awards and honors

The professor and chair of the UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has made significant contributions to earthquake science.

The UCLA Alumni Association has paid tribute to the university's distinguished luminaries since 1946.

Professor Christine Borgman’s “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” has won the the 2016 PROSE Awards in the computing and information sciences category.

The Distinguished Professor and John Muir Memorial Chair of Geography has also been elected president of the American Association of Geographers.

The award is given for outstanding contributions in computer and information science and engineering.

An authority on synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, Jung and has 60 patents and applications, including an FDA-approved drug that can slow or stop the progression of prostate cancer.

A professor at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Ponce's study found income inequality in the use of a technique to guide chemotherapy decisions in early-stage breast cancer.

Three outstanding young professors from UCLA are among 126 scientists and scholars to receive the prestigious honor from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Mangione will join a diverse group of national xperts working to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.

Leonard Kleinrock, Dan Goebel, Amit Sahai and Todd Millstein were honored at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science's 2015 awards dinner.

Channing Dungey, visiting assistant professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and an alumna,  has been named the president of the ABC Entertainment Group.

Raghu Meka, an assistant professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Jane Margolis, senior researcher at UCLA’s Center X, has been named one of nine “White House Champions of Change for Computer Science Education” for her work in computer science education for women and students of color.

Adriana Galván will receive the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, which honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology.

The Alan B. Slifka Foundation has awarded a grant to Noah Federman, member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate professor of pediatric hematology/oncology.

The new UNESCO chair was officially announced at a celebration marking the 70th anniversary of UNESCO and featured Director-General Irina Bokova.

The Assistant Vice Chancellor, Campus Life, is honored for 'incredible achievements in the field of collegiate recreation.'

The annual award recognizes a mid-career faculty who has demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in undergraduate teaching and research.

In terms of number of faculty named, UCLA ranks 10th among all universities and research institutions worldwide and sixth in the U.S.

UCLA Alumni Association is accepting nominations through Jan. 6, 2016.

Harran was honored for building new chemical compounds that are used to drive scientific research; Black for his study of genetic regulation at the RNA level.

Garg is known for emphasizing the creativity and problem-solving that organic chemistry requires and its relevance in students’ lives.

Paul Barber, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has partnered with the California Science Center and GRAMMY-winning singer Jack Johnson to bring global attention to the Coral Triangle.

The award to Dr. Antoni Ribas recognizes his groundbreaking research developing new immunotherapies that utilize the human body's own natural defenses to fight cancer.

Dr. David Shackelford, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a Research Career Development Award by STOP CANCER.