
(Left) First-year graduate student Santiago Vargas with graduate students Patricia Poths and Zerina Mehmedovic. (Right ) First-year graduate student Brandon Jolly with graduate students Roselyn Rodrigues and Julia Cheng.
(Left) Graduate student Hannah Friedman snaps a photo of first-year year graduate students Allison Hacker, Bee Farnsworth, Tony Moreno, Mariah Gomez and Helen Cumberbatch. (Right) Graduate student Zach Hern shows off the pizza.
(Left) First-year graduate student Grace Kunkel with graduate student Priera Panescu. (Right) Graduate students Yi Shen, Shijie Deng, Wenjing Wei and Woojin Lee.
(Left) First-year graduate students Austin Ready, Claire Dickerson and Kenneth Mei. (Right) Graduate students Mit Muni, Daniel Baumann, Andrew Dawson and Andrian Gomez.
(Left) Graduate student Carter Lantz, postdoc Dr. Muhammad Zenaidee and graduate student Benqian Weis. (Right) Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members Professors Justin Caram, Chong Liu, and Keriann Backus.
Graduate students (from left) Kevin Cannon, Kevin Cheung, Erin Avery, and Taylor Aubry-Komin and Kierstyn Anderson, Yueying Wang, and Rebecca Kubena.
(Left) First-year graduate students Nikolas Burton, Joseph Treacy, Matthew McVeigh, Lisa Boatner and Michael Guile. (Right) Kathryn Mansfield Messina, postdoc Dr. Evan Darzi and Mikayla Tan.
(Left) First-year graduate student Roberto Chavez and postdoc Dr. Morgan Howe. (Right) Graduate student Stanislav Popov, undergraduate researcher Daniel Lin, graduate students Zhenqi Zhao, Erika Aguiluz Ramirez, Sabina Cabrera, Rachel Knapp, Benjamin Wigman and Maximilian McCallum.
(Left) Graduate students Jason Chari, Katie Spence, Rachel Knapp, Milauni Mehta and Edris Rivera. (Right) Staff members Dr. Stephanie Hotz and Nick Baerg.
Photos by Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penny@chem.ucla.edu.