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2021 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award

Apr 30, 2021

PhD student Samantha Mensah (Andrews/P Weiss labs) has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2021 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award.

2021-22 Beckman Scholar

Apr 30, 2021

Undergraduate researcher Samantha “Sam” Vi-Tang (Kaner group) is one of two UCLA students selected as 2021-2022 Beckman Scholars.

2021 UCLA Chancellor's Awards for Postdoctoral Research

Apr 29, 2021

Postdoctoral Scholars Lucía Fernandez-del-Rio (Catherine Clarke group) and Zipeng Zhao (Yu Huang and Xiaofeng Duan groups) receive the 2021 UCLA Chancellor's $7,500 Awards for Postdoctoral Research.

ACS festschrift honors EVCP Professor Emily Carter

Apr 26, 2021

The American Chemical Society (ACS) paid tribute to the accomplishments of UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter in a special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Faculty Voices in the News

Apr 23, 2021

In her new paper, Dr Roshini Ramachandran discusses the teaching practices and pedagogical strategies that she used in her Fall 2020 CHEM 3: Material World general education course.

UCLA team wins $7.5M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Apr 20, 2021

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Cheng-Wei Lin are part of the UCLA team to win the grand prize in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE global competition.

Celebrating Emeritus Professor Dan Atkinson's 100th Birthday

Apr 16, 2021

We are pleased to honor eminent UCLA biochemist Emeritus Professor Daniel Atkinson who turned 100 on April 8, 2021.

UC LEADS Scholars

Apr 15, 2021

Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students Francisco Galang and Kylie Williams have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.

Distinguished Teaching Award/CUTF Fellow

Apr 15, 2021

Cheylene Tanimoto (Gelbart/Knobler group) is one of only five UCLA graduate students selected campus-wide for the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants.

2021 Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research

Apr 12, 2021

Ishika Saha (Harran group) is one of eight 4th year PhD students chosen from labs around the country to participate in the 2021 Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research.

Spring 2021 Distinguished Lecture

Apr 8, 2021

Professor Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University & Co-Founder, Broad Institute, gave the virtual Spring 2021 Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

Apr 8, 2021

Former undergraduate researcher alumna Abby Thurm ’20 Biochemistry (Gelbart/Knobler group) is featured on URC-Sciences’ Student Spotlight.

Thurm is profiled on UCLA's Undergraduate Resear

UC President Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows

Apr 7, 2021

Postdoc Borna Zandkarimi (Alexandrova group), PhD student David Boyer (Eisenberg group), and alum Marco Messina (PhD '19 Maynard and Spokoyny groups) have been selected to participate in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June 2021.

AFRL Space Scholars Program

Apr 7, 2021

PhD student Kierstyn Anderson (Spokoyny lab) has been selected for the AFRL 2021 Space Scholars Program to work on the design, fabrication, characterization, and development of functional coatings and materials.

Elevator research pitch videos by undergraduate researchers

Apr 7, 2021

Undergraduate researchers David Dumas (Liu lab) and Jaybree Lopez (Loo Lab) explain their research and offer advice to new students in URC-Sciences Research Elevator Pitch videos.

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Novel technologies for Alzheimer’s and dementia treatments

Apr 1, 2021

In a new MBI video, Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez discuss the promising new therapies they each are developing in their labs.

Houk group calculations bring together two experimental groups in Science publication

Mar 30, 2021

Professor Ken Houk is co-leader of research team that discovered selective photochemically-induced Diels-Alder reactions of nitrogen-containing molecules to give bicyclic products with high selectivity.

Faculty in the News – EE|Times

Mar 29, 2021

Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s recent Nature perspective article, which provides critical insights into the future of semiconductor technology, is featured in-depth in EE|Times magazine.

2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows

Mar 25, 2021

Congratulations to our current and former students who have received prestigious 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards and Honorable Mentions.

Alumna Spotlight – Professor Amy Keating

Mar 22, 2021

This week we shine a spotlight on alumna MIT biologist and president of The Protein Society, Professor Amy Keating (PhD ’98 Houk/García-Garibay groups).

Graduate student voice in the news

Mar 18, 2021

BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes fourth article for ASBMB Today magazine as part of their contributor program.

UCLA History - Class in Session - 1929

Mar 18, 2021

92 years ago today, Chemistry 1A was the first class ever taught at UCLA's Westwood campus.

2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty

Mar 16, 2021

Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been selected for one of UCLA’s highest teaching honors, the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty.

A trio of UCLA groups harness solid-state photochemistry for natural product synthesis

Mar 12, 2021

The García-Garibay, Garg, and Houk research groups explored the synthesis of challenging structural motifs with photochemical reactions in crystals.

Chemistry & Biochemistry scholars receive awards at UC LEADS Symposium

Mar 11, 2021

Undergraduate researchers Luke Elissiry, Garrett Kukier and Andy Nguyen receive awards at the 2021 Koret UC LEADS Research and Leadership Symposium.

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