Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

14 chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2023-2024 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students who work within chemistry and biochemistry labs from the BBSB […]

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients
July 28

UCLA Faculty Career Development Awards

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professors Matthew Nava and Danielle Schmitt have been selected to receive a UCLA Faculty Career Development Awards. Nava and Schmitt will both receive $15,000, which will assist them as they […]

UCLA Faculty Career Development Awards
July 26

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Justin Caram

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Congratulations to Professor Justin Caram on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2023. A physical chemist, Caram joined the chemistry faculty in July 2017 as an […]

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Justin Caram
July 25

ACS Representative at COP28 climate meeting in Dubai

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

First-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry to represent the ACS at the […]

ACS Representative at COP28 climate meeting in Dubai
July 21

IEEE Nanotechnology Council Best PhD Thesis Award in Nanotechnology

3 years ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition

Alumnus Dr. Chuanzhen Zhao (M.S. ’17 chemistry, Ph.D. ’20 materials chemistry P. Weiss and A. Andrews groups) is the recipient of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) […]

IEEE Nanotechnology Council Best PhD Thesis Award in Nanotechnology
July 20

gBSA 2023 Summer Seminar Series

3 years ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Events

The 2023 Summer Seminar Series, organized by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), showcases talks by alumni, faculty, and current graduate students. Join us for the seminars every Friday afternoon […]

gBSA 2023 Summer Seminar Series
July 19

Whitcome Pre-doctoral Fellowships in Molecular Biology

3 years ago

Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students Andrew Goring (Clubb/Loo groups) and Alexander Stevens (Zhou group) have been awarded prestigious Whitcome Pre-doctoral Fellowships in Molecular Biology for 2023-24. The […]

Whitcome Pre-doctoral Fellowships in Molecular Biology
July 18

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