2025 Tillman Scholar

5 days ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Chemistry Ph.D. candidate and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Jason Q.L. Williams (P. Weiss group) is named a Tillman Scholar for the class of 2025. Williams is among an elite group […]

2025 Tillman Scholar
July 10

Ph.D. candidate AJ Addae gives TEDx talk

6 days ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Chemical biology Ph.D. candidate  AJ Addae (P. Weiss/Caram groups) recently delivered a TEDx talk highlighting her journey in using scientific research to close inclusivity gaps in the beauty industry by […]

Ph.D. candidate AJ Addae gives TEDx talk
July 9

2025 Arnold J. Berk Research Achievement Award

1 week ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

BMSB graduate student Lily Taylor (Rodriguez group) is the 2025 graduate student recipient of the Arnold J. Berk Research Achievement Award, presented by the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) at UCLA. […]

2025 Arnold J. Berk Research Achievement Award
July 8

2025 Distinguished Teaching Award

2 weeks ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Ph.D. student Caitlyn Fick (Srivastava group) is one of only five UCLA Ph.D. students selected for the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. According to the Academic Senate Committee […]

2025 Distinguished Teaching Award
July 2

2025 Commencement Ceremony

2 weeks ago

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  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Events
  • Graduate
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

On June 14, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry hosted this year’s commencement ceremony to celebrate the graduating class of 2025. At the ceremony, 37 of our students received […]

2025 Commencement Ceremony
July 2

UCLA honors alumnus with long-awaited doctoral hooding ceremony

3 weeks ago

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

Alumnus Dr. Thomas Scott Griffin was finally hooded at the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry commencement ceremony on June 14, 2025—more than five decades after earning his Ph.D. in […]

UCLA honors alumnus with long-awaited doctoral hooding ceremony
June 27

2025 Commencement Awards

3 weeks ago

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

Each year at commencement, we recognize our graduate, master’s, and undergraduate students for their accomplishments in academics and research. The following 2025 Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Awards were presented to […]

2025 Commencement Awards
June 27

UCLA researchers achieve antibiotic breakthrough with support from NSF-Funded BioPACIFIC MIP

3 weeks ago

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  • Graduate
  • Recent Research
  • Research
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Professors Heather Maynard, Irene Chen, Abigail Doyle, José Rodriguez, and Yi Tang, along with members of their research groups, are part of a team that has successfully synthesized analogs of […]

UCLA researchers achieve antibiotic breakthrough with support from NSF-Funded BioPACIFIC MIP
June 25