Neil Garg receives UCLA’s 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor Neil Garg has been named one of three UCLA faculty members to receive the 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from the […]

Neil Garg receives UCLA’s 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring
May 18

Soumitra Athavale Named to C&EN’s “Talented Twelve”

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) includes Professor Soumitra Athavale in its annual Talented 12 feature, highlighting young investigators who are doing groundbreaking work in the field. The Talented Twelve list, created […]

Soumitra Athavale Named to C&EN’s “Talented Twelve”
May 14

Spring 2026 Distinguished Lecture by Professor Erick M. Carreira

1 month ago

  • Events

Professor Erick M. Carreira (ETH Zürich), known for developing innovative methods in catalysis and for the total synthesis of complex, biologically important molecules, visited UCLA on April 29 to give […]

Spring 2026 Distinguished Lecture by Professor Erick M. Carreira
May 13

Remembering Charles A. West – Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry (1927 – 2026)

1 month ago

  • Faculty

by Professors Al Courey, Cathy Clarke, and Steve Clarke Our beloved colleague Emeritus Professor Charles A. West passed away on May 5 in Houston, Texas, at the age of 98.  […]

Remembering Charles A. West – Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry (1927 – 2026)
May 11

Soumitra Athavale receives $1.4M NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Soumitra Athavale has been awarded a highly prestigious Early Stage Investigator Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (ESI MIRA) R35 grant from the National Institutes of Health / National Institute of […]

Soumitra Athavale receives $1.4M NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award
May 11

2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award

1 month ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

First year Materials and Nanoscience graduate student Stéphane Miaule (Tolbert group) has been awarded the 2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s most prestigious […]

2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award
May 8

2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Awards & Honorable Mentions

2 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2026 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation […]

2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Awards & Honorable Mentions
May 1

UCLA research improves molecular probe for drug discovery

2 months ago

  • Research

A team of UCLA researchers, led by Professor Keriann Backus and postdoctoral teacher-scholar Dr. Chau Ngo, has developed a new technology that makes light-activated protein labeling more precise and reliable. […]

UCLA research improves molecular probe for drug discovery
April 28