We are grateful for the new support from NSF Division of Chemistry (CHE) that allows us to work on machine learning and electrochemistry with our collaborator Prof. Quanquan Gu at UCLA Computer Science! Stay tuned for our research progress in the future.
Xun Guan and Danlei Xiang receive the Summer Mentored Research Fellowship
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Graduate students Xun Guan and Danlei Xiang receive the UCLA Summer Mentored Research Fellowship (SMRF), which is designed to provide financial support to UCLA doctoral students. Congratulations!
Ben Natinsky receives the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship!
Graduate student Benjamin Natinsky receives the 2021-2022 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF), among the 13 chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers in the department. With a $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees, the DYF is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertations. The departmental news report is here. Congratulations, Ben!
Ben Hoar receives the Second Year Research and Academic Award!
Graduate student Benjamin Hoar receives the 2021 Jim and Barbara Tsay Excellence in Second Year Research and Academics Award. This award is given to third-year graduate students who performed exceptionally in courses, teaching, and research throughout their first and second years and have advanced to candidacy. Congratulations to Ben!
Ben Natinsky received two awards!
Graduate student Ben Natinsky (OG Ben) received the departmental John Stauffer Excellence in Research Award in recognition of his research excellence and productivity, as well as the departmental Michael E. Jung Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of Ben as excellent teaching assistants.
This summer Ben is participating in the DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) Energy Storage Internship Program at National Energy Technology Laboratory. Congratulations to Ben and enjoy the internship!
First Ph.D. in the group! Congratulations, Rosie!
The first graduate student in the Liu group, Ms. Roselyn Rodrigues, received her Ph.D. in Chemistry along with our departmental Inorganic Chemistry Dissertation Award. Congratulations!
Time flies. It is hard to believe that so many years have passed. Chong keeps recalling the summer of 2017 when Rosie and Chong were opening boxes like Christmas and setting up the lab. Chong is grateful for all the works that Rosie has contributed to the group and the mentoring that she did to other junior students. Best wishes to Rosie for her future career!
Awards from our undergraduate students!
We have multiple excellent undergraduate students receiving recognitions this year. Congratulations!
- David Dumas received the Susan Elizabeth Baumgarten Chemistry Endowed Student Award.
- Luke Elissiry received the ACS Award for Outstanding Senior in Inorganic Chemistry
- David Dumas, Luke Elissiry, and Brianna Mai presented their research at the UCLA Undergraduate Research Showcase.
- We have two undergraduates who just graduated: Luke Elissiry will start at UC Berkeley for graduate study and Coco Wu will start at UCSF. Best wishes to their future career!
Francisco Galang is selected into the UC LEADS program
Undergraduate student Francisco “Kiko” Galang (Chem Eng) is selected into the UC LEADS program, one of the most prestigious fellowships award by the University of California system. The departmental news report is here.
Sponsored by this UC LEAD program, Kiko will conduct a remote summer internship in 2021 with the group of Prof. Alexis t. Bell at UC Berkeley. Enjoy the summer!
2020 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award
We are excited to be awarded the 2020 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award! This project is in collaboration with UCLA postdoc alum Prof. Nanette Boyle‘s group at Colorado School of Mines, with the project title “Solar-augmented direct air capture of methane using methanotrophic bacteria”.
A fellow of Scialog: Negative Emissions Science, Chong is grateful for the funding support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
The departmental news report can be found here.
Another funding update (NIEHS R01)
A collaborative team of the Liu group and Prof. Yujie Men’s group at UC Riverside has been awarded a 5-year R01 grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research program. We are excited to apply the interface between inorganic materials and microorganisms for environmental bioremediation!
Now we need more hands.