Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Jacob Kim (Kwon lab), Andrew Palmer (Backus lab), and Arismel Tena-Meza (Garg lab) have been named the 2023 Senior Foote Fellows. The Senior Foote Fellowships support our most outstanding third-year graduate students upon completion of their qualifying examination for their Ph.D. degree and the Junior Foote Fellowships support our most […]

Professor Vinothan Manoharan (Department of Physics, Harvard University) gave the 7th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on February 27, 2023. The well-attended lecture, entitled “The Self-Assembly of Simple RNA Viruses”, was followed by a question-and-answer period and then by a reception in the Young Hall Cafe Commons. Select photos from the event are below. […]

Professor Neil Garg is the 2023 recipient of the Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, an annual award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) presented to scientists and engineers in recognition of their contributions to public engagement with science. According to the AAAS announcement, the award recognizes Garg’s […]

Professor Ellen Sletten has been selected for a 2023 Rising Star Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee (WCC) for her work on new approaches to imaging and drug delivery. Sletten will receive the award at a reception following the WCC Rising Star Symposium at American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2023 national […]

We are sad to report that Adela Roberts, widow of UCLA biochemistry professor emeritus Roberts Smith, passed away on December 31, 2021. In May, 2022 Adela’s family had a small gathering up on Vancouver Island to spread both her and Bob’s ashes around their garden at the house they both loved so much. Bob passed […]

Samantha (Sammy) Mensah – talented scientist, passionate activist, co-founder of BlackInChem, and UCLA Bruin – passed away on February 22, 2023. Sammy was a 6th-year chemistry graduate student in the groups of Professors Paul Weiss and Anne Andrews where she studied biosensors that detect neurotransmitters and other chemical biomarkers. She received her bachelor’s degree in […]

On February 6, 2023, alumnus Dr. Marco Messina (Ph.D. ’19 Maynard/Spokoyny groups), currently a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, was presented with the 2023 Norma Stoddart Prize for Academic Excellence and Outstanding Citizenship. Nobel Laureate and UCLA Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Sir Fraser Stoddart visited UCLA to present the prize and to give […]

Professor Justin Caram is among 126 early-career researchers receiving the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations for most of the very best young scientists from the United States and Canada.  According to the foundation, the awards “honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian […]