Professor Zhenan Bao (Stanford) visited UCLA on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, to give the Spring 2019 Distinguished Lecture. Over 400 faculty, students, and researchers attended Bao’s lecture titled “Skin-Inspired Materials […]

We celebrated the many accomplishments of our faculty, postdocs, students, staff, and alumni at our annual departmental awards ceremony on April 22, 2019. Each year at this event we recognize […]

Professor Heather Maynard has been chosen as the recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) 2019 Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award.  Maynard is being recognized for her “extensive contributions at the […]

Popular instructor Laurence Lavelle has been elected by UCLA’s Mortar Board Agathai chapter as the 2019 UCLA Mortar Board Honorary Member. Lavelle was selected from nominated UCLA faculty members to […]

Graduate student Hannah Bailey (Quinlan group) has been awarded a Pauley Fellowship by the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences.  The Edwin W. Pauley Fellowship is […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]