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Sandra Harding, UCLA professor of education and gender studies, has been honored with the 2013 John Desmond Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

UCLA professor Fernando Torres-Gil has been named to the California Social Work Hall of Distinction by the California Social Welfare Archives.

UCLA professor of physics and astronomy Ni Ni has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.

UCLA professor of architecture and urban design Sylvia Lavin's 'Everything Loose Will Land' explores the dynamic intersection of architecture and the visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s. The exhibit is at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.

Professor Peter Sellars of UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance has won the 2014 Polar Music Prize, has been named 2014-15 director-in-residence of the English National Opera and will be honored by the New York Park Avenue Armory this fall.

David Heber, UCLA professor emeritus of medicine and founding director of the UCLA Center for Nutrition, was inducted into the 2014 Class of Fellows of the American Society for Human Nutrition.

Kathleen L. Komar, UCLA professor of comparative literature, will receive the 2014 Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership from the UC Academic Council and the Assembly of the Academic Senate.

Sarah Stein, UCLA professor of history, has published a new book about the marginalization of Jewish communities in southern Algeria by French authorities.

UCLA professor of bioengineering, electrical engineering and surgery Dr. Warren Grundfest has been named the winner of the Pierre Galletti Award by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

UCLA physicians Dr. Mario Deng and Dr. Martin Cadeiras are partnering with students of UCLA and Marymount High School to create an art therapy program to help patients receiving heart failure treatment.

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected the 2014 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award. They join a very select group of UCLA’s finest teachers.

Two UCLA emeriti professors, pediatric surgeon Dr. Eric Fonkalsrud and Howard Suber of the School of Theater, Film and Television, have been selected to receive the 2014 Dickson Award, one of the highest awards given to emeriti faculty at UCLA.

Eight UCLA faculty members are among the newest class elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.

UCLA social scientists Miriam A. Golden and Robin D.G. Kelley are among an esteemed group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Sarah Haley, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for 2014-15.

Dean Judy Olian of the UCLA Anderson School of Management joined other leaders of top business schools for a meeting with White House senior advisers on April 16 to discuss best practices for the 21st-century workplace.

The efforts of Christine Littleton, UCLA vice provost of diversity and faculty development and professor of law and gender studies, and Susan Drange Lee, director of diversity and faculty development, are highlighted in a new book from the Association for Women in Science.

Behzad Razavi, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, has received the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education PSW Outstanding Teaching Award.

Tatsuo Itoh, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his exceptional accomplishments in innovation and invention for the benefit of society.

UCLA life scientist Kirk Lohmueller is among 15 exceptional scientists nationwide to be selected as 2014 Searle Scholar.

Denise Mann recently edited a book that examines the post-network television industry's experiments with interactive storytelling.

Dariush Divsalar, UCLA adjunct professor of electrical engineering, has been selected for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Alexander Graham Bell Medal, for, "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of channel ...

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and distinguished professor of education, and his wife, Carola Suárez-Orozco, professor of education, have been invited to speak at a conference titled, ...

Bertozzi, professor of mathematics and director of applied mathematics at UCLA, has been named the inaugural holder of UCLA's Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity.