2024 Commencement Video

2 years ago

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On Saturday, June 15, 2024, 37 of our students received Ph.D. degrees, 16 students received Master of Applied Chemical Sciences degrees, five Departmental Scholars received Master of Science degrees, and […]

2024 Commencement Video
June 19

2024 Graduate Student Departmental Awards

2 years ago

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Thanks to our generous donors, 69 talented graduate students received departmental awards this year in recognition of their accomplishments in teaching, academics, research, and/or service. The 2024 Chemistry & Biochemistry […]

2024 Graduate Student Departmental Awards
June 17

2024 Mautner Perkins Memorial Lecture Series and Graduate Awards

2 years ago

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In early May 2024, Professor Omar Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley, visited UCLA to deliver the Mautner Perkins Memorial Lectures, including a scientific lecture and a public lecture. […]

2024 Mautner Perkins Memorial Lecture Series and Graduate Awards
June 12

SMACS second Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Student-Faculty Mixer

2 years ago

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On the morning of March 15, 2024, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, graduate students, and eager undergraduates gathered in Boyer Hall 159 for a student-faculty mixer, hosted by UCLA’s Student […]

SMACS second Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Student-Faculty Mixer
May 29

Breakthrough study reveals edge sites on platinum nanostructures as key active sites for efficient hydrogen production

2 years ago

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In a study just published in Nature Catalysis, a research collaboration between Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professor Yu Huang’s group in the […]

Breakthrough study reveals edge sites on platinum nanostructures as key active sites for efficient hydrogen production
May 27

AFRL Space Scholars Program

2 years ago

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Ph.D. student Victoria Rubio (Spokoyny lab) has been selected for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 2024 Space Scholars Program to work on the synthesis and characterization of polymer films […]

AFRL Space Scholars Program
May 14

Genomic Analysis and Interpretation Training Program Fellowship

2 years ago

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Graduate student Lajoyce Mboning (Bouchard/Pellegrini groups) has been awarded a Genomic Analysis and Interpretation Program (GATP) Fellowship for 2024-25. Mboning is a third-year chemistry and biochemistry, theory and computation graduate […]

Genomic Analysis and Interpretation Training Program Fellowship
May 9

2024 Senior Foote Fellows

2 years ago

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Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Jordan Gonzalez (Garg lab), Daniel Seungwook Min (Doyle lab), Madeline Ruos (Doyle lab), and Georgia Scherer (Garg lab) have been named the 2024 Senior Foote […]

2024 Senior Foote Fellows
May 1