PhD student Dayanni Bhagwandin (Rubin Group) is featured in UCLA’s Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS) video series highlighting diverse scientists.   The video, which can be viewed here, highlights the challenges Bhagwandin faced, due to her background, and the strong community she has built in the Chemistry & Biochemistry department and CDLS since starting at […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova discusses her passion for teaching in a short video made as part of the UCLA Academic Senate’s recognition. The 2019 Distinguished Teaching Awards were announced earlier this year and the recipients were recognized at the 2019 Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching at the Chancellor’s residence on Oct. 15, 2019.   As part of […]

Professor Jennifer Casey explains her approach to teaching in a short video recorded as part of the UCLA Academic Senate’s recognition. The 2019 Distinguished Teaching Awards were announced earlier this year and the recipients were recognized at the 2019 Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching at the Chancellor’s residence on Oct. 15, 2019.   As […]

Graduate student Katherine “KJ” Winchell (Tolbert group) discusses the importance of making chemistry accessible in a short video recorded as part the UCLA Academic Senate’s recognition. The 2019 Distinguished Teaching Awards were announced earlier this year and the recipients were recognized at the 2019 Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching at the Chancellor’s residence […]

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has selected Professor Jose Rodriquez as one of 22 recipients for the 2019 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.   In being selected as one of the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers, each Fellow will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. A true Bruin, Rodriguez […]

On the day before instruction officially began, the department held its fifth annual welcome reception for new undergraduate students.   The undergraduate office invited over 400 incoming first-year majors and over 90 incoming transfer students to Young Hall 2033 for an informal reception where they met faculty, current students, student group leaders, and undergraduate advisors.  Select […]

To honor Nobel Laureate and UCLA professor Paul Boyer we are establishing an endowment to permanently fund summer undergraduate research fellowships. The department has over 1,000 undergraduate biochemistry majors, and each year these talented students apply for a limited number of summer research fellowships. Once this endowment is fully-funded, it will provide summer undergraduate research […]

Professor Jorge Torres has been named the 2019 recipient of the ASCB Prize for Excellence in Inclusivity by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). Torres will receive $5,000, will be recognized at the 2019 ASCB|EMBO Meeting in Washington, DC, in December 2019, and will contribute an essay to the Society’s basic science journal, Molecular […]