2023 Ono Breakthrough Science Initiative Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Keriann Backus has been named a recipient of the 2023 Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation to support her research on chemoproteogenomic approaches to guide immunomodulatory […]

2023 Ono Breakthrough Science Initiative Award
July 14

Chemists develop new process for the production of ring-shaped molecules

3 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Recent Research
  • Research

Professor Ken Houk and Cram Teacher Scholar Dr. Huiling Shao are part of an international team of researchers who have succeeded for the first time in using structural editing to […]

Chemists develop new process for the production of ring-shaped molecules
July 12

2023 Graduate Student Commencement Congratulations Video

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

We are excited to share a special video with messages from our faculty, congratulating our recently graduated Ph.D. students! As a tradition that started in 2020, these video messages have […]

2023 Graduate Student Commencement Congratulations Video
July 12

NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduating doctoral student Shreya Patel (Tolbert group) has been awarded an NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-Ascend) to support her work on nanoscale optical materials at […]

NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
July 12

2023 UZH Foundation Brain Diseases Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Graduate student Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang (Eisenberg group) is a winner of the 2023 Brain Diseases Award from the UZH Foundation for his “excellent discovery of TMEM106B as the component […]

2023 UZH Foundation Brain Diseases Award
July 12

UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow

3 years ago

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

Chemistry graduate student Caitlyn Fick (Srivastava group) has been chosen by the UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) program to teach a lower-division seminar titled, “PFAS, pesticides, and plastics: […]

UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow
July 11

New leadership for the UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Predoctoral Research Training Program

3 years ago

On July 1, 2023, the baton for the leadership of the NIH-supported UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Predoctoral Research Training Program was passed on to Professor Patrick Harran from Professor Heather […]

New leadership for the UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Predoctoral Research Training Program
July 10

Bare-foot Ni(OH)2-clothed platinum-tetrapods enable more efficient green hydrogen production

3 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Recent Research
  • Research

A collaborative research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group, Professor Anastassia N. Alexandrova’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor Yu Huang’s group in the […]

Bare-foot Ni(OH)2-clothed platinum-tetrapods enable more efficient green hydrogen production
July 7