UCLA TAC Web Home - Welcome

Dear first year students,

Congratulations on being accepted into the Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate program and welcome to UCLA! Go Bruins!

The department has appointed two senior graduate students as your Teaching Assistant Consultants (TACs) in order to aid you. Please feel free to contact us during your initial few months regarding any concerns or questions you may have. We will do our best to guide you while you get settled into graduate student life.

The first day of orientation begins on Monday, September 14th at 9:00 AM (breakfast at 8:30 AM)
with discussions lead by the Graduate Student Affairs Office and continues through Friday September 18th. We have designed the orientation to address most of the questions and concerns you would have as an incoming graduate student and we would like to stress the importance and inherent benefit of your participation (more fun this way too!). A series of talks, panel discussions and other activities will help you to not only recognize available resources, but also prepare you for becoming an undergraduate Teaching Assistant (TA).

Please meet us in
Young Hall 2033 on September 14th for your first day at UCLA.

We look forward to seeing you this coming fall!

Best regards,
Your TACs

Matt Fontana: fontanam@ucla.edu

Briana Upton: bmupton@chem.ucla.edu