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The center, which is based in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, includes faculty who work with immigrant communities in California and faculty who collaborate in more than 50 countries.

Chee Wei Wong has received the 2018 NIH trailblazer award for new and early stage investigators.

Amy Richlin received a C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit for her book “Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy.”

Ross Szabo will be speaking at the second Global Summit for Mental Health Culture Change in London on Oct. 12.

Pamela Hieronymi served as a consultant to Michael Schur, creator of the hit NBC sitcom, sharing insights into moral and ethical belief systems.

Ali Behdad hopes to lead the center to think about the Middle East in a global context, one that takes into account the region and its many diasporas.

Hartsock pioneered the role making sure the university listened to the entire campus community.

Waugh, who was named to the role in 2008, will step down effective June 30, 2019.

Bruin Commuter Transit Benefit earned the Commuting Options in Public Transit award from the Association for Commuter Transportation.

Andrew Goldstein, an assistant professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology and urology at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, received the Giants of Science Hope award.

Sudipto Banerjee, professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was honored by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

Elihu Abrahams, UCLA distinguished adjunct professor of physics and astronomy, has been honored by the American Physical Society.

UCLA employees will now have a UCPath ID alongside their UCLA ID.

UCLA professor and prize-winning writer took great pride in his immigrant, working class origins.

Caroline Beghein joins the agency’s InSight team, which will study of Mars’ crust, mantle and core using seismic data.

The Hammer Museum at UCLA is hosting a conversation in which participants will discuss what L.A. can learn from Mexico City, Tokyo and Shanghai.

UCLA’s Dr. Kenneth Wells, the David Weil Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, is the recipient of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize.

Brian Benson, director of entrepreneurship and commercialization at Magnify, has been honored with a Life Science Catalyst Award from Biocom.

The grant will be used create a program to help train the next generation of scientific leaders to use “big data” to tackle complex societal problems.

Mark Kaplan will serve a four-year term on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

David Neelin, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, directs a new multi-institutional research project.

Dr. Patricia Lester was recognized for her research on trauma prevention.

Under the expansion, UCLA will share new models of care for the elderly, such as those for falls prevention and for Alzheimer’s and other dementias, with other locations.

Steven Wallace, professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was honored with the inaugural Mario Gutierrez Award on Migrant Health.

UCLA’s Nancy Wayne and David Yoo have been named ACE Fellows for the 2018-19 academic year by the American Council on Education.