Each year at commencement we recognize our graduate students for their accomplishments in academics and in research. The 2021 Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduate Student Commencement Awards have been announced. Congratulations to this year’s 43 recipients listed below!  These awards are normally presented to our students at the department’s annual commencement ceremony, which has been postponed […]

PhD student Samantha Mensah (Andrews/P Weiss labs) is one of the six co-founders of #BlackInChem to receive the RSC’s 2021 Inclusion & Diversity Prize. From the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) award announcement: #BlackInChem – Winner 2021 Inclusion & Diversity Prize For the creation of a platform to amplify Black voices, celebrate Black excellence in […]

73 of our undergraduate student researchers presented their research at the UCLA Undergraduate Research Showcase, nine were awarded the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize.  At the event on May 25, 2021, 5-10 minute live-streamed Chemistry & Biochemistry student research presentations took place in three difference sessions and 5-10 minute prerecorded research presentations were available to view […]

A team of 23 researchers from the Tang, Houk and Garg labs receive the RSC’s 2021 Horizon Prize: Bioorganic Chemistry Award for their discovery of a new class of enzymes.  The collaboration between the Tang, Houk and Garg labs at UCLA, led by a team of postdoctoral scholars and graduate students, discovered and characterized a […]

Five talented UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry scientists have been selected for the department’s 2021 Postdoctoral Research Awards. Dr. Timothy (Tim) Atallah (Caram group), Dr. Marcus Gallagher-Jones (Rodriguez group), Dr. Yao He (Feigon/Zhou groups), Dr. Manisha (Mani) Swain (Kwon group), and Dr. Zhong Wan (Duan group) were chosen for the award from a highly competitive group […]

Professors Johnny Pang and Anish Nag have been named the recipients of the 2021 Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching.   The Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in 1986 as a means to celebrate outstanding teaching within the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The award recognizes our ladder and non-ladder faculty members for […]

Eight talented chemistry & biochemistry graduate students have been awarded 2021 Excellence in Research awards. Congratulations to Zach Hern (Diaconescu group), Evan Hurlow (Harran group), Yao Gong (P Weiss group), Sepand Nistanaki (Nelson group), Carter Lantz (Loo group), Katie Spence (Garg group), Benjamin Natinsky (Nelson group), and Bosi Peng (Duan group)! The Excellence in Research […]

Ten talented third-year chemistry & biochemistry graduate students who have been awarded the 2021 Jim and Barbara Tsay Excellence in Second Year Research and Academics Awards.  These awards were made possible by a generous endowment established in 2009 by Dr. Shyr-Jin “Jim” Tsay (Ph.D. ’77), recipient of our 2019 Alumni Legacy Award, and his wife […]