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 is graduating with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and an education that goes beyond the lab. Arismel Tena Meza, known to her friends and mentors […]

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 receive the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award. The annual awards honor outstanding professional and societal achievements of distinguished and recent school alumni and will be presented […]

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 Chemistry & Biochemistry and is also a professor of Materials Science and Engineering. She serves as the director of the NSF Center for Chemical Innovation. […]

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 in UCLA Newsroom. From UCLA Newsroom (by Jolie Lash): A midlife career shift for Michael Jung led to breakthroughs in fight against prostate cancer  Jung, […]

This year, 16 chemistry and biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2025-2026 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertation. It includes a $30,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees (excluding nonresident tuition). Each year, approximately 200 […]

On May 16, 2025, Professors Hung V. Pham and Martin-Louis Riu participated in a lighthearted fundraiser for the Saving Hearts Foundation (SHF), where students could throw whipped cream pies at them for $4 per pie or two for $7. Saving Hearts Foundation is a nonprofit, chapter-based organization that provides free preventative heart screenings for individuals […]

Alumnus Dr. Tejas Shah (Ph.D. ’16, Garg group), now a Discovery Research Scientist with Corteva Agriscience, is named to the “Talented Twelve” by C&EN in recognition of his work automating chemistry to ensure food security. Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) includes Shah in its annual 2025 Talented 12 feature, highlighting young investigators who are doing groundbreaking work […]

Biochemistry undergraduate student researchers Madison Bang (Su group), Precious Calderon (Vallim group), Helen Elmer (Gelbart group), Peter Fernandez (Koehler group), and Samantha Wu (Rodriguez group) receive the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize at this year’s UCLA Undergraduate Research Showcase. The Science Dean’s Prize at UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week recognizes exceptional undergraduate researchers in the fields of […]