UCLA honors Laurie and Steven Gordon with Fiat Lux Award
The couple’s philanthropic support and volunteer leadership have enriched UCLA for more than two decades.
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UCLA’s Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center recognized as national model
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Professors Heather Maynard, Harryette Mullen and Daniel Treisman are among the 270 inductees for 2023.
15 faculty projects earn Chancellor’s Arts Initiative grants
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
Marinza Marzouk, Monica Soliman and Samuel Zamora were among only 16 students nationally chosen for the awards.
Professor elected to National Academy of Medicine
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
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
The honor recognizes his foundational studies in the fields of helio- and asteroseismology.