awards and honors

The prominent cancer researcher is honored for his invention of the breast cancer drug Herceptin.

Q&A with John Agnew, distinguished professor of geography and Italian at UCLA, who was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize.

Adriana Galván and Dr. Shafali Jeste have been honored for their “exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.”

The 2019 Scholarship and Awards Recognition Ceremony paid tribute to those who support the UCLA mission through their work.

Dr. Zhijian (James) Chen of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is the recipient. Chen has performed groundbreaking work on the mechanisms underlying the cellular response to infection.

All four UCLA hospitals were recognized for a commitment to LGBTQ-centered care.

Evolutionary geneticist is being honored for his record of undergraduate teaching, research and university service.

Awards will be presented June 8 at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.

Flint has been named a fellow of the society, a prestigious academy that includes some of the world’s most eminent scientists.

Johnson was elected in recognition of her “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

Graduate students Kyle McCloskey and Cary Simowitz and alumnus Sean McCord were recognized as during the 2019 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

UCLA’s Keith Holyoak takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying human intelligence, critical thinking and creativity.

Elisabeth Le Guin, Catherine Opie, Sylvan Oswald, and Lothar von Falkenhausen were selected for the honor.

Maj. Steve Kwon, Maj. Tyrone Vargas, Romeo Miguel and Victoria Sanelli received recognition from the U.S. Army Cadet Command for their bravery.

Nathan Mallipeddi was honored for his work helping students who stutter. David Nguyen was cited for his work helping transfer students go to graduate school.

Denis Chetverikov, Yongjie Hu and Aaswath Raman are among 126 early-career scientists and scholars from across the United States and Canada selected to receive fellowships.

The driving force behind the development of Herceptin will split a $1 million prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Sjöberg Foundation.

Q&A with Melissa Reider-Demer who was honored by the health care organization Press Ganey, which promotes clinical safety, patient experience and workforce engagement.

Dr. David Sabatini, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist and associate director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, earned the 2018 Switzer Prize for his research into influences on cell growth.

Martin Luther King Jr. once hailed Lawson as the world’s leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.

A new report identifies researchers in 21 fields whose work was most often referenced by other papers from 2006 to 2016.

They are among 416 members so honored by the association for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

Recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Awards were honored by the Academic Senate at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching awards ceremony.

Weizhe Hong studies how animals exhibit a broad range of complex social interaction that are crucial to their survival and well-being.

A pioneer in her field, Dr. Linda Liau is only the second woman in the nation — and the first Asian-American woman — to chair an academic department of neurosurgery.