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UCLA electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh received an honorary doctorate from the Universit Autònoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

Patricia Kerrigan, a cognitive intervention specialist at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, will receive the Nan Songer Distinguished Member Award from APHOES, a professional organization in her field.

Chang-Jin 'CJ' Kim, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the 2015 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering.

Noah Zatz was awarded a John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for his project proposal, 'Precarious Work in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration.'

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw of the UCLA School of Law has been named among the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Professors Patricia Gándara, Sandra Graham and Noreen Webb, all on faculty in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, have been elected to the National Academy of Education.

Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been selected a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar.

Professor emeritus Richard Roll of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has won the 2015 Onassis Prize for Finance.

UCLA professor John Villasenor testified in a U.S. Senate hearing on issues of safety and privacy in the use of unmanned aircraft systems.

Dr. Judith Baker, whose work led to the development of the first-ever hemophilia treatment centers in Nevada, Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific, was a featured guest March 13, 2015, at the signing of a proclamation declaring March to be Hemophilia Awareness Month in Guam.

Dr. Reza Ardehali, UCLA assistant professor of cardiology, received the 2015 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology.

Michael Jung, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, will receive the 2015 Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

The UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Learning has selected the 2014-2015 Senate faculty recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the highest honors given by the Senate.

Jason Torres-Rangel, chair of the English department at UCLA Community School, has been named an Inspirational Teacher of 2015 by United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

UCLA pathology professor Robert Schiestl has been named to the America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals for 2015.

UCLA architecture professor Georgina Huljich and her team at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S have won two design awards for Jujuy Redux, a mid-rise apartment building in Rosario, Argentina.

Christopher Tang, professor of decisions, operations and technology management and the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration in the UCLA Anderson School, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Law professor emeritus Gary Blasi has received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for his work in the public interest.

The book 'Immigration Outside the Law,' by UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura, has won the Association of American Publishers 2015 Professional and Scholarly Excellence Award in the Law and Legal Studies category.

Smadar Naoz, assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been selected to receive a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Asad Abidi has been chosen as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2015 by UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Troy Ratcliff and Veronica Ochoa were named Medical Assistants of the Year by the UCLA Ambulatory Care nursing team.

UCLA associate professor Marissa López has been named as one of 30 fellows in the New Leaders Project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Dr. Philip Levin has been appointed chief medical officer of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.

UCLA education professor Li Cai has won an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.