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Ribas, who is working to create a cancer-fighting immune system, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

Associate professor Anastassia Alexandrova of the department of chemistry and biochemistry has been honored with a 2016 Rising Star Award, which recognizes exceptional women chemists on a national level.

Alexander Astin, the Allan M. Cartter Distinguished Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College Personnel.

Associate professor Heather Roberge, associate vice chair in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, is a recipient of the Emerging Voices 16 Award from the Architectural League New York.

Jenessa Shapiro, associate professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was recently named one of 2016’s "Best 40 Under 40 Professors" by Poets and Quants, a news website devoted to the coverage of business schools and MBA programs.

Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2016 distinguished lecturer by by the IEEE Photonics Society.

Yang Yang, holder of the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Chair in Engineering at UCLA, received an achievement award from the Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of California.

Fidelity Charitable, an independent public charity with one of the nation's largest donor-advised fund programs, announced that Alfred E. Osborne Jr. has been elected chair of its Board of Trustees.

The Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology has been chosen to deliver the Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture for 2017.

Chair of the UCLA Department of Urology, Litwin is recognized for his foundational work focusing on quality of life in prostate cancer survivors.

Ickx and his Mexico City-based architecture firm, Productora, received the award for 'Pavilion on the Zocalo' in Mexico City.

The awards recognize excellence in several categories, including innovation and research.

Guber teaches a class in leadership at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is also on the faculty of the School of Theater, Film and Television.

A professor of bioengineering, chemistry and biochemistry, Wong is honored for scientific achievement and original contributions advancing microbiology.

Wayne Smutz, dean of continuing education and UCLA Extension, has been named president-elect of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association.

Nile Green, the William Andrews Clark Professor of history and director of the Program on Central Asia in the UCLA International Institute, has edited a new book, “Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes,” published by Oxford University Press.

The assistant professor of dentistry was awarded for research that advances scientific knowledge in implant dentistry and tissue engineering.

Professors Walter Allen, Mitchell Chang, Robert Cooper and John Rogers were honored by the national research society.

'Transitions' was lauded for candid view of developmental adaptation of immigrant children to new cultures, languages and social structures.

As a volunteer surgeon for more than 20 years, Freymiller performs life-changing dental surgery on children with cleft lips and cleft palate deformities.

UCLA School of Law professor Kal Raustiala, director of the UCLA Ronald Burkle Center for International Relations and faculty director, UCLA International Education Office, has been elected a vice president of the American Society of International ...

A promising new discovery by UCLA scientists could lead to a new method of identifying cancer patients who express high levels of an enzyme and are more likely to respond to cancer treatments.

Dr. James Cherry, a distinguished research professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded the 2016 Bill Marshall Award.

“The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations,” a book written by UCLA professor of political science Michael Ross and published in 2012, has now been translated into three languages: Russian, Portuguese and Arabic — languages ...

Director of pediatric otolaryngology and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Shapiro is co-editor of a new book for health care professionals.