The 24-hour marathon reading in the Powell Library courtyard will feature Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower.”
If the same change were made by all of the U.S., it would account for one-third of the greenhouse gas reduction prescribed in the 2013 President’s Climate Action Plan.
Paul Weiss, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, received the 2019 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Three faculty were elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and one professor was elected to the Association of American Physicians.
A team of UCLA-led researchers has received support from the National Institutes of Health to develop strategies for smoking cessation among high-risk, hospitalized patients.
The award honors emeriti professors for scholarly work or educational service performed, since retirement, in the fields of humanities or social sciences.
Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, was elected for his seminal contributions to causal inference in statistics and contributions to artificial intelligence.