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 one year of completing and filing their dissertation. It includes a $30,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees (excluding nonresident tuition). Each year, approximately 200 Dissertation Year Fellowships (DYF) are awarded to UCLA graduate students who are nominated for the fellowship by their department.
This year’s DYF recipients (beginning at top row, left to right) – Nima Adhami (Rodriguez and Spokoyny groups), Angela Agnew (Zhou group), Nesibe Akmansen Kalayci (Tolbert group), William Borrelli (Schwartz group), Belle Coffey (Caram group), Brady Dehnert (Kwon group), Jordan Ford (Clubb group), Jordan Gonzalez (Garg group), Yongjia He (Caram group), Colin Johnson (Tang group), Eric Lin (Sletten group), Ramzi Massad (Li and Diaconescu groups), Emily Mobley (Sletten group), Madeline Ruos (Doyle group), Connor Short (Koehler group), and Lily Taylor (Rodriguez group).
Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penjen@g.ucla.edu.
