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Kathleen McGarry, UCLA professor of economics, will serve on the national senate for Phi Beta Kappa.

Bryonn Bain, associate professor of African American studies, was awarded the Los Angeles Theater Award for solo performance for his play, “Lyrics from Lockdown.”

Georgiana Galateanu, who teaches in the department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian languages and cultures, was honored for promoting Romanian culture.

The $150,000 grant will fund a fellowship aimed at boosting the number of rheumatologists practicing in underserved areas throughout the country.

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The UCLA professor of world arts and cultures/dance was celebrated for her sensitive and innovative translation of cultural experience into museum exhibitions. She was 58.

The idea for the project began 20 years ago, when UCLA professor Anne Andrews was researching serotonin and realized that the then-state-of-the-art methods for monitoring neurochemicals couldn’t provide data with sufficient quality.

Mark Pollock and his partner, Simone George, met UCLA’s Reggie Edgerton and discarded advice from doctors who had discouraged their pursuit of a cure.

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Thousands of Bruins will spread across Los Angeles — and this year sites around the world — for the annual day of service on Sept. 29.

Summer of 2018 included the hottest temperature recorded on the Westwood campus: 111 degrees.

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The virtual version of Alumni Day will feature most of the same events and activities of the on-campus, in-person version.

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For the past five years, more than 250 UCLA undergraduates have designed and built a small satellite that will launch into orbit to study space weather.

Carolyn Parkinson and Mason Porter will combine methods from cognitive neuroscience with research in network science in their research.

The distinguished professor of biological chemistry, who shares the honor with C. David Allis of Rockefeller University, was recognized for his groundbreaking research on gene expression.

Catherine Crespi has been appointed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute as a member of its advisory panel on clinical trials.

Chancellor Gene Block said the new report “allows us to demonstrate how every dollar invested in UCLA pays substantial dividends back to people throughout our state.”

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Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine moved 33 labs into the renovated South Tower of the Center for Health Sciences.

The findings provide additional evidence that the processing of social rewards by people with schizophrenia is disrupted, researchers say.

The publication also ranked UCLA first for economic diversity and as the best public university for veterans.

Jiann-Wen “Woody” Ju, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA, was recently presented with a lifetime achievement medal for his work.

Nzhde Agazaryan was honored for his contributions in research, education and leadership to the medical physics community.