grants and gifts

The $2.8 million NSF grant will support Sandoval's UCLA research team working in collaboration with teachers in the Montebello Unified School District.

The gift from Julia Gouw, a respected Los Angeles businesswoman and native of Indonesia, will support research, conferences and more.

Chen is an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies program would help reconcile a national shortage of specialists in museums, libraries, archives and special collections.

Alexandrova will conduct research on computational catalysis in the chemistry laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France.

The first muralist to be so honored by the organization, Baca is the creator of 'The Great Wall of Los Angeles."

The donation from LINE-X Protective Coatings represents the company's longtime commitment to U.S. military veterans.

A three-year, $2 million-plus grant, awarded to Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, will be used to develop therapies to halt or alleviate the disabilities associated with multiple sclerosis.

An Art Works award of $20,000 will go to the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA to present Phantom Limb’s "Memory Rings."

The funding supports a multi-university initiative to increase the numbers of women and underrepresented minorities majoring in computer science.

UCLA, Stanford University and international partners have received $13.5 million to turn an innovative particle accelerator design dubbed the 'accelerator-on-a-chip' into a fully functional and scalable working prototype.

American Academy of Pediatrics gives $4.1 million to help more families nationwide manage their health needs.

The UCLA Earth scientist and collaborators will create a complex west-coast model to explore solutions for this growing threat to marine life.

The assistant professor of social welfare studies LGBT social networks, which can contribute to health outcomes.

Darcie Denkert Notkin and Shelby Notkin's matching grant brought total gifts to $425,000.

Dan and Rae Emmett matching gift brings total to $1 million.

Participants in this month's 13th annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer helped raise $600,000 for a UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center program to assist low-income or uninsured women with or at risk for the disease.

The gift will provide up to $6,500 a year for research in the population sciences.

UCLA researchers have won a $1 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop lightweight, portable and cost-effective imaging devices that can quantify and characterize nano-size objects.

Teens who are hospitalized now have their own space to hang out with friends, listen to music, play games and watch movies, thanks to a generous donation from Northwestern Mutual and Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Hyundai Hope On Wheels and Los Angeles area Hyundai dealers awarded Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA a $250,000 Hyundai Scholar Grant for pediatric cancer research.

Soraya de Chadarevian, a professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, has been awarded an NSF grant to explore the history of genetics research.

The UC Office of the President has awarded a multi-campus research programs and initiatives grant of $1.07 million over four years to establish the Consortium for Black Studies in California.

UCLA faculty are invited to apply for a newly established $25,000 Faculty Climate Action Champion Award.

Amit Sahai, UCLA professor of computer science, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from DARPA to develop software that can't be hacked.