Graduate student Nikki Cheung wins $25K 2024 SOAR grant

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Biochemistry graduate student Nikki Cheung (Clubb group) is one of only two students nationwide to be chosen as winner of the 2024 Science Olympiad Alumni Research (SOAR) Grant for Medical […]

Graduate student Nikki Cheung wins $25K 2024 SOAR grant
July 30

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Prineha Narang

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

From climbing mountains in the Cascades and South America to being a U.S. Science Envoy building relationships internationally in quantum, Professor Prineha Narang strives to be a role model for […]

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Prineha Narang
July 25

Graduate student Mai Abdusamad awarded prestigious NIH fellowship

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Biochemistry graduate student Mai Abdusamad (Torres group) has been awarded a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (NIH F31). The NIH F31 award, formally known […]

Graduate student Mai Abdusamad awarded prestigious NIH fellowship
July 24

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Ellen Sletten

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Congratulations to Professor Ellen Sletten on her promotion to full professor, effective July 1, 2023. Sletten’s groundbreaking research and innovative approaches have positioned her as a leading scientist in chemical […]

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Ellen Sletten
July 23

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

2 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the oldest chemical society in the world, whose mission is to “advance excellence in the […]

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
July 23

UCLA MACS Program Graduates First Cohort

2 years ago

  • Education
  • Student

Last month, UCLA’s chemistry department graduated its first cohort of twenty-one students in the new Master of Applied Chemical Sciences (MACS) program. Created in response to an urgent need in industry for […]

UCLA MACS Program Graduates First Cohort
July 23

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Alexander Spokoyny

2 years ago

  • Faculty

Congratulations to Professor Alexander Spokoyny on his promotion to full professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2024. Spokoyny is a prominent chemist specializing in inorganic, main group and organometallic chemistry, […]

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Alexander Spokoyny
July 23

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Keriann Backus

2 years ago

  • Faculty

Congratulations to Professor Keriann Backus on her promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2024. A prominent chemical biologist known for her groundbreaking work in chemoproteomics and chemical […]

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Keriann Backus
July 23