Barbara Fuchs is also the guiding force behind UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics program, which has become an important resource for Spanish-language Golden Age Theater.
Helga Leitner, professor of geography at UCLA, received the 2019 Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the American Association of Geographers for her research and contributions to the field.
Ciprian Manolescu was recognized by the American Mathematical Society for his paper that was published in one of the society’s primary research journals.
Jennifer Poulakidas, who earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology with specialization in business and administration from UCLA in 1989, will begin her role April 1.
Charlene Villaseñor Black will use the funds to study the 21 missions and create a new field of studies that will incorporate Native American and Chicano perspectives.
Lawrence Zipursky, distinguished professor of biological chemistry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will be honored with the 19th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize,
Peipei Ping, professor of physiology, medicine and bioinformatics at UCLA, was named co-recipient of the 2018 Clinical and Translational Proteomics Award.
UCLA’s Kevan Harris has won the Nikki Keddie Book Award and the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize for “A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran.”
“Adrian Piper: Concepts and Intuitions, 1965–2016,” which closes Jan. 6, features more than 270 works of drawing, photography, multimedia installations, sculptures and more.
Dr. Reza Ardehali, Dr. Siavash Kurdistani and Dr. Maureen Su have joined one of the oldest and most esteemed nonprofit honor societies of physician-scientists.