2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition Finalist

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Materials chemistry graduate student Amir Nasajpour (P. Weiss group) has been selected as one of the finalists to compete in the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Washington, D.C. next month. […]

2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition Finalist
September 21

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