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Kang Wang, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering, is received the 2015 Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding Research Award.

UCLA architecture and urban design professor Sylvia Lavin curated the exhibition at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the historic Schindler House in West Hollywood.

Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has been reelected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors for 2015-16.

Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA education professor, has been appointed by UNESCO as the inaugural chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education.

Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, will appear on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on July 15 as co-host of a tribute to the archive, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Asad Madni, Distinguished Adjunct Professor in UCLA's department of electrical engineering, has been inducted as an eminent member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of electrical engineers.

Diane Favro, UCLA professor of architecture and urban design, has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Diana Bontà, adjunct professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded the Hispanics in Philanthropy Giver Award for her leadership in health funding in California.

Professor Sudipto Banerjee, chair of the department of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a 2015 Distinguished Achievement Medal by the American Statistical Association.

Dr. Clarence Braddock III, vice dean for education and chief medical education officer at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named chair of the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine. 

This year on Independence Day, Eugene Volokh, professor at UCLA School of Law, was one among 38 naturalized citizens to be recognized by the organization as part of its “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” initiative.

Dr. Alan Felsenfeld, a professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was appointed chair of the American Dental Association’s Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition.

Social welfare assistant professor from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Ian Holloway has been selected as a 2015-16 Hellman Fellow for his research.

MarySue Heilemann, associate professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, will present the 2015 National Institute of Nursing Research Lecture on June 24 at the National Institutes for Health.

Beverly Lynch, professor of information studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, has received the 2015 Beta Phi Mu Award from the American Library Association.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been selected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching until 2019.

Danovitch, medical director of UCLA’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, received the award that honors finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education.

UCLA adjunct professor Mark Gold has been appointed associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability, effective July 1.

President Barack Obama today named UCLA physicist Claudio Pellegrini as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, a Presidential Award and one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.

Professors Ian Larkin, Danny Oppenheimer and Bruce Carlin of the UCLA Anderson School of Management are being recognized for excellence in teaching, research, leadership and mentorship.

Pedro Noguera, currently the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Rebeca Méndez, a professor in UCLA’s Department of Design|Media Arts, is a member of a design team selected to design the Tucson January 8 Memorial and the El Presidio Park master plan. 

Neil Garg, professor and vice chair for education in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has won the 2015 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, sponsored by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA.

UCLA’s 2015-16 Distinguished Teaching Awards to non-Academic Senate faculty, teaching assistants have been announced.

Miguel Garcia-Garibay, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected by UCLA Staff Assembly to receive the 2015 Faculty-Staff Partnership Award.