First-year chemistry graduate student AJ Addae (P. Weiss group) has been selected to receive a prestigious 2023-24 UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship (GCDF). The purpose of the Graduate Council Diversity […]

Fifth-year chemical biology Ph.D. student Hayden Montgomery (Maynard/Spokoyny groups) has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2022-23 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award. According to […]

Alumna Dr. Morgan Howe (Ph.D. ’19, Garcia-Garibay group) has joined the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry as a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education Research Fellow. In her […]

Materials chemistry graduate student Omar Leon (Schwartz group) has been selected to receive a prestigious 2020-21 UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship. The purpose of the Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship (GCDF) […]

Professor Hosea Nelson and PhD students Sophia King and Ani Mustafa quoted in article discussing how chemists are acting against racism and inequality in STEM.  Nelson is an assistant professor […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry stands with the Black Lives Matter movement.  The past and present murders of African Americans, and the skewed way the COVID-19 pandemic has […]

The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science honors Jorge Torres for his lifelong commitment to mentoring students. Torres received the organization’s 2019 Outstanding College/University Mentor […]

Juli Feigon, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and National Academy of Sciences member, receives the 2020 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Research Award.  Feigon was the first female assistant professor in the […]