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Greg Carman, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Professor Rachelle Crosbie-Watson received the 2014 Lotus Award from Coalition Duchenne for her outstanding contributions to Duchenne muscular dystrophy education, research and awareness.

The premiere of the grand opera 'La Paloma y el Ruiseñor' in Mazatlán, Mexico, earned accolades for UCLA professors Roger Bourland and Mitchell Morris.

UCLA professor emeritus John Hawkins delivered keynote addresses on issues in higher education in during a recent visit to Asia.

Dr. Amy Rosenman has been installed as the new president of the American Urogynecologic Society, the nation's largest professional scientific organization devoted to the field of pelvic floor disorders.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA Law’s David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor, has received a three-year appointment as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.

Rita Effros was installed as president of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. Efrros is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

UCLA Law professor Gerald P. López has received the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his commitment to public stewardship.

Mona Simpson, professor of English and one of UCLA’s most celebrated faculty authors, has published a new novel, "Casebook," elucidating the inner workings of a family in Santa Monica, California.

In her new book, “Resilience and Aging,” UCLA geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Helen Lavretsky says a person’s negative reaction to stress can be offset by enhanced resilience — the ability to bounce back from adversity.

UCLA information studies professor Johanna Drucker has published a new book, 'Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production,' which she outlines the importance of learning to interpret how visual forms not only present knowledge but produce it.

UCLA urban planning professor Susanna Hecht has been awarded the Elinor Melville Prize for the best book on Latin American environmental history.

The work of Nobel Laureate Lloyd Shapley, UCLA professor emeritus in the departments of mathematics and economics, will appear in 'The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2014.'

James Welling, a professor of photography at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, is exhibiting his work at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Julia Koerner, a lecturer in the department of architecture and urban design, received the Rising Star Award at the Global 3d Printing Awards, given by the 3d Print Show London 2014.

Professor Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, is being recognized for excellence in community service by MALDEF, the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization.

UCLA professor Peter Narins has been elected president of the International Society for Neuroethology. Narins is a distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, as well as ecology and evolutionary.

Kathleen McGarry, professor and chair of UCLA's department of economics, has been named a 2014-15 visiting scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's oldest and most recognized academic honor society.

UCLA professor emeritus of music Roger Bourland, a renowned composer and musician, will premiere his grand opera,  “La Paloma y el Ruiseñor,” at the Teatro Angela Peralta in Mazatlán, Mexico, on Nov. 14.

UCLA engineering professors Mani Srivastava and Tyson Condie of are part of a new NIH Center of Excellence to enable the use of big data computing in the biomedical sciences to advance human health.

Aaron Panofsky, associate professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named the 2014-15 Kenneth L. Sokoloff Fellow at the UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy.

UCLA professor Rebecca Allen, an internationally recognized artist, research scientist and pioneer in 3D computer graphics, has been named chair of the Department of Design Media Arts.

Acclaimed artist Barbara Kruger, a professor of art at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, will be honored at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2014 Art+Film Gala on Nov. 1.

Dr. Daniel Siegel, a UCLA clinical professor of psychiatry, has published a new book, 'No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind.'

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, will chair “Demographic Shifts and Impacts on Education,” at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Education.