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2026-2027 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science

Graduate students Lenka Milojević (Zhou group), Akshaya Narayanasamy (Lindert group), Sarah Singleton (Conway group), and Janet Zhong (Feigon group) have been selected as 2026–27 Fowler Fellows and ...
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UCLA Physical Sciences celebrates inaugural class of Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows

The UCLA Division of Physical Sciences celebrated the inaugural class of Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows on Tuesday, ...
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UCLA organic chemists’ research on the Soai reaction cited in the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Key research by UCLA organic chemists Professor Soumitra Athavale and Distinguished Research Professor Kendall Houk on the mechanism of the Soai reaction was cited in the scientific background ...
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Xiangfeng Duan’s group advances quantum materials using an amino acid

Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group has made a major advance in the field of quantum materials. The research was published in ...
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Abigail Doyle receives 2026–27 Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award

Professor Abigail Doyle has received UCLA’s Postdoctoral Association 2026–27 Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award in ...
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Soumitra Athavale awarded 2026 Packard Fellowship

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has selected Professor Soumitra Athavale as one of 20 recipients of the 2026 Packard ...
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Graduate student Jason Williams’ My Block Skin company named a Top 10 company in the UCLA Draper Innovation Showcase

Graduate student Jason Williams (P. Weiss group) is combining his scientific training with entrepreneurship. My Block Skin, ...
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Michael Jung receives UC Regents Innovation Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award

Distinguished Professor Michael Jung, UCLA’s Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, has received the University of California Regents Innovation Distinguished Lifetime Achievement ...
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Spiroketal Synthesis Via Uncatalyzed Inverse Electron-Demand Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions at Ambient Temperature

2026-09-17 | Spiroketal Synthesis Via Uncatalyzed Inverse Electron-Demand Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions at Ambient Temperature – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Emma J. Greene ...
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Osvaldo Gutierrez selected for the 2027 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez, holder of the Fraser and Norma Stoddart Chair in Contemporary Chemistry, is one of ten organic chemists to be selected by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for the ...
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Abigail Doyle and collaborators awarded $19.5 million to establish an open-access autonomous chemistry laboratory

Professor Abigail Doyle and collaborators at the Scripps Research Institute and Sunthetics, an AI-for-chemistry company, have received a National Science Foundation award to support the development of ...
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UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry at the 2026 ACS Fall National Meeting

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and students will be receiving awards, presenting their research, and participating in a variety of events at the American ...