Neil Garg featured in Caltech Heritage Project

12 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor Neil Garg was recently interviewed for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Heritage Project. According to the Caltech website, the Caltech Heritage Project “captures, conveys, […]

Neil Garg featured in Caltech Heritage Project
September 2

UCLA’s MIC opens High Throughput Synthesis and Catalysis (HTSC) facility 

12 months ago

  • General

The UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC) is pleased to announce the opening of its newest lab, the High Throughput Synthesis and Catalysis Facility (HTSC). High throughput experimentation (HTE) has garnered […]

UCLA’s MIC opens High Throughput Synthesis and Catalysis (HTSC) facility 
August 26

UCLA spinout Entropic Biosciences awarded $200K for high-throughput 3D skin model project

12 months ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Entropic Biosciences, Inc., a start-up biotech company founded at UCLA in Professor Paul Weiss’ group based on the thesis of alumnus Dr. Amir Nasajpour (Ph.D. ’23), is one of only […]

UCLA spinout Entropic Biosciences awarded $200K for high-throughput 3D skin model project
August 25

BioPACIFIC MIP earns renewed NSF support to accelerate AI-driven biobased materials innovation

12 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given $19.8 million in renewal funding for the BioPACIFIC MIP, a UCLA–UC Santa Barbara collaboration advancing biobased materials through synthetic biology, chemistry, automation, and […]

BioPACIFIC MIP earns renewed NSF support to accelerate AI-driven biobased materials innovation
August 20

Graduate student in the news – Jason Williams

12 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Chemistry Ph.D. candidate, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Tillman Scholar, and facilitator for Veterans in STEM, Jason Q.L. Williams (P. Weiss group), is featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article about […]

Graduate student in the news – Jason Williams
August 19

Welcoming Professor Jazmin Aguilar-Romero

1 year ago

  • Faculty

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomes emerging pedagogy scholar Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025.  “The division of physical […]

Welcoming Professor Jazmin Aguilar-Romero
August 15

UCLA to host Alianza MX Fellow Gustavo G. Flores-Bernal

1 year ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition

Dr. Gustavo G. Flores-Bernal has been selected for the University of California (UC) Alianza MX Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, beginning in the 2025–26 academic year. He will join Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez‘s […]

UCLA to host Alianza MX Fellow Gustavo G. Flores-Bernal
August 14

Faculty in the News – Michael Jung

1 year ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Research

Distinguished Professor Michael Jung and his UCLA collaborators are featured in a recent New York Magazine article about their groundbreaking research on a potential cure for baldness. The New York Magazine article […]

Faculty in the News – Michael Jung
August 12