2023 Senior Foote Fellows
1 week 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 Carolyn and Charles Knobler Lecture
1 week ago
- Events
- Faculty
Professor Vinothan Manoharan (Department of Physics, Harvard University) gave the 7th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on February 27, 2023. The well-attended lecture, entitled “The Self-Assembly of Simple RNA […]

AAAS Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science
2 weeks ago
- Faculty
- Outreach
Professor Neil Garg is the 2023 recipient of the Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, an annual award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science […]

ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) 2023 Rising Star Award
2 weeks ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Faculty
Professor Ellen Sletten has been selected for a 2023 Rising Star Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee (WCC) for her work on new approaches to imaging […]

Remembering Adela Smith
2 weeks ago
- Faculty
We are sad to report that Adela Roberts, widow of UCLA biochemistry professor emeritus Roberts Smith, passed away on December 31, 2021. In May, 2022 Adela’s family had a small […]

Remembering Samantha “Sammy” Theresa Mensah
3 weeks 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 […]

2023 Norma Stoddart Prize
4 weeks ago
- Alumni & Friends
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Events
- Faculty
On February 6, 2023, alumnus Dr. Marco Messina (Ph.D. ’19 Maynard/Spokoyny groups), currently a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, was presented with the 2023 Norma Stoddart Prize for […]

2023 Sloan Research Fellow
1 month ago
- Awards, Grants, & Recognition
- Faculty
Professor Justin Caram is among 126 early-career researchers receiving the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations […]
