Faculty and Student in the News – Anne Andrews and Noelle Mitchell

2 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Graduate
  • Student

A “Big Impact Research” video featuring research by Professor Anne Andrews and graduate student Noelle Mitchell has been airing during commercial breaks for televised UCLA football and basketball games in […]

Faculty and Student in the News – Anne Andrews and Noelle Mitchell
November 21

2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow

2 years ago

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

Third-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been accepted into the new UCLA Science & Food Future of Food Fellows Program. The inaugural UCLA Future […]

2024 UCLA Future of Food Fellow
November 15

SMACS receives ACS GCI Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

The UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) receives an outstanding performance rating from the ACS – a rarity among Tier 1 research universities – as well as […]

SMACS receives ACS GCI Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award
November 15

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Ph.D. student Thando Khumalo (NarangLab) is only the second UCLA student in nearly 20 years to receive the prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. A chemistry Ph.D. student, Khumalo joined […]

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
November 15

2024-2025 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate students Andrew Goring (Clubb lab), Eric Pang (S. Clarke and Rodriguez labs), and Miranda Villanueva (Backus lab) have been selected as 2024-2025 Fowler Fellows. About the 2024-25 Audree Fowler […]

2024-2025 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science
November 6

Organic chemists take on “Bredt’s Rule” 100 years later

2 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Graduate
  • Recent Research
  • Research
  • Student

A new study by UCLA organic chemists shows how to create several types of molecules that violate Bredt’s rule, known as anti-Bredt olefins (ABOs). Many modern textbooks and online resources […]

Organic chemists take on “Bredt’s Rule” 100 years later
November 1

Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Student Research in Developing a Novel Computational Method

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate student Robert Lavroff (Alexandrova group) has been awarded the 2024 Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for outstanding research in computational chemistry. Lavroff is one of the five awardees who […]

Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Student Research in Developing a Novel Computational Method
October 30

2024-2025 Chemistry-Biology Interface  (CBI) Fellows

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Four graduate students have been selected as Fellows for the long-running Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Grant at UCLA, while two have been chosen as Associate trainees. The Fellows are Izaiah […]

2024-2025 Chemistry-Biology Interface  (CBI) Fellows
October 29