grants and gifts

Funding from the U.S. Department of Health Resources and Administration will cover about half the tuition of selected minority and disadvantaged students.

UCLA Anderson has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation, the independent foundation created by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, a U.S Navy veteran.

Education profession Alison Bailey and researchers with Center X’s Northeast Region office will receive $2.37 million over five years from the National Professional Development program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television established the graduate student fellowship in honor of the late faculty member.

The assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering will apply the $360,000 award to research on nanoscale architectures and ultrafast energy diagnostics.

Stevenson is a renowned scholar in the history of slavery, particularly enslaved women, in the United States and throughout the Atlantic World.

Professor Pietro Musumeci, James Rosenzweig and William Barletta will conduct beam generation and beam dynamics research.

The $450,000 grant will support a four-year pilot program designed to provide greater access to and information about the field of conservation.

The Department of Defense grant will support Dr. Randolph Steadman and his research team in developing technology to help health care trainees refine clinical decision-making and teamwork skills.

The interdisciplinary team aims for significant increases in efficiency for wireless communication and sensor technologies.

The annual colloquium brings together a panel of UCLA Law faculty and other experts to discuss the most important upcoming cases on the U.S. Supreme Court docket and analyze the implications of these cases.

Ellen Scott, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has been named a 2016 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Led by Steven Clarke, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the program prepares the next generation of doctoral students for successful careers in the biosciences.

The UCLA Academic Personnel Office awards fund teaching projects that support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of lecturers.

The initiative, launched in 2013, is dedicated to studying contemporary issues in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai and Mexico City.

The endowed chair supports an outstanding scholar in electrical engineering. Iyer is known for his pioneering work in semiconductors.

A UCLA bioengineer's research project to develop a paper-based diagnostic device that can rapidly determine if women are at risk for cervical cancer has won a $100,000 grant.

The chairs will support gifted and creative investigators in UCLA's neuroscience research and training programs.

The grant will expand activities of the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, a collaboration of UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo.

A member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lo has been awarded $900,000 by the Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation.

The DOE program provides support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work.

David Wacker and his siblings Gerry, Beverly and Michael — all UCLA alumni — have donated 46 acres of land in Kern County to the UCLA Meteorite Collection.

The assistant professor of dentistry was awarded for research that advances scientific knowledge in implant dentistry and tissue engineering.

A UCLA engineer is on an international team of engineers and biologists attempting to get unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently in order to design unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings.

Over the years, the Hellman Fellows Fund has supported more than 850 junior faculty members who are now chairs and heads of departments, MacArthur fellows and tenured faculty with long successful track records.