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 […]

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 […]

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 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 Commencement Ceremony
2 weeks ago
- Alumni & Friends
- 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

UCLA researchers achieve antibiotic breakthrough with support from NSF-Funded BioPACIFIC MIP
3 weeks ago
- Faculty
- Graduate
- Recent Research
- Research
- Student
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 […]
