grants and gifts

As we head into the holidays and prepare to usher in 2025, Newsroom takes a look back at the accomplishments of the Bruin community and the highlights of 2024.

The grant from The Marcus Foundation will support research on restoring sensory function and feeling.

It’s that time again — an opportunity to take stock of a year filled with awe-inspiring achievements and more than a few surprises, and to celebrate the accomplishments of our entire Bruin community.

The funding will support student research, faculty development and bolster activities that promote a sense of community.

“By blending science and transformative awareness-raising, this collaboration is helping to save lives,” said life sciences dean Tracy Johnson.

The center will study the impacts of automated vehicles and new mobility technologies on the nation’s evolving transportation system.

The Academy Award–winning actor is an alumnus of the school.

The funds will support undergraduate, graduate and faculty activities.

The new space “will enable the development of a new generation of cellular therapies,” said Dr. Antoni Ribas.

The seven grants from the California Bureau of Cannabis Control will support research on health, policy and labor issues.

The gift from Hellman Fellows Fund will permanently endow the campus’s program, which supports research by junior faculty.

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

Supported by a grant from the NEH, curators will draw from multiple collections that help tell the story of Mexican-American lives from 1940 through the present day.

The interdisciplinary institute is the first initiative of its size and scope. It is being created with a $20 million gift from the estate of philanthropist and entrepreneur Kirk Kerkorian.

National Science Foundation grant supports the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey in bringing together young scholars from across the country.

The funds, from the J. Yang and Family Foundation, will provide scholarships and bolster research and curriculum development.

Center will bring together academic researchers, students and health care executives and practitioners to explore critical issues in the management of health care organizations.

Funds will be directed to the the UCLA Labor Center and the UCLA Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education.

The five-year award is intended to fund a research project that addresses the needs of both patients and caregivers.

The five-year project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will involve three projects to investigate factors that accelerate and prevent the re-emergence of HIV.

Xinshu (Grace) Xiao, UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology, is among 33 outstanding scientists nationwide to be awarded a grant to expand the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded Andrea Fraser, professor of art at UCLA, a $40,000 unrestricted grant, one of four given to visual artists.

Veronica Santos, UCLA associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a $719,000 grant from the Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research.

Dr. Joel Braslow and Philippe Bourgois of the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities at UCLA’s Semel Institute have won a three-year, $1 million grant from the L.A. County Department of Mental Health to study how the county deploys urgent psychiatric care.

The internationally respected center enables UCLA scientists to work together across disciplines to accelerate progress in and deepen insights gained from demographic and population research.