Undergraduate researcher Cecilia “Ceci” McCormick (Spokoyny group) has been selected for the prestigious 2023-24 UCLA Beckman Scholars Program. The 2023-24 Beckman Research Scholarship at UCLA is awarded to outstanding undergraduate […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students Tim Duong (Neuhauser group) and Daniel Torres Pomares (Spokoyny group) have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program. The University of California Leadership Excellence […]

Graduate student Aamir Hassan Shah (Duan group) has been selected to receive the prestigious Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award for 2022-23.   Since 1981, only four […]

Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate […]

UCLA Newsroom features in-depth article about chemistry Ph.D. student AJ Addae (P. Weiss group), whose cosmetic research and development lab, which she founded before coming to UCLA, develops skincare products […]

Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s list of Innovators Under 35 (IU35) Japan for his development of a “next-generation battery” that does […]

Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Jacob Kim (Kwon lab), Andrew Palmer (Backus lab), and Arismel Tena-Meza (Garg lab) have been named the 2023 Senior Foote Fellows. The Senior Foote Fellowships […]

Samantha (Sammy) Mensah – talented scientist, passionate activist, co-founder of BlackInChem, and UCLA Bruin – passed away on February 22, 2023. Sammy was a 6th-year chemistry graduate student in the […]