grants and gifts

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

UCLA’s BRITE Center for Science, Research and Policy has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to address the delivery of mental health services under the Affordable Care Act.

Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute have received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

In response to the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill disaster, UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Science professors, Jeroen Molemaker and James McWillams, have been awarded $2 million by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.

The UCLA Anderson School of Management has received a $1.5 million gift to establish the Donnalisa and William M. Barnum, Jr. Endowed Term Chair in Management.

Professor of medicine Betty Tsao, on faculty in the division of rheumatology and arthritis at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and a member of the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center, received a research grant from the Lupus Foundation of America.

SELFA Inc., a health care technology company cofounded and based on research by Chi On Chui, UCLA associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, won a $1.65 million grant from the NIH.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center was awarded a $154,960 grant from the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service. The grant was awarded as a part of the department’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program, ...

A team of UCLA researchers has received a $2-million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to explore nanoscale 2DL materials that have breakthrough potential in electronics, optoelectronics, bioelectronics and energy conversion and storage.

Stacy J. Park, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a two-year, $80,000 grant by the Prevent Cancer Foundation to study the role e-cigarettes might play in the development of lung cancer.

UCLA, USC, Caltech are collaborating in creating a National Science Foundation-funded center to translate scientific and engineering research into technology for the marketplace.

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an ultra-compact X-ray free electron laser.

UCLA geographer Yongkang Xue is heading a team of researchers who have received a four-year, $2.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to look at forces driving climate change in East Asia over the next 30 years.

Dr. Sophie Deng, a corneal specialist and associate professor of ophthalmology at UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, been awarded a $700,000 grant by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.

Descendants of the namesake for UCLA's Clark Library donate family heirlooms purchased at auction of estate of notoriously reclusive relative.

Allison Carruth, associate professor of English and affiliate of UCLA's Institute of Environment & Sustainability, has been awarded a $185,000 grant from ArtPlace America to support "Play the LA River."

Alumni James D.C. Barrall and his wife created the position in honor of his parents, Raymond C. and Shirley C. Barrall.

Anastassia Alexandrova, an assistant professor in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.

Assistant professor Chandra Ford will lead a $1.5-million study by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Kaiser Permanente to examine factors preventing HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment among racial and ethnic minorities and people 50 and older.

The endowed research fund at UCLA's Asian American Studies Center will support students, community-based partnerships and a wide range of research-related activities.

Brenda Stevenson, UCLA professor of history has received the university’s 2014 Gold Shield Faculty Award for outstanding scholarship, teaching and service.

Marcus Roper, UCLA assistant professor of applied mathematics, has received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation.

Daniel Posner, UCLA professor of political science, has been awarded a grant from the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance of the United States International Agency for Development.

The Getty Foundation recently announced grants totaling $685,000 to UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, Fowler Museum, Hammer Museum, and Film and Television Archive to cover research, planning for 'Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA' in 2017. 

UCLA professor of physics and astronomy Ni Ni has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.