awards and honors

The prize from the Gold Shield Alumnae awards $30,000 to an exceptional professor with a record of undergraduate teaching, research and university service.

Clarice Aiello, David Delgado Shorter and Alicia Gaspar de Alba were chosen as recipients of the 2020-21 Affordable Course Materials Initiative awards.

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda was honored by the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Thomas Rice is a distinguished professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

The Library Prize honors students who have demonstrated remarkable intellectual curiosity paired with the skills and capacities to conduct meaningful research.

Margaret Kivelson has been recognized by the Royal Society, Harvard University and University of Leicester.

Amita Sehgal, a neuroscientist at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, won the award honoring excellence in basic science research.

The work of Shelley Taylor and her colleague Susan Fiske has changed the study of how people think about themselves and the social world.

Stein, director of UCLA's Leve Center for Jewish Studies, is well known for her scholarship, writing and teaching in the field.

The team proposed a redesign of certain elements of a Los Angeles elementary school to improve its environmental sustainability.

UCLA’s honorees are Miguel García-Garibay, Jennifer Mnookin, Pedro Noguera, Lynn Vavreck, Mary Nichols and Ann Philbin.

The society is the premier organization of professional astronomers in North America.

Rivlin received the UCLA Israel Studies Award for his leadership promoting tolerance.

UCLA is tied for fifth in the number of professors honored this year as early-career scientists and scholars who are rising stars of science.

Murthy has been dean of UCLA Engineering since January 2016. She is the first woman to hold the position.

The annual awards, which are given to a diverse array of projects, foster the advancement of the arts and arts-related scholarship.

The AAAS is the world’s largest scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.

Dr. Zhijian “James” Chen won the 2019 Switzer Prize, which recognizes excellence in basic biological science.

Report from Web of Science Group identifies researchers in 21 fields whose work was most often referenced by other papers.

The native of Chad promotes environmental protections for indigenous groups through work with international organizations.

Three UCLA M.F.A. students have been awarded Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awards, which recognize scripts that demonstrate examples of real or plausible science.

Dr. Denise Aberle and Dr. Carol Mangione have earned one of the highest honors in health and medicine.

The League of American Cyclists ranks UCLA as the best university in Los Angeles for bikers.

The recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards, campus’s highest honor for teaching, were honored at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching.

The renowned scholar of race, mass incarceration and immigration said she will continue to expand the scope and scale of her social justice work.