Congratulations to our current and former students who have received prestigious 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards and Honorable Mentions. 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) were awarded to graduate students Nadine Bradbury (Neuhauser group), Ana Bulger (Garg group), Claire Dickerson (Alexandrova group), David Pe (Tolbert group), Kelly Wong (Sletten group), and Laura Wonilowicz […]

This week we shine a spotlight on alumna MIT biologist and president of The Protein Society, Professor Amy Keating (PhD ’98 Houk/García-Garibay groups).  A Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Keating’s research involves working to understand how protein sequences and structures encode interaction specificity. Her lab uses computational […]

BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes fourth article for ASBMB Today magazine as part of their contributor program.   Lynn’s article titled “I smell a winner: Linking plant olfactory stimuli to genetic regulation – Meet a JBC Herbert Tabor Early Career Investigator Award winner” was featured in the March 15 ,2021 issue of ASBMB Today, the member magazine of […]

92 years ago today, Chemistry 1A was the first class ever taught at UCLA’s Westwood campus. On March 18, 1929, the first chemistry class met at UCLA’s Westwood campus, six months before the official opening of the campus. The 125 students enrolled in Professor Hosmer W. Stone’s Chemistry 1A were the first to receive instruction. The […]

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 […]