Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

14 chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2023-2024 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students who work within chemistry and biochemistry labs from the BBSB […]

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients
July 28

ACS Representative at COP28 climate meeting in Dubai

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

First-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry to represent the ACS at the […]

ACS Representative at COP28 climate meeting in Dubai
July 21

2023 Graduate Student Commencement Congratulations Video

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

We are excited to share a special video with messages from our faculty, congratulating our recently graduated Ph.D. students! As a tradition that started in 2020, these video messages have […]

2023 Graduate Student Commencement Congratulations Video
July 12

NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduating doctoral student Shreya Patel (Tolbert group) has been awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) to support her work on nanoscale optical materials at […]

NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
July 12

2023 UZH Foundation Brain Diseases Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate student Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang (Eisenberg group) is a winner of the 2023 Brain Diseases Award from the UZH Foundation for his “excellent discovery of TMEM106B as the component […]

2023 UZH Foundation Brain Diseases Award
July 12

UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow

3 years ago

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

Chemistry graduate student Caitlyn Fick (Srivastava group) has been chosen by the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program to teach a lower-division seminar titled, “PFAS, pesticides, and plastics: […]

UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow
July 11

2023 Graduation

3 years ago

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

On June 17, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry hosted this year’s commencement ceremony to celebrate the graduating class of 2023. The ceremony began with the welcome address by […]

2023 Graduation
June 23

2023 Graduate Student Departmental Awards

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Thanks to our generous donors, 56 talented graduate students received departmental awards this year in recognition of their accomplishments in teaching, academics, research, and service. The 2023 Chemistry & Biochemistry […]

2023 Graduate Student Departmental Awards
June 21