2025 Undergraduate Student Departmental Awards

12 months ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Thanks to our generous donors, 42 talented undergraduates received departmental awards this year in recognition of their accomplishments in research and in academics. The 2025 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Departmental […]

2025 Undergraduate Student Departmental Awards
June 19

2025 Undergraduate Research Fellowships

12 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Thanks to our generous donors, 47 undergraduate students will have the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research in our faculty labs as research fellows. The 2025 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Research […]

2025 Undergraduate Research Fellowships
June 18

2025 Commencement Video

12 months ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Events
  • Student

On Saturday, June 14, 2025, 37 of our students received Ph.D. degrees, 21 students received Master of Applied Chemical Sciences degrees, six Departmental Scholars received Master of Science degrees, and […]

2025 Commencement Video
June 18

SMACS hosts second annual Undergraduate Poster Session

1 year ago

  • Events
  • Research
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

On May 27, 2025, 28 undergraduate students presented posters summarizing their research efforts at the second annual SMACS and UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Poster Session, hosted jointly by the […]

SMACS hosts second annual Undergraduate Poster Session
June 11

Graduate student in the news – Arismel Tena Meza

1 year ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Arismel ‘Ari’ Tena Meza, a soon-to-graduate Ph.D. student in organic chemistry from the Garg group, is profiled in the UCLA Newsroom. From UCLA Newsroom (by Ben Paul): Arismel Tena Meza […]

Graduate student in the news – Arismel Tena Meza
June 10

Michael Jung receives Rice University’s 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award

1 year ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Michael Jung, UCLA’s Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, has been selected as one of three alumni from Rice University’s Weiss School of Natural Sciences to […]

Michael Jung receives Rice University’s 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award
June 10

Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air

1 year ago

  • Faculty
  • Graduate
  • Research
  • Student

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is co-leader of a research team that has developed a method for creating cement precursors from carbon dioxide.  Alexandrova holds the Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair in […]

Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air
June 9

Faculty in the News – Michael Jung

1 year ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

In advance of delivering the Academic Senate’s 130th Faculty Research Lecture on June 6, 2025, Professor Michael Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Professor of Medicinal Drug Discovery, is featured […]

Faculty in the News – Michael Jung
June 6