Jia-Ming Liu, associate dean for academic personnel at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a 2020 Yushan Scholar by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
Rong Fu, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and Gregory Okin, professor of geography, have been selected as 2020 American Geophysical Union fellows.
Samanvaya Srivastava, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation award.
The event will cover campus updates on the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County and campus guidelines to mitigate the spread of the virus.
Casey Reas, professor of design media arts, is also exhibiting work at the Honor Fraser gallery’s current group exhibition, “Thin as Thorns, In These Thoughts in Us.”
The association, which is the world’s largest scientific society, honored the UCLA faculty members for their efforts to advance science or its applications.