Samanvaya Srivastava, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation award.
The event will cover campus updates on the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County and campus guidelines to mitigate the spread of the virus.
Casey Reas, professor of design media arts, is also exhibiting work at the Honor Fraser gallery’s current group exhibition, “Thin as Thorns, In These Thoughts in Us.”
The association, which is the world’s largest scientific society, honored the UCLA faculty members for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
Mona Jarrahi was one of the five winners of the Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation Grant from the West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics.
Morgan Tingley, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and visiting graduate researcher Austin Spence were awarded the Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution.
Eric Scerri, a professor of chemistry, historian and philosopher of science at UCLA, has been ranked as the second most influential academic in the field of chemistry.
Ellen Sletten, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society Young Chemical Biologist Award.
John Thornton Caldwell, a distinguished professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, was honored by the 2020 DOC LA — Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival.