PhD student Samantha Mensah (Andrews/P Weiss labs) has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2021 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award.  According to the Academic Senate’s DEI website, the prestigious award is given to just one graduate student each year in order “to honor those who have motivated other members […]

Undergraduate researcher Samantha “Sam” Vi-Tang (Kaner group) is one of two UCLA students selected as 2021-2022 Beckman Scholars.   The 2021-22 Beckman Research Scholarship at UCLA is awarded to outstanding undergraduate researchers committed to completing a thesis project under the supervision of select UCLA Beckman Faculty. The $18,200 award will be distributed over one academic year […]

Postdoctoral Scholars Lucía Fernandez-del-Rio (Catherine Clarke group) and Zipeng Zhao (Yu Huang and Xiaofeng Duan groups) receive the 2021 UCLA Chancellor’s $7,500 Awards for Postdoctoral Research.   The award honors UCLA’s postdoctoral scholars for their important contributions to the university’s interrelated missions of research, teaching, and service. Lucía Fernández del Río and Zhao were recognized at the 2021 […]

The American Chemical Society (ACS) paid tribute to the accomplishments of UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter in a special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. Carter is a Distinguished Professor in the UCLA Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry. The March 4, 2021 special issue, titled […]

In her new paper, Dr Roshini Ramachandran discusses the teaching practices and pedagogical strategies that she used in her Fall 2020 CHEM 3: Material World general education course. In the course Ramachandran utilized high-impact practices to introduce students to the scientific process and impart skills of critical thinking and scientific communication. Course activities and assignments […]

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Cheng-Wei Lin are part of the UCLA team to win the grand prize in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE global competition.  By mitigating the carbon footprint of concrete, the team’s invention could eventually be a major step in the global battle against climate change. Kaner and Lin provided advice on […]

We are pleased to honor eminent UCLA biochemist Emeritus Professor Daniel Atkinson who turned 100 on April 8, 2021. Dan was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska and did his undergraduate work at the University of Nebraska, followed a Ph.D. at Iowa State University. He was a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology and a […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students Francisco Galang and Kylie Williams have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. Each year this honor is awarded to up to nine […]