Fourth-year computational & systems biology undergraduate researcher Elise Ỷ-lan Tran (Alexandrova group) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship for 2024-2025 to visit Vietnam for ten months to conduct her own research project aimed at assisting the Deaf community.  Tran is eager to apply principles of physics to delve into human biology, with […]

Department Chair Professor Alex Spokoyny has been named the inaugural recipient of the Northwestern International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Trailblazer Award, in recognition of his pioneering work on developing new methods for creating hybrid atomically-precise nanostructures. Spokoyny presented a talk about his research at Northwestern University on May 9, 2024, titled “Organometallic Strategies for Modifying […]

Teacher-Scholar Dr. Rajat Maji has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which will support his research to incorporate data science and high-throughput experimentation in organic reaction optimization and discovery. The NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) is for exceptional postdoctoral […]

Alumni Dr. Jesus Moreno (Ph.D. ’17 Garg group) and Prof. Nako Nakatsuka (Ph.D. ’17 Andrews/P Weiss groups) have been named to Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) “Talented 12” Class for 2024. Moreno and Nakatsuka will speak about their work and their journeys during a symposium on August 19 at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2024 […]

Professor Prineha Narang, a member of the Quantum Science Center (QSC), is working with a multi-institutional research team of researchers to devise new theoretical and experimental methodologies aimed at screening materials for Majoranas, which are complex quasiparticles that could be the key to building next-generation quantum computing systems. Narang joined the UCLA faculty in July […]

Ph.D. student Victoria Rubio (Spokoyny lab) has been selected for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 2024 Space Scholars Program to work on the synthesis and characterization of polymer films imbedded with luminescent boranes. Rubio is a third-year year graduate student in Professor Alex Spokoyny’s lab working on synthetic main group chemistry. She explores the […]

The Division of Medicinal Chemistry (MEDI) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Professor Stuart Conway, Michael and Alice Jung Endowed Chair of Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, as the winner of the 2024 Robert M. Scarborough Award. Conway will present an award address at the ACS 2024 Fall National Meeting in August as […]

Distinguished Research Professor Ken Houk has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (CSS). According to the CCS, an organization of over 110,000 members, the Honorary Fellow of CCS is granted to the most distinguished chemists from around the world who have made significant contributions to the advancement of chemistry, as […]