Third-year chemistry undergraduate researcher Laurie Tan (Caram group) is one of two UCLA students to be named Goldwater Scholars in 2022.  The prestigious national scholarship supports students who show promise […]

UCLA’s chemistry and biochemistry graduate degree programs are among the best in the nation, according to US News & World Report’s Best Graduate School rankings.  The UCLA Department of Chemistry […]

Professor Paula Diaconescu has been awarded an American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) Oilfield Chemistry Roundtable Grant. An inorganic chemist at UCLA since 2005, Professor Paula Diaconescu‘s research […]

PhD student Austin Ready (Spokoyny lab) has been selected for the AFRL 2022 Space Scholars Program to work on the design, fabrication, characterization, and development of functional coatings and materials […]

Alumnus Cooper Jamieson (PhD ’21, Houk/Tang groups) has been selected to participate in the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June 2022.  Jamieson was selected as one of the 600 […]

1st year chemistry PhD student and 3rd year DGSOM MD-PhD student Eric Lin (Sletten lab) receives Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship.  The prestigious TRDRP predoctoral fellowship is awarded to those […]

Graduate student Andrew Dawson (Tolbert group) has been named a 2022 CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellow, serving on the Senate Housing Committee. Dawson, a native Californian, studies materials that […]

We are sad to report that alumnus Dale Joseph Meier (PhD ’51) passed away at the age of 99 on March 12, 2022. A polymer scientist, Dr. Meier received his […]