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Most recently, he served as assistant director for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences, where he led a division with an annual budget of approximately $1.3 billion in support of core research.

The academy's members have included Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell.

The UCLA Black Alumni Association and the UCLA Afrikan Student Union invite you to hear a conversation with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hosted by Tyus Edney on Abdul-Jabbar’s new book, “Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court.”

Dr. Kelsey Martin, who recently was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, is the first woman dean of UCLA’s medical school, and she is among only a handful of women leading a medical school in the United States.

UCLA faculty members Judith Carney and Stephanie Jamison will be inducted in an October ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since 1946, the UCLA Alumni Association has recognized distinguished alumni who have continued to give back to the community even after their graduation from UCLA.

UCLA professor emerita Judith Smith has been selected to receive the 2016–2017 Carole E. Goldberg Emeriti Service Award, which includes a prize of $1,000.

UCLA and Los Angeles are collaborating on a new L.A. Sustainability Leadership Council to guide the city's efforts to build a sustainable future for Los Angeles.

Jocelyn Samuels, who advanced LGBT and civil rights in the Obama administration, will lead UCLA School of Law’s LGBT research and policy center.

The UCLA Stein Eye Institute marked its 50th anniversary and the reopening of the Jules Stein Building, recently renovated to create a state-of-the-art facility to advance UCLA’s work in the field of ophthalmology.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has created the Center for Musical Humanities to advance interdisciplinary interest in music and the humanities across the university.

A team from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs whose project focuses on age-friendly outdoor environments has been awarded an Achievement Award presented by the American Planning Association.

Dr. Jacqueline Casillas, clinical director of UCLA’s Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Program and associate director of the UCLA-LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence, has received the 2017 Unmasque Cancer Caregiver Award.

A group of 20 nurses from the medical intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center are the recipients of the 2017 National Patient Safety Foundation and DAISY Foundation Team Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

Join the UCLA Asia Pacific Center for a film screening of Felicia Lowe’s documentary, “Chinese Couplets,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 19 in the Charles E. Young Research Library presentation room.

Academic Senate has selected the recipients of the 2017-2018 Faculty Research Lectureships: 123rd Faculty Research Lecture, Michael Green (Psychiatry) 124th Faculty Research Lecture, Ellen DuBois (History).

The award is funded by a gift endowment established by the late Edward A. Dickson, a UC regent from 1913 to 1946, to honor outstanding UCLA emeriti for research, scholarly work, teaching and service.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is an internationally recognized ensemble whose mentors include the legendary Herbie Hancock, Herb Alpert and Wayne Shorter.

With an all-female ensemble, choreographers Darrian O’Reilly and Sarah Jacobs combine physical humor and idiosyncratic theatricality to animate the Fowler courtyard from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17.

Stand Up To Cancer has awarded a total of $1 million to four teams of cancer researchers to advance innovation in collaboration.

Chef Massimo Bottura, whose Osteria Francescana is among the world’s most highly regarded restaurants, will appear at the fifth annual public lecture.

Tony Award–winning playwright and activist Eve Ensler and UCLA professor and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a conversation and offer strategies for surviving the current political climate as antiracist feminists.

Robert Hill is among 16 outstanding individuals being awarded honorary degrees from the University of Toronto.

UCLA historian and author Benjamin Madley won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for his  “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873”

Dr. Abbas Ardehali, a professor of surgery and medicine, has been selected as a 2017 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.