awards and honors

These awards are the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.

The award, established in 1974, honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease that has contributed to the substance of medicine.

Boeing Company’s retired chairman, CEO and president W. James McNerney Jr. is as the 10th recipient of the John Wooden Global Leadership Award.

Mona Jarrahi is being recognized for her work researching terahertz-based imaging technologies.

The appointments of Dr. Kelsey Martin and Dr. Anne L. Coleman honor achievements and service in medicine and health care.

The Norman Sprague Professor of Biological Chemistry at the School of Medicine gives the UCLA Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 13.

The UCLA professor emeritus, who directed the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, was honored with two others for designing and developing molecular machines.

Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough Awards are given to recognize "the research, innovators, scientists and students who've made the world a little better this year."

For his remarkable body of work, Gerry Laviña has been named the 2016 Social Worker of the Year by the California chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams, will lead the design and engineering work needed to build the first presidential library that will be located in a predominantly African-American urban setting.

This professor of art history and Chicana/o studies received the 2016 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, given by the Gold Shield Alumnae of UCLA to a mid-career faculty member with outstanding accomplishments.

Burton is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,.

UCLA urban planning professor Brian Taylor has been named National Associate of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, for his longtime service to the organization’s research board.

Journalists from across the nation gathered Tuesday night at Capitale in New York for the presentation of the annual awards, presented by the UCLA Anderson School.

One honoree, UCLA alumna Kelly Dumke, is already working on the front lines in communities in L.A. County against a well-known and entrenched enemy, early childhood obesity.

Witte’s accomplishments include impactful scientific discoveries, advocacy for science education funding and exemplary leadership.

More than 90 employees from Facilities Management and Housing and Hospitality Services celebrated their success in improving their English language skills.

The undergraduates each received $1,000 at a ceremony and reception held May 31 at the Pavilion Club in Pauley Pavilion. All proceeds will be directed to a public service project of the awardees’ choice.

UCLA professor of design media arts Jennifer Steinkamp has created an animation featuring thousands of flowers that is now playing on electronic billboards in Times Square.

UCLA graduate student Tyler Watson has been honored by University of California President Janet Napolitano with the President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership. He is one of three UC students who were recognized by Napolitano on May 11.

The Royal Geographical Society is awarding its Founder's Medal, one of two Royal Medals it is presenting this year, to UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs professor Michael Storper for his leadership in human and economic geography.

Since 1999, UCLA can count 19 winners of the annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which support exemplary students as they pursue graduate school.

UCLA cardiologist and molecular geneticist Dr. Stephen Young is renowned for his work on understanding mechanisms for human disease.

Members of the academy include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers and artists.

UCLA is tied for sixth in the number of honorees. In all, 178 scholars, artists and scientists from the U.S. and Canada received awards.