awards and honors

August Deer, whose research helped speed up a machine learning technique, is the only finalist from the Los Angeles area.

The honorees are Roger Wakimoto, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Kenneth Nagy, Yi Tang, Tommaso Treu, Christine Dunkel Schetter and Gary Orfield.

UCLA faculty and alumni took home honors for jazz album, opera recording and improvised jazz solo and musical theater album.

UCLA’s Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science chapter received award from the national organization.

Martha Gonzalez, who graduated from UCLA in 1999, reflects on her journey from Boyle Heights to 2022 MacArthur fellow.

The annual list compiled by Clarivate identifies scholars whose work has been referenced most often in studies published by other researchers.

The Kenyan entrepreneur and his company, Solar Freeze, receive a $100,000 prize for reducing food waste.

The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, gives awardees the opportunity to study aspects of a society or societies.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities recognizes school as an Innovation & Prosperity University for commitment to region, workforce.

Marinza Marzouk, Monica Soliman and Samuel Zamora were among only 16 students nationally chosen for the awards.

Dr. Arleen Brown, professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at UCLA, received the honor Oct. 17.

Earlier this year, the UCLA professor won the John Bates Clark Medal, one of the most prestigious honors in his field.

The honor recognizes his foundational studies in the fields of helio- and asteroseismology.

The Office of Research & Creative Activities is honoring faculty for work that connects campus to local and global communities.

The expert on Russia’s current project focuses on understanding how today’s threats to democracies emerged.

The UCLA Awards ceremony will be held May 21 at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.

Dr. E. Dale Abel, Robert Bjork and Rosa Matzkin were honored for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

UCLA had the second highest number of honorees among colleges and universities this year, followed by Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT and Yale.

Recipients of the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Awards were honored by the Academic Senate and Center for the Advancement of Teaching,

Anna Sew Hoy is the area head of ceramics in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Eight young UCLA professors are among 118 scientists and scholars selected today to receive the awards.

The honorees are Nicholas Blurton-Jones, Joseph Loo, Rafail Ostrovsky and William Sandoval.

Professors continued helping us better understand our world with their research, students kept excelling and UCLA showed how it helps make Los Angeles a world-class city.

The UCLA physician and film producer was honored for his humanitarian efforts, including his work to secure recognition of the Armenian genocide.

The list is compiled based on research citations from 2010 to 2020.