UCLA honors Laurie and Steven Gordon with Fiat Lux Award September 27, 2023 The couple’s philanthropic support and volunteer leadership have enriched UCLA for more than two decades.
UCLA’s Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center recognized as national model July 21, 2023 Chancellor Gene Block and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt attended the year-end celebration of the health and well-being-focused initiative.
4 professors receive 2023 Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars June 29, 2023 Each winning faculty member will receive $10,000 to create a new UCLA course in which students will collaborate with partners in the community.
Chemist Anastassia Alexandrova receives 2023 Gold Shield Faculty Prize June 22, 2023 The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research and service.
UCLA students’ app for 2028 Olympic Games wins inaugural Innovation Challenge June 20, 2023 The competition, organized by UCLA, Amazon and consulting firm Slalom, introduces students to new ways of using technology to address critical issues.
Class of COVID: Leah Likin dives deep into pandemic anxieties with her honors project May 26, 2023 The graduating psychology student has been honored with a Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity.
UCLA honors 3 professors whose research has benefited society May 24, 2023 Yousef Bozorgnia, Sharon Dolovich and Aaron Littman will receive Public Impact Research Awards at a June 2 ceremony.
UCLA Alumni Association pays tribute to Bruins who have made an impact May 10, 2023 The UCLA Awards ceremony will take place May 13 at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center on campus.
4 faculty members inducted into National Academy of Sciences for 2023 May 3, 2023 UCLA’s newest honorees are Miguel García-Garibay, Leonid Kruglyak, Gary Segura and Min Zhou.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 3 UCLA faculty members April 20, 2023 Professors Heather Maynard, Harryette Mullen and Daniel Treisman are among the 270 inductees for 2023.
15 faculty projects earn Chancellor’s Arts Initiative grants April 19, 2023 The honored work ranges from a celebration of celebrates Black fashion in Los Angeles to a first-of-its-kind art restitution program.
5 UCLA professors receive 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships April 7, 2023 The honorees are Michael Berry, Scott Cummings, Prineha Narang, Alex Purves and Michael Rothberg.
UCLA Geffen Academy student named finalist in Regeneron Science Talent Search February 22, 2023 August Deer, whose research helped speed up a machine learning technique, is the only finalist from the Los Angeles area.
7 professors named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science February 9, 2023 The honorees are Roger Wakimoto, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Kenneth Nagy, Yi Tang, Tommaso Treu, Christine Dunkel Schetter and Gary Orfield.
Bruins earn 4 Grammy Awards February 6, 2023 UCLA faculty and alumni took home honors for jazz album, opera recording and improvised jazz solo and musical theater album.
Student organization wins sustainability award December 21, 2022 UCLA’s Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science chapter received award from the national organization.
An unconventional path to ‘genius’ November 16, 2022 Martha Gonzalez, who graduated from UCLA in 1999, reflects on her journey from Boyle Heights to 2022 MacArthur fellow.
Nearly 40 UCLA scholars are among the most highly cited researchers in their fields November 15, 2022 The annual list compiled by Clarivate identifies scholars whose work has been referenced most often in studies published by other researchers.
Dysmus Kisilu wins UCLA’s Pritzker Award for environmental innovators November 11, 2022 The Kenyan entrepreneur and his company, Solar Freeze, receive a $100,000 prize for reducing food waste.
7 graduate students selected for Fulbright-Hays Fellowship November 9, 2022 The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, gives awardees the opportunity to study aspects of a society or societies.
UCLA honored for innovation, economic impact November 8, 2022 The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities recognizes school as an Innovation & Prosperity University for commitment to region, workforce.
3 UCLA undergrads receive prestigious NIH scholarships November 3, 2022 Marinza Marzouk, Monica Soliman and Samuel Zamora were among only 16 students nationally chosen for the awards.
Professor elected to National Academy of Medicine October 17, 2022 Dr. Arleen Brown, professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at UCLA, received the honor Oct. 17.
Oleg Itskhoki is a rising star in economics October 13, 2022 Earlier this year, the UCLA professor won the John Bates Clark Medal, one of the most prestigious honors in his field.
UCLA professor Roger Ulrich shares Kavli Prize in astrophysics June 1, 2022 The honor recognizes his foundational studies in the fields of helio- and asteroseismology.