Ph.D. candidates Mai Abdusamad, Katarina Cohen, Teagan Dean, Jadyn Malone, and Jack Scully receive UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) 2025 Fellowship Awards to support their cancer research projects. The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) Fellowship Program provides research funding to postdoctoral scholars/fellows, residents, and graduate Students engaged in all areas of cancer research, including […]

Professor Justin Caram has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as a member of the 2025 cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators. He joins 22 other mid-career researchers from around the country, each receiving a five-year, $1.3 million grant to further their research goals. The initiative is designed to support new and imaginative […]

Omar M. Yaghi, a former professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA who is currently the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Recognized as the inventor of reticular chemistry—a scientific field focused on linking molecular building blocks into extended crystalline frameworks—Yaghi conducted […]

Materials chemistry graduate student Kodi Thurber (Tolbert group) has been awarded the 2025 Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Scientific Development Award for his development of a novel battery cell that enables the use of synchrotron X-rays to visualize structure and volume changes in energy dense battery materials in 3D, with nanoscale resolution. Thurber received the […]

In a pair of recent studies published as back-to-back articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a research team led by the Wong group has unveiled new insights into how mitochondria divide – paving the way for potential new treatments. Professor Gerard Wong (pictured above), a member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan and graduate student Boxuan Zhou (Materials Science and Engineering) lead a research team that has developed a durable, low-cost, printable light-emitting membrane from ultrathin molybdenum disulfide and Nafion, with strong potential for chip-integrated photonic devices. Chemistry & Biochemistry members Professors Matthew Nava, Yu Huang, and Martin-Louis Riu are also part of the […]

At UCLA football home games, the Rose Bowl crowd sees UCLA’s only featured baton twirler, Olivia Pacheco, sparkle under the stadium lights. What most fans don’t see is the same student in a lab coat and goggles, immersed in research and coursework as a fourth-year Public Health major and undergraduate researcher in Professor Steven Clarke’s […]

Professor Jose Rodriguez is one of two UCLA faculty members selected for the inaugural 2024–25 UCLA Academic Senate Service Rising Star Award. The award recognizes his service on the Graduate Council and his role as the Graduate Council liaison to the Academic Program Review Committee. According to the announcement, the award celebrates and recognizes UCLA […]