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Team of UCLA students places fifth in the annual Putnam examination, which routinely stumps some of the smartest math whizzes in the country.

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Stephanie Jamison, distinguished professor of Asian languages and cultures, has been elected to the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.

David Wong Louie's personal essay “Eat, Memory” has been selected for “The Best American Essays 2018.”

Algirdas Avizienis has been recognized for his paper that influenced the theory and practice of dependable computing.

The UCLA Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross Campus Affairs is opening applications to two funding opportunities.

Kelly Lytle Hernández is being awarded the 2018 Freedom Now Award from the Los Angeles Community Action Network.

David, Minda and Daniel Streamer defied the odds and circumstances that have made American Indians the least-represented group on college campuses nationwide.

The team performed a staggering 363 kidney transplants in 2017, more than any other transplant center in the United States, according to data.

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Their method joins a semiconductor layer and a metal electrode layer without the atomic-level defects that typically occur as part of the process commonly used now.

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Each year, scores of UCLA students volunteer through Project SPELL — for Students for Progress in Employee Language Learning — to teach English as a second language to employees.

His citation read, in part, “With elegant equations and imaginative models, you have transformed our understanding of cause and effect, probability, and uncertainty.”

Professor Judea Pearl writes about how the current data-crunching approach to machine learning misses an essential element of human intelligence.

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Forbes ranks UCLA Health No. 43 in the nation among all industries; and Becker’s Healthcare lists it among the 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare for 2018.

“Our physicians exemplify — every day — UCLA Health’s mission of delivering leading-edge patient care, research and education,” said Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health.

Sequoia Thompson, 33, graduates this month with a degree in psychology and a minor in LGBTQ studies. Her goal is to become a clinical psychologist and work with queer black youth.

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The awards, which total nearly $2.3 million, will support work by professors at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

A detailed view of its core may lead to the development of targeted drugs.

The streamlined process is part of a campus-wide civic engagement strategy, and it builds on several years of successful voter registration drives.

Some 200 UCLA medical students received their diplomas Friday, June 1, in Dickson Court at the 64th annual Hippocratic Oath Ceremony for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Instructors from the American Heart Association taught more than 700 guests how to perform hands-only lifesaving techniques.