grants and gifts

A three-year, $2 million-plus grant, awarded to Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, will be used to develop therapies to halt or alleviate the disabilities associated with multiple sclerosis.

The funding supports a multi-university initiative to increase the numbers of women and underrepresented minorities majoring in computer science.

UCLA, Stanford University and international partners have received $13.5 million to turn an innovative particle accelerator design dubbed the 'accelerator-on-a-chip' into a fully functional and scalable working prototype.

American Academy of Pediatrics gives $4.1 million to help more families nationwide manage their health needs.

The UCLA Earth scientist and collaborators will create a complex west-coast model to explore solutions for this growing threat to marine life.

The assistant professor of social welfare studies LGBT social networks, which can contribute to health outcomes.

Darcie Denkert Notkin and Shelby Notkin's matching grant brought total gifts to $425,000.

Dan and Rae Emmett matching gift brings total to $1 million.

Participants in this month's 13th annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer helped raise $600,000 for a UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center program to assist low-income or uninsured women with or at risk for the disease.

The gift will provide up to $6,500 a year for research in the population sciences.

UCLA researchers have won a $1 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop lightweight, portable and cost-effective imaging devices that can quantify and characterize nano-size objects.

Teens who are hospitalized now have their own space to hang out with friends, listen to music, play games and watch movies, thanks to a generous donation from Northwestern Mutual and Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Hyundai Hope On Wheels and Los Angeles area Hyundai dealers awarded Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA a $250,000 Hyundai Scholar Grant for pediatric cancer research.

Soraya de Chadarevian, a professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, has been awarded an NSF grant to explore the history of genetics research.

UCLA faculty are invited to apply for a newly established $25,000 Faculty Climate Action Champion Award.

Amit Sahai, UCLA professor of computer science, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from DARPA to develop software that can't be hacked.

Janet Frank, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a $400,000 grant to study mental health services for seniors.

UCLA associate professor Benjamin Ellingson is the 2015 recipient of a research scholar grant of $790,000 from the American Cancer Society to further develop a new imaging technique for the early identification of brain cancer tumors.

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.

Hal Hershfield, assistant professor of marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and two collaborators have been selected to receive a $200,000 research grant from the Imagination Institute.

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of society and genetics as well as environmental health sciences, has received a 2015 Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Sally Frautschy, a professor of neurology at UCLA, has received a $300,000 grant to fund her work on brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.

Hal Hershfield from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management will receive a grant from the Imagination Institute, together with Diana Tamir of Princeton University, to fund their project on exploring the imagination.

Dr. Rajan Kulkarni, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and clinical instructor in the division of dermatology, has been granted a Young Investigator Award of $75,000 on behalf of the Melanoma Research Alliance.

Five early-career researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior have been selected to receive 2015 Friends Scholars Awards of $100,000 over two years to support their research.