2025 Graduate Student Departmental Awards

1 year ago

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  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Events
  • Graduate
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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 […]

2025 Graduate Student Departmental Awards
June 19

2025 Undergraduate Student Departmental Awards

1 year ago

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  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
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  • Undergraduate

Thanks to our generous donors, 42 talented undergraduates received departmental awards this year in recognition of their accomplishments in research and in academics. The 2025 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Departmental […]

2025 Undergraduate Student Departmental Awards
June 19

2025 Undergraduate Research Fellowships

1 year ago

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  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Thanks to our generous donors, 47 undergraduate students will have the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research in our faculty labs as research fellows. The 2025 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Research […]

2025 Undergraduate Research Fellowships
June 18

2025 Commencement Video

1 year ago

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  • Student

On Saturday, June 14, 2025, 37 of our students received Ph.D. degrees, 21 students received Master of Applied Chemical Sciences degrees, six Departmental Scholars received Master of Science degrees, and […]

2025 Commencement Video
June 18

SMACS hosts second annual Undergraduate Poster Session

1 year ago

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  • Research
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

On May 27, 2025, 28 undergraduate students presented posters summarizing their research efforts at the second annual SMACS and UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Poster Session, hosted jointly by the […]

SMACS hosts second annual Undergraduate Poster Session
June 11

Graduate student in the news – Arismel Tena Meza

1 year ago

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  • Graduate
  • Student

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 […]

Graduate student in the news – Arismel Tena Meza
June 10

Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air

1 year ago

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  • Graduate
  • Research
  • Student

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 […]

Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air
June 9

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients

1 year ago

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  • Graduate
  • Student

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 […]

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients
June 5