MIT Technology Review’s list of Innovators Under 35

4 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

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 […]

MIT Technology Review’s list of Innovators Under 35
March 23

2023 Senior Foote Fellows

4 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

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 […]

2023 Senior Foote Fellows
March 16

Remembering Samantha “Sammy” Theresa Mensah

4 years ago

  • Graduate
  • Student

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 […]

Remembering Samantha “Sammy” Theresa Mensah
March 3

The role of alkali metal cations in the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

4 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Graduate
  • Recent Research
  • Research
  • Student

A collaborative research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group and Professor Anastassia N. Alexandrova’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor Yu Huang’s group in […]

February 7

2022 Taylor M. Brown Award

4 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate student Troy Lowe (S. Clarke group) has been awarded the 2022 Taylor M. Brown Award. The Taylor M. Brown Award recognizes exceptional Ph.D. […]

2022 Taylor M. Brown Award
January 6

Chemical Computing Group, Inc. (CCG) Excellence Award

4 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate student Zisheng Zhang (Alexandrova group) receives competitive Chemical Computing Group, Inc. (CCG) Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding graduate research, character and service within the community. In addition […]

November 16

2022-2023 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science

4 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate students Cody Gillman (Gonen lab), Declan Evans (Houk lab), Troy Lowe (Backus lab), Ashley Julio (Backus lab), and Alex Stevens (Hong Zhou lab) have been selected as 2022-2023 Fowler […]

Fowler Fellows 2022
October 27

New monthly meeting for UCLA theory graduate students and postdocs

4 years ago

  • Events
  • Graduate
  • Student

Biscuits, in TEA-ory is a monthly event conceived by graduate students in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry with support from Professor Anastassia Alexandrova, the faculty advisor for the […]

October 11