IEEE Nanotechnology Council Best PhD Thesis Award in Nanotechnology

3 years ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition

Alumnus Dr. Chuanzhen Zhao (M.S. ’17 chemistry, Ph.D. ’20 materials chemistry P. Weiss and A. Andrews groups) is the recipient of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) […]

IEEE Nanotechnology Council Best PhD Thesis Award in Nanotechnology
July 20

2023 Ono Breakthrough Science Initiative Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Keriann Backus has been named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation to support her research on chemoproteogenomic approaches to guide immunomodulatory […]

2023 Ono Breakthrough Science Initiative Award
July 14

2023 Graduate Student Commencement Congratulations Video

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

We are excited to share a special video with messages from our faculty, congratulating our recently graduated Ph.D. students! As a tradition that started in 2020, these video messages have […]

2023 Graduate Student Commencement Congratulations Video
July 12

NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduating doctoral student Shreya Patel (Tolbert group) has been awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) to support her work on nanoscale optical materials at […]

NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
July 12

2023 UZH Foundation Brain Diseases Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate student Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang (Eisenberg group) is a winner of the 2023 Brain Diseases Award from the UZH Foundation for his “excellent discovery of TMEM106B as the component […]

2023 UZH Foundation Brain Diseases Award
July 12

UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Education
  • Graduate
  • Student

Chemistry graduate student Caitlyn Fick (Srivastava group) has been chosen by the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program to teach a lower-division seminar titled, “PFAS, pesticides, and plastics: […]

UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow
July 11

2023 Graduation

3 years ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

On June 17, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry hosted this year’s commencement ceremony to celebrate the graduating class of 2023. The ceremony began with the welcome address by […]

2023 Graduation
June 23

2023 Gold Shield Faculty Prize

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been awarded the 2023 Gold Shield Faculty Prize. The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research and service. From […]

2023 Gold Shield Faculty Prize
June 23