On June 9, 2025, we celebrated the many accomplishments of our alumni, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff at our annual departmental awards ceremony. Each year at this event, we […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Second-year biochemistry undergraduate Abhiram Singh is one of four UCLA students to be named Goldwater Scholars in 2025. The prestigious national scholarship supports students who show promise of being part of the next […]