Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air

1 year ago

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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

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • 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

Five biochemistry undergraduate students win the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize

1 year ago

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  • Research
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Biochemistry undergraduate student researchers Madison Bang (Su group), Precious Calderon (Vallim group), Helen Elmer (Gelbart group), Peter Fernandez (Koehler group), and Samantha Wu (Rodriguez group) receive the prestigious Science Dean’s […]

Five biochemistry undergraduate students win the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize
May 28

Undergraduate researcher Kasey Parks wins 2025 ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition

1 year ago

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  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Kasey Parks, a third-year chemistry undergraduate in the Schmitt group, is a winner in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) annual Undergraduate Poster Competition.  Parks’ poster, titled “Illuminating […]

Undergraduate researcher Kasey Parks wins 2025 ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition
May 13

Undergraduate researcher Tanya D’Souza receives American Chemical Society DOC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

1 year ago

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  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Biochemistry undergraduate researcher Tanya D’Souza (Conway group) has been named a recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for her research project, “A […]

Undergraduate researcher Tanya D’Souza receives American Chemical Society DOC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
May 12

3D Printing In Vivo Using Sound

1 year ago

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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 […]

3D Printing In Vivo Using Sound
May 12

Three P.D. students receive international graduate scholarships

1 year ago

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  • Graduate
  • Student

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 […]

Three P.D. students receive international graduate scholarships
May 9

UC President Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows

1 year ago

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  • Student

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 […]

UC President Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows
May 2