Emily Carter
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.
 
Roshini Ramachandran
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.

Prof. Richard Kaner
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. 
 
Emeritus Professor Daniel Atkinson
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.
 
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UC LEADS Scholars
Apr 15, 2021
Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students Francisco Galang and Kylie Williams have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program. 
 
Cheylene Tanimoto
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.

Ishika Saha
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.
 
Professor Stuart Schreiber
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. 
 
Abby Thurm
Alumni News
Apr 8, 2021
Former undergraduate researcher alumna Abby Thurm ’20 Biochemistry (Gelbart/Knobler group) is featured on URC-Sciences’ Student Spotlight. 
 
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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.
 
Kierstyn Anderson
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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Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez
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.
 
Professor Ken Houk
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.
 
Professor Xiangfeng Duan
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.

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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.
 
Professor Amy Keating
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). 
 
Nicole Lynn
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.  

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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.

Professor Alex Spokoyny
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.

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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.
 
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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.
 
Dr. Laurence Lavelle aka "Dr. DJ LL"
Karaoke fun with “DJ Lavelle”
Mar 11, 2021
Students from Dr Laurence Lavelle’s 14B classes thoroughly enjoyed a fun “Karaoke Night w/ DJ Lavelle” virtual event and contest on March 6th. 
 
Fay Lin
Graduate student in the news
Mar 10, 2021
In honor of International Women’s Day 2021, BMSB graduate student Xiaofei ‘Fay’ Lin is profiled by the UCLA International Institute and UCLA Newsroom. 
 
Professor Heather Maynard
Professor Heather Maynard is featured speaker at SCALACS International Women’s Day Celebration
Mar 3, 2021
On Monday evening, March 8, Professor Heather Maynard will be featured speaker at Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society special event.

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