Thanks to our generous donors, 124 talented graduate students received departmental awards this year in recognition of their accomplishments in teaching, academics, research, and/or service. The 2025 Chemistry & Biochemistry […]

Arismel ‘Ari’ Tena Meza, a soon-to-graduate Ph.D. student in organic chemistry from the Garg group, is profiled in the UCLA Newsroom. From UCLA Newsroom (by Ben Paul): Arismel Tena Meza […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is co-leader of a research team that has developed a method for creating cement precursors from carbon dioxide.  Alexandrova holds the Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair in […]

This year, 16 chemistry and biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2025-2026 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within […]

Professor Paul S. Weiss, graduate student Jason Williams, and two Weiss group alumni are part of a research team that has developed an imaging-guided ultrasound 3D printing platform. This technology […]

Graduate students Arwen Ying Cai (Alexandrova and Diaconescu groups), Calvin Ho (Doyle group), and Samuel Hugie (Doyle group) have been awarded prestigious international graduate scholarships. Cai and Hugie received the […]

Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Haleh Alimohamadi (Wong group), and graduate students Yongjia He (Caram group), Luca McDermott Catena (Garg group), and Yessica Nelson (Spokoyny group), have been selected for the 2025 […]

Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Flora Fan (Doyle lab), Zach Walters (Garg lab), and Qingyang Zhou (Houk lab) have been named the 2025 Senior Foote Fellows. The Senior Foote Fellowships […]