Graduate student Joshua Engler (Tolbert group) has been awarded the 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s most prestigious honors for graduate students in the fields of Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics or STEM. Engler is among 165 students from across the country, and one of four from UCLA, […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.  “I am delighted to announce that Professor Alexander Spokoyny has agreed to serve as chair of the department from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026,” said Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Senior Dean of the […]

Professor Keriann Backus receives a 2023 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award, which honors the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who have served as effective research mentors to undergraduate students.  As part of the UCLA Undergraduate Research Week, which was held on May 22-26, 2023, undergraduate student researchers who presented their work during the Undergraduate […]

Fifth-year chemical biology Ph.D. student Hayden Montgomery (Maynard/Spokoyny groups) has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2022-23 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award. According to the Academic Senate’s DEI website, the prestigious award is given to just one graduate student each year in order “to honor those who have motivated […]

Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) has been selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list – Class of 2023 in the Health Care & Science category. Forbes magazine released its eighth annual “30 Under 30 Asia” list, which includes 300 young entrepreneurs, leaders, and trailblazers under the age of 30 from across the […]

The department welcomes talented mineral chemist Professor Abby Kavner, who will join the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty as a Full Professor on July 1, 2023. Prof. Kavner will hold a joint appointment with the department and the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, where she is currently a Full Professor.  […]

Professor Louis Bouchard’s group and UCLA collaborators have developed a new approach for predicting landslides that decouples the analytic power of DNNs from their complex adaptive nature in order to deliver more useful results. A professor of chemistry and bioengineering, Bouchard and his former student Khalid Youssef (Ph.D. ’15, Biomedical Engineering), now a Senior Scientist […]

Fourth-year Chemistry graduate student Benqian Wei (Loo lab) has been awarded a 2023 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by Agilent. This fellowship carries a stipend of $25,000 for nine months and will become effective July 1, 2023. Wei’s Ph.D. research in Professor Joseph Loo’s group explores the utility of tandem mass spectrometry-produced […]