Thanks to our generous donors, 35 undergraduate students will conduct research in our faculty labs this year as summer research fellows. The summer research experience can be one of the most meaningful parts of an undergraduate education. It enables students to pursue science research rather than having to accept a summer job in an unrelated […]

PhD student Jesus Iñiguez (Chong Liu group) has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2019 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award.   According to the Academic Senate’s DEI website, the prestigious award is given to just one graduate student each year in order “to honor those who have motivated other members of […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2019 Community Service and Praxis Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award.   According to the Academic Senate’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CODEI) awards website, the Community Service and Praxis award honors a faculty member “who has built solid, lasting, and meaningful partnerships […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students Luke Elissiry and Andy Nguyen have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced DegreeS (UC LEADS) program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. Each year this honor is awarded to up to nine […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Alexander Spokoyny, a UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry and member of the California NanoSystems Institute, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER […]

Professor Jorge Torres has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2019 Student Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award.   “This award is very well-deserved,” said UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Chair Professor Catherine F. Clarke. “Through Jorge’s service, teaching, and research program, he has shown a self-less dedication to the advocacy and mentoring […]

Six graduate students, three undergraduate student researchers, and two alumnas receive highly competitive 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards.    In addition, two graduate students received 2019 NSF Honorable Mentions. 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) were awarded to graduate students Kierstyn Anderson (Spokoyny group), Maria Flores (Rodriquez group), Janine Fu (Loo group), Francesca […]