Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been selected for one of UCLA’s highest teaching honors, the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty. Spokoyny is one of six campus-wide recipients chosen by the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Teaching for the award which recognizes academically and professionally accomplished individuals who bring respect and admiration to the scholarship […]

The García-Garibay, Garg, and Houk research groups explored the synthesis of challenging structural motifs with  photochemical reactions in crystals. An experimental team led by Dr. Jordan Dotson, recent joint graduate student in the Garcia-Garibay and Garg groups, has joined with computational graduate student, Ieva Liepuoniute in the García-Garibay and Houk groups, to show how solid-state photochemistry can […]

Undergraduate researchers Luke Elissiry, Garrett Kukier and Andy Nguyen receive awards at the 2021 Koret UC LEADS Research and Leadership Symposium. The online symposium took place on Saturday, March 6, 2021. “These scholars competed against many talented individuals from across the state, so this is no small feat,” said Dr. Fernando Gomez, Assistant Director, UCLA Undergraduate Research Center […]

Students from Dr Laurence Lavelle’s 14B classes thoroughly enjoyed a fun “Karaoke Night w/ DJ Lavelle” virtual event and contest on March 6th.  Students from Lavelle’s Winter 2021 Chem 14B class attended the free online event, which was organized by six students in his class. Gift cards were awarded to the top contestants whose scores were […]

In honor of International Women’s Day 2021, BMSB graduate student Xiaofei ‘Fay’ Lin is profiled by the UCLA International Institute and UCLA Newsroom.  Lin is a 5th year Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) Ph.D. student conducting research in Professor Alexander Hoffmann’s group as a Cellular and Molecular Biology Trainee. In March 2019, Fay created her Twitter platform (@xiaofei_lin) focusing […]

On Monday evening, March 8, Professor Heather Maynard will be featured speaker at Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society special event. A worldwide leader in the area of protein-polymer conjugates, which are important therapeutics for a variety of diseases, Maynard holds UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science. At the […]

Professor Michael Jung, the UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry, is co-leader of UCLA team working to develop a new drug to treat multiple sclerosis.   A distinguished professor of chemistry and Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA, Jung is a worldwide leader in the field of synthetic […]

Professor Joseph Loo has been chosen for the 2021 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry. The EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry session, honoring Loo, will be held this November at the Crowne Plaza Princeton Conference Center in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Nov 15-17, 2021.    An expert in the mass spectrometry […]