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Dean Rachel Moran has been named to Lawyers of Color’s fourth annual Power List, a comprehensive catalog of the nation’s most influential minority attorneys and non-minority diversity advocates. She was profiled in the 2015 Lawyers of Color Power issue.

Gerald López was awarded the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award for his deep engagement in community lawyering and record of public service.

Raymond Knapp has been selected for the 2015 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Knapp will complete a one-month residency in Bogliasco, Italy, where he will complete his latest book on Haydn and American popular music.

Sriram Kosuri, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was honored today as a 2015 Searle Scholar, which recognizes young scientists for their contributions to chemical and biological research.

The recipient of the 2015 My Last Lecture Award is Randall Rojas, assistant adjunct professor of economics and an alumnus who holds three UCLA degrees.

Dr. Owen Witte, the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, will receive the G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, the American Association for Cancer Research announced today.

UCLA electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh received an honorary doctorate from the Universit Autònoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

Patricia Kerrigan, a cognitive intervention specialist at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, will receive the Nan Songer Distinguished Member Award from APHOES, a professional organization in her field.

Chang-Jin 'CJ' Kim, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the 2015 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering.

Noah Zatz was awarded a John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for his project proposal, 'Precarious Work in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration.'

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw of the UCLA School of Law has been named among the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Professors Patricia Gándara, Sandra Graham and Noreen Webb, all on faculty in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, have been elected to the National Academy of Education.

Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been selected a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar.

Professor emeritus Richard Roll of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has won the 2015 Onassis Prize for Finance.

UCLA professor John Villasenor testified in a U.S. Senate hearing on issues of safety and privacy in the use of unmanned aircraft systems.

Dr. Judith Baker, whose work led to the development of the first-ever hemophilia treatment centers in Nevada, Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific, was a featured guest March 13, 2015, at the signing of a proclamation declaring March to be Hemophilia Awareness Month in Guam.

Dr. Reza Ardehali, UCLA assistant professor of cardiology, received the 2015 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology.

Michael Jung, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, will receive the 2015 Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

The UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Learning has selected the 2014-2015 Senate faculty recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the highest honors given by the Senate.

Jason Torres-Rangel, chair of the English department at UCLA Community School, has been named an Inspirational Teacher of 2015 by United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

UCLA pathology professor Robert Schiestl has been named to the America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals for 2015.

UCLA architecture professor Georgina Huljich and her team at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S have won two design awards for Jujuy Redux, a mid-rise apartment building in Rosario, Argentina.

Christopher Tang, professor of decisions, operations and technology management and the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration in the UCLA Anderson School, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Law professor emeritus Gary Blasi has received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for his work in the public interest.

The book 'Immigration Outside the Law,' by UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura, has won the Association of American Publishers 2015 Professional and Scholarly Excellence Award in the Law and Legal Studies category.