Professor Abby Doyle is one of seven award recipients of the Dreyfus Foundation 2021 program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering. The Dreyfus program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering, initiated in 2020, provides funding for innovative projects in any area of Machine Learning (ML) consistent with the Foundation’s […]

Researchers from UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) team up to bring cutting-edge STEM research to under-represented students. Professor Heather Maynard, Co-director of the BioPACIFIC MIP, and Professor Jose Rodriquez, both UCLA chemistry & biochemistry faculty members, are senior investigators on the National Science Foundation $3.8 million grant that will help advance […]

Six Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members are selected to receive CNSI Noble Family Innovation Fund grants for their nanoscience research projects. The Noble Family Innovation Fund, established with a $10 million philanthropic commitment to the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, supports basic and translational research involving interactions on the nanoscale – measured in billionths of […]

Former undergraduate researcher Indya Weathers ’19 (Biochemistry, Chanfreau group) is featured on Undergraduate Research Center–Sciences’ Student Spotlight.    Weathers was recognized by the UCLA/URC-Sciences for her first author publication in STAR Protocols titled “Protocol for High-Resolution Mapping of Splicing Products and Isoforms by RT-PCR Using Fluorescently Labeled Primers”, which is based on her undergraduate research […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras  for 2021-26. IIT Madras Distinguished Professorships are awarded to pre-eminent authorities in their fields and who are nationally or internationally recognized for the importance of their achievements. Weiss is the first UCLA faculty member to receive the honor. […]

Olympic gold medalist and UCLA volleyball legend Karch Kiraly leads the USA Women’s Volleyball team to its first-ever Olympic gold medal. The U.S. Women made history on Sunday, August 8, 2021, sweeping longtime rival Brazil for their first Olympic gold medal, 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-14) at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Charles Frederick “Karch” Kiraly began […]

Polymer chemist Professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2021 Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The American Chemical Society works to promote public policies that advance the chemistry enterprise and its practitioners. The Fellow of the American Chemical Society designation is awarded to members who have made exceptional contributions to the science or […]

BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes ninth article for ASBMB Today magazine as part of their contributor program.   Lynn’s article titled “Starved to death: Can dietary methionine combat cancer?” was featured in the July 27, 2021 issue of ASBMB Today, the member magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). The […]