings. The campus has now held the No. 1 spot for […]

U.S. News & World Report Annual Rankings
September 22