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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]