Two faculty-graduate student teams led by Professors Soumitra Athavale and Victoria Barber have received funding through a new $1.4 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. Professor Soumitra Athavale, who […]

Professor Kalli Kappel was presented with the 2026 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn T. Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on May 8.      The event, held at […]

A team of researchers led by Professor Richard Kaner has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2026 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize in recognition of a collaboration between the Kaner […]

Distinguished Professor Neil Garg, who holds the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry, has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2026 Centenary Prize for “challenging long-standing paradigms […]

Congratulations to Professor Chong Liu on his promotion to full professor, effective July 1, 2026. Since joining UCLA in 2017, Liu has established an internationally recognized research program focused on […]

The Department is delighted to welcome Professor Giulia Palermo, a world-renowned computational biophysicist recognized for her pioneering computational studies of genome editing systems. She will join the UCLA faculty as […]

Distinguished Professor Sarah Tolbert, the Charles and Carolyn Knobler Endowed Term Chair, has been selected for one of UCLA’s highest teaching honors, the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty […]

Department Chair Professor Alexander Spokoyny is one of 18 U.S. academic researchers chosen for the US Defense Science Study Group (DSSG) class of 2027-28. The two-year program introduces outstanding scientists […]