Ph.D. candidate Kodi Thurber receives 2025 SSRL Scientific Development Award

9 months ago

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Materials chemistry graduate student Kodi Thurber (Tolbert group) has been awarded the 2025 Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Scientific Development Award for his development of a novel battery cell that […]

Ph.D. candidate Kodi Thurber receives 2025 SSRL Scientific Development Award
October 2

New stretchable light-emitting material holds promise for photon-based devices

9 months ago

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Professor Xiangfeng Duan and graduate student Boxuan Zhou (Materials Science and Engineering) lead a research team that has developed a durable, low-cost, printable light-emitting membrane from ultrathin molybdenum disulfide and […]

New stretchable light-emitting material holds promise for photon-based devices
September 26

Graduate Student in the News – Anastasia Pipi

9 months ago

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Physics Ph.D. candidate Anastasia Pipi (Narang group) is featured in UCLA Newsroom article discussing her quantum science research. In the article, Pipi, who conducts research in Professor Prineha Narang’s group, […]

Graduate Student in the News – Anastasia Pipi
September 11

Graduate student in the news – Jason Williams

10 months ago

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Chemistry Ph.D. candidate, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Tillman Scholar, and facilitator for Veterans in STEM, Jason Q.L. Williams (P. Weiss group), is featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article about […]

Graduate student in the news – Jason Williams
August 19

UCLA scientists break imaging barrier to unlock secrets of deadly “chaotic” viruses

11 months ago

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A team of researchers at UCLA, led by Professor Jose Rodriguez and BMSB Ph.D. candidate Lily Taylor, in collaboration with Professors Gustavo Helguera (YBIME, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Brian Gowen (USU […]

UCLA scientists break imaging barrier to unlock secrets of deadly “chaotic” viruses
July 22

Ph.D. candidate Gabriella Cooper presents lecture at the 2025 ACS Organic Chemistry Symposium

11 months ago

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Organic chemistry Ph.D. candidate Gabriella Cooper (Harran Group) was among 25 rising fifth-year graduate students selected from across the United States to present their research at the 2025 ACS Division […]

Ph.D. candidate Gabriella Cooper presents lecture at the 2025 ACS Organic Chemistry Symposium
July 22

2025 Tillman Scholar

11 months ago

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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

11 months ago

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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