This year’s annual Organic Graduate Symposium on Friday, June 12, 2020, featured online research talks by 13 chemistry graduate students, and two alums.  The annual Organic Graduate Symposium provides a forum for organic chemistry graduate students, who are within one year of obtaining their Ph.D., to present their dissertation research at UCLA to their peers, […]

Materials chemistry graduate student Omar Leon (Schwartz group) has been selected to receive a prestigious 2020-21 UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship. The purpose of the Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship (GCDF) is to support UCLA graduate students who exemplify values of diversity in their academic, professional, and service activities. Omar’s fellowship will be for the 2020-21 […]

Postdoctoral Researcher Lucía Fernández del Río, from Professor Catherine Clarke’s group, receives one of three 2020 Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Awards. At the June 9 online event, Fernández del Río was recognized for her research on Coenzyme Q Transportation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the Clarke group. To learn more about the Clarke group’s research, visit their website. […]

True Bruin alumna and UC Merced assistant professor Yue “Jessica” Wang (BS ’08, PhD ’14 Kaner group) named winner of 2020 Beckman Young Investigator Award. Wang received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from UCLA in 2008 and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry under the direction of Professor Richard Kaner in 2014. She received the 2015 […]

Neil Garg and alumni Luis Campos and Will Dichtel named National Finalists for the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The thirty-one finalists, chosen from a pool of 305 nominated researchers aged 42 years or younger, are considered to be some of America’s most important young scientists driving the next generation of innovation by […]

Ohyun Kwon wins the prestigious 2019-2020 McCoy Award, which recognizes the greatest contribution of the year to the science of chemistry and biochemistry.   Professor Ohyun Kwon has discovered a new very general reaction, the hydrodealkenylation, a reaction that clips a propenyl group or other alkenyl group off and replaces it with an H. (A propenyl […]

Professor Hosea Nelson and PhD students Sophia King and Ani Mustafa quoted in article discussing how chemists are acting against racism and inequality in STEM.  Nelson is an assistant professor of organic chemistry, King is a fourth-year chemistry graduate student in Professor Sarah Tolbert’s group and Mustafa is a second-year chemistry graduate student in Professor Patrick Harran’s […]

Each year at commencement we recognize our undergraduate students for their accomplishments in academics and in research. The 2020 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Commencement Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the recipients listed below! These awards are normally presented to our students at the department’s annual commencement ceremony which has been postponed until later […]