Fall 2025 SMACS AXS Student Faculty Mixer

8 months ago

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  • Student
  • Undergraduate

On October 24, 2025, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry students and faculty gathered in the Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory in Young Hall for a student-faculty mixer. This year, UCLA’s Student […]

Fall 2025 SMACS AXS Student Faculty Mixer
November 12

Juli Feigon delivers Mendel Lecture

8 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

On October 9, 2025, pioneering structural biologist Distinguished Professor Juli Feigon delivered the Mendel Lecture at the refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno. The lecture took place at the Augustinian […]

Juli Feigon delivers Mendel Lecture
November 12

UCLA team engineers enzymes for new hydrogenation reaction

8 months ago

  • Recent Research
  • Research

UCLA researchers led by Professor Soumitra Athavale have taught enzymes an entirely new reaction mechanism—a radical hydrogenation process that nature itself never discovered. Hydrogenation — the process of adding hydrogen […]

UCLA team engineers enzymes for new hydrogenation reaction
November 10

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant

8 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant Professor Victoria “Tori” Barber has been awarded an Indoor Air Research Award Grant from the American Lung Association. Barber received […]

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant
November 10

New study co-authored by Raphael Levine illuminates how sunlight splits nitrogen

8 months ago

  • Faculty
  • Research

In a recent collaborative study published in PNAS, Distinguished Research Professor Raphael Levine helped uncover how sunlight photodissociates  nitrogen molecules, offering new insights into the evolution of planetary atmospheres. Working […]

New study co-authored by Raphael Levine illuminates how sunlight splits nitrogen
November 7

Fall 2025 Distinguished Lecture by Professor Elizabeth Villa

8 months ago

  • Events

Professor Elizabeth Villa (University of California, San Diego), known for her pioneering research in cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), visited UCLA on October 20 to give the Fall 2025 Chemistry & […]

Fall 2025 Distinguished Lecture by Professor Elizabeth Villa
November 7

gBSA Trivia Night and Costume Contest 2025

8 months ago

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  • Graduate
  • Student

The UCLA Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted its annual Trivia Night and Costume Contest on October 24, 2025, bringing together graduate students from across the biosciences for an evening […]

gBSA Trivia Night and Costume Contest 2025
November 5

Inaugural Jeffrey I. Zink Invited Inorganic Lecture

9 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition

Professor Kyoko Nozaki (University of Tokyo), known for her pioneering research in organometallic catalysis and polymer chemistry, visited UCLA on October 15 to give the inaugural Jeffrey I. Zink Invited […]

Inaugural Jeffrey I. Zink Invited Inorganic Lecture
October 30