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An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.

A research paper by Jason Cong, a Chancellor’s Professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, was selected as the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper in the 2015 Asia South-Pacific Design Conference.

UCLA engineering faculty members Yang Yang and Richard Kaner have been named 2015 fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

Dr. Richard Jackson, a professor of environmental health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Jonathan Furner has assumed the post of chair of information studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Professor Philip Kellman of the UCLA Department of Psychology was invited by the White House to participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C.

UCLA Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was among eight faculty members in the school who were featured in Education Week’s annual “Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.”

Sarah Stein has been awarded a National Jewish Book Award for her work as the co-author of "Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950." Stein was honored in the category of Sephardic culture and was given the Mimi S. Frank Award. 

UCLA History professor Brenda Stevenson, has received the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism from Womensenews.org.

Yoram Cohen, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named interim director of the Y and S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in the UCLA International Institute.

A paper published in JAMA Neurology by Dr. Brent Fogel, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, was cited as a “Best Advances of 2014” by the editorial advisory board of Neurology Today.

UCLA chemistry and physics professor Thomas Mason’s 'LithoPartical Dispersions: Colloidal Alphabet Soup' is on exhibit at the Boston Society of Architects Space.

Smadar Naoz, UCLA assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the prestigious 2015 American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Prize for outstanding research.

Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a professor of pediatrics, has been appointed by the United States Government Accountability Office to the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Payment and Access Commission.

UCLA Anderson's Edward Leamer received an award for outstanding antitrust litigation achievement in economics.

Jens Lindemann, professor of trumpet at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was named to the Order of Canada for his skill as a world-renowned trumpet soloist.

Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor, was presented the annual E.O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation by the Center for Biological Diversity for her groundbreaking research on carbon dioxide’s role in climate change.

Urban Planning lecturer Stephen Commins was part of a team of researchers that wrote the World Bank’s new World Development Report for 2015, "Mind, Society and Behavior."  

Burglind Jungmann, UCLA professor of art history, has published a new book, 'Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910.'

Gonzalo Freixes of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has received the 2014 Bud Fackler Service Award from the Executive MBA Council.

Professor Ananya Roy has been appointed inaugural director of the new UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, effective July 1, 2015.

UCLA Anderson Associate Professor of Management and Organizations Jenessa Shapiro  is one of five early-career academics to be recognized by the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology with the SAGE Young Scholars Award.

Wharton Research Data Services, one of the world’s leading data research institutions, has awarded the Wharton-WRDS Best Paper Award in Empirical Research to two UCLA Anderson professors, Daniel Andrei and Bruce Carlin.