awards and honors

The University of California was honored Tuesday as one of the world’s most innovative institutions by Clarivate Analytics, a data and analysis company that spun off from Thomson Reuters.

The Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation is given for outstanding design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy.

President Barack Obama is appointing Lothar von Falkenhausen, a UCLA professor of Chinese archaeology and art history, to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

These awards are the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.

Associate director and principal investigator for the Center for Health Policy Research, Ponce will advise the center on issues related to health care and health surveys.

The UCLA research professor of education was honored with the Research on Evaluation Award for significant accomplishments to the field.

The artist explores both personal and political issues on themes such as class, gender and race.

The UCLA neurosurgeon received the William G. Lennox Award from the American Epilepsy Society.

The award, established in 1974, honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease that has contributed to the substance of medicine.

The award recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member who has demonstrated leadership in addressing inequities in medical education and health care.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is accepting nominations for a new prize established to showcase discoveries in biological and biomedical sciences research.

Boeing Company’s retired chairman, CEO and president W. James McNerney Jr. is as the 10th recipient of the John Wooden Global Leadership Award.

A wellness specialist in integrative nutrition, Katzin works with cancer patients at the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology.

Mona Jarrahi is being recognized for her work researching terahertz-based imaging technologies.

Cheng will provide strategic and tactical leadership to technology efforts to support UCLA Health Sciences.

The assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering will apply the $360,000 award to research on nanoscale architectures and ultrafast energy diagnostics.

The Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is recognized for his leadership and scientific contributions for future fusion power plants.

Dean emerita of the Fielding School of Public Health, Rosenstock is being recognized for her distinguished contributions in public health.

Andrea Bertozzi, Subramanian Iyer, Jianwei 'John' Miao, Pietro Musumeci and Mason Porter are recognized for 'exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise.'

Stevenson is a renowned scholar in the history of slavery, particularly enslaved women, in the United States and throughout the Atlantic World.

The appointments of Dr. Kelsey Martin and Dr. Anne L. Coleman honor achievements and service in medicine and health care.

Dr. Claire Baldauf, Dr. Marjorie-Anne Guerra and Dr. Manal Habib are fellows at the Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA.

The Norman Sprague Professor of Biological Chemistry at the School of Medicine gives the UCLA Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 13.

The World Arts and Cultures professor is renowned worldwide for his innovative treatments of classical material.

Findings from a study by urban planning faculty Michael Lens and Paavo Monkkonen is included in the Housing Development Toolkit.