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Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named to Politico magazine's "Politico 50" list of "thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction."

In August, four researchers formed Team UCLA to take part in Charity Treks, a weeklong bike ride to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research at the UCLA AIDS Institute and the Emory Vaccine Research Center.

“Whiteness as Property,” a seminal article by Cheryl Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law, will be the focus of a Critical Race Studies Symposium at UCLA Law, Oct. 2-4.

For the sixth year in a row, the UCLA School of Law has been named one of the Top 10 Best Law Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine.

Urban planning professor's articles were among the most cited and acknowledged by peers.

Photographer Catherine Opie and ethnomusicologist Daniel Neuman made the Art Career Project's list of “15 Noteworthy Art Professors in Los Angeles.”

Dr. Peter Lawrence was recently named president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Joyce Appleby's “Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination” is in the running to win the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.

James C. Liao, UCLA's Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemical Engineering, has been named to Taiwan's Academia Sinica, the preeminent academic institution in the Republic of China.

Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected to receive the 2014 Booker Fellowship.

Eli Yablonovitch, adjunct professor of electrical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected to receive the 2014 Rank Prize.

Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science in UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, received the SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award.

Professor Diana Huffaker has been selected by IEEE as a Distinguished Lecturer for year 2015 in the area of photonic devices. As a Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Huffaker will help lead the Photonics Society in technical developments that will shape ...

Christopher Tang, Distinguished Professor in Decisions, Operations and Technology Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, has been named editor-in-chief of 'Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.'

Dr. Kathryn Atchison, professor of dentistry and vice provost for new collaborative initiatives at UCLA, has been tapped to join the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) in the National Institutes of Health.

Shane Que Hee, professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has received the Volunteer Group Service Award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television made The Hollywood Reporter’s 'Top Film Schools' issue, taking the No. 3 spot — up from No. 4 last year — of 25 American schools on the list.

Professor Donald Morisky in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Tomas Ganz, UCLA professor of medicine and pathology, will be honored by the American Society of Hematology with the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture for his groundbreaking research in iron homeostasis, including the discovery of the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin.

Steven Nelson, UCLA associate professor of art history, will be in residence at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for the 2014-15 academic year as the distinguished Cohen Fellow in Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute.

UCLA professor of art history Lothar von Falkenhausen has been appointed honorary professor at Zhejiang University in China.

Snehendu B. Kar, professor emeritus of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair award by the U.S.-India Educational Foundation.

Todd Presner, chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and professor of Germanic languages, comparative literature and Jewish Studies, has published the book, “HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities” with Harvard University Press.

Steven P. Wallace, professor and chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2013 Betty and James E. Birren Senior Scholar Award.

UCLA professor emerita Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei will be honored by the Association for Asian Performance accomplishments that include her role as a 'founding mother' of Asian theater scholarship.