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Dr. Janet Pregler, director of the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center, has been named a “Women of the Year” honoree by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Dr. Neal Baer, adjunct professor in the UCLA Department of Community Health Sciences and co-director of the Global Media Center for Social Impact, is a television writer and producer as well as pediatrician.

John Villasenor, professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, told a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday, March 15, that Congress might want to consider a deliberate approach to any attempts to legislate the use of unmanned aircraft.

Four UCLA faculty members are part of the institute’s 2017 class.

March 10 marked the official publication of UCLA history professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s latest book, “Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800.”

Four UCLA architecture and urban design faculty and three alumni have been invited to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial, which will run from Sept. 16, 2017, to Jan. 7, 2018.

Following the retirement of UCLA Associate Dean Carlos Grijalva, professors Susan Ettner and Norma Mendoza-Denton have been appointed associate deans in the Graduate Division.

As part of Desert X, a contemporary art exhibition in Palm Springs, UCLA art professor Jennifer Bolande provides a cinematic experience for passersby animated by driving along the Gene Autry Trail.

UCLA Professor of Education Tyrone Howard has been selected as one of 14 2017 AERA Fellows by the American Educational Research Association.

Assistant adjunct professor of ethnomusicology and renowned tabla player Abhiman Kaushal was featured on White Sun’s Grammy award winning album “White Sun II.”

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a distinguished professor of law at both the UCLA School of Law and Columbia University Law School.

Steven Christensen is an architect and lecturer at UCLA.

"The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts" is an exhibition curated by world arts and cultures/dance professor Polly Nooter Roberts.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam was honored by the Université catholique de Louvian in Belgium.

The Association for Asian American Studies recently honored Grace Hong and Min Zhou for their publications.

On behalf of the National Science Foundation, Andrea Bertozzi will be one of the NSF-funded scientists who will be featured for making an impact on the real work with her discoveries.

UCLA chemistry professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2017 Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Richard Strassberg’s 2016 book, “Thirty Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints,” translates the Kangxi emperor’s “Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat,” written to commemorate the emperor's new summer palace.

A piano professor in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Inna Faliks has been named to Stony Brook University’s list of outstanding alumni 40 years of age or younger.

Social welfare research professor Yeheskel “Zeke” Hasenfeld and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs alumna Eve Garrow have been named winners of the Social Service Review’s 2017 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize.

UCLA architecture professor Greg Lynn, renown for his visionary designs, is one of the principles behind a new robotic product that is being launched this month by Piaggio Fast Forward.

UCLA's Priyanga Amarasekare, professor of  ecology and evolutionary biology, does research that focuses on how the interplay between abiotic environmental variation and biotic interactions influences ecological and evolutionary dynamics.

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at UCLA, has received an R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

UCLA professor Daniel Blumstein has been named this year’s recipient of the Animal Behavior Society’s Quest Award, given to recognize outstanding seminal contributions to the science of animal behavior.

The Cornell Tech campus, part of which has been designed by UCLA architecture professor Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis, has been named one of Business Insider’s top seven mega-projects that will transform New York City.