Applause

Dr. Karin Nielsen, UCLA professor of pediatric infectious diseases, has won a prestigious Brazilian prize in health sciences.

Harold Demsetz, an emeritus professor of business economics at UCLA, has won the Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of New Institutional Economics.

Philip Rundel, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po`okela Award of Excellence for Books on Natural Science.

Ken Klee has received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Bankruptcy.

Behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi, professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is publishing ‘Thinking Smarter: Seven Steps to Your Fulfilling Retirement...and Life’ on May 12.

UCLA's Daniel Oppenheimer and Guillaume Roels, have been named among 'The World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors' by Poets and Quants.

Anthony Tolbert, director of learning environment and academic affairs and an adjunct faculty member at UCLA Law, has received the UCLA Chancellor’s Diversity Leadership Scholarship.

Debora Silverman, a professor of history and art history at UCLA, has been selected to receive a 2015-16 fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

The U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on higher education heard Charles Alexander, UCLA associate vice provost for student diversity, testify about the success of the Academic Advancement Program.

Actress Judith Moreland, an adjunct professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), conceived and co-created the school's new Professional Program in Acting for the Camera.

Ann Carlson, a visiting professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance, has been honored with the 2015 Doris Duke Artist Award.

UCLA's Judea Pearl, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Teri Schwartz, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, will be honored by the inaugural CayFilm Cayman International Film Festival with the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Producing. The festival takes place June 18-21 on ...

Dr. Clifford Ko, professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been selected to be part of a new advisory panel for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Design Media Arts professor Rebeca Méndez has been selected as one of 14 artists to create art installations that will decorate one of the stations on Metro’s forthcoming Crenshaw/LAX light rail line.

​Brenda Stevenson, a professor at UCLA who specializes in African-American history, has been appointed a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.

A UCLA stroke study on improving stroke care was selected by the Clinical Research Forum as one of the 10 most outstanding research papers written by teams from across the nation in 2014.

UCLA professors emeriti Francis Chen, Leonard Kleinrock and Antony Orme have been selected to receive the 2015 Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award.

Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, will receive Liberty Hill Foundation’s Upton Sinclair Award, given to those dedicated to advancing social justice.

Dean Rachel Moran has been named to Lawyers of Color’s fourth annual Power List, a comprehensive catalog of the nation’s most influential minority attorneys and non-minority diversity advocates. She was profiled in the 2015 Lawyers of Color Power issue.

Gerald López was awarded the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award for his deep engagement in community lawyering and record of public service.

Raymond Knapp has been selected for the 2015 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Knapp will complete a one-month residency in Bogliasco, Italy, where he will complete his latest book on Haydn and American popular music.

Sriram Kosuri, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was honored today as a 2015 Searle Scholar, which recognizes young scientists for their contributions to chemical and biological research.

The recipient of the 2015 My Last Lecture Award is Randall Rojas, assistant adjunct professor of economics and an alumnus who holds three UCLA degrees.

Dr. Owen Witte, the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, will receive the G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, the American Association for Cancer Research announced today.