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Smadar Naoz, assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been selected to receive a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Dan Goebel and Gabor Temes have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. The award recognizes contributions and innovations to engineering research, practice or education. 

Asad Abidi has been chosen as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2015 by UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Troy Ratcliff and Veronica Ochoa were named Medical Assistants of the Year by the UCLA Ambulatory Care nursing team.

UCLA associate professor Marissa López has been named as one of 30 fellows in the New Leaders Project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Dr. Philip Levin has been appointed chief medical officer of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.

UCLA education professor Li Cai has won an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.

A research paper by Jason Cong, a Chancellor’s Professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, was selected as the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper in the 2015 Asia South-Pacific Design Conference.

UCLA engineering faculty members Yang Yang and Richard Kaner have been named 2015 fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

Dr. Richard Jackson, a professor of environmental health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Jonathan Furner has assumed the post of chair of information studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Professor Philip Kellman of the UCLA Department of Psychology was invited by the White House to participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C.

UCLA Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was among eight faculty members in the school who were featured in Education Week’s annual “Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.”

Sarah Stein has been awarded a National Jewish Book Award for her work as the co-author of "Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950." Stein was honored in the category of Sephardic culture and was given the Mimi S. Frank Award. 

UCLA History professor Brenda Stevenson, has received the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism from Womensenews.org.

Yoram Cohen, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named interim director of the Y and S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in the UCLA International Institute.

A paper published in JAMA Neurology by Dr. Brent Fogel, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, was cited as a “Best Advances of 2014” by the editorial advisory board of Neurology Today.

UCLA chemistry and physics professor Thomas Mason’s 'LithoPartical Dispersions: Colloidal Alphabet Soup' is on exhibit at the Boston Society of Architects Space.

Smadar Naoz, UCLA assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the prestigious 2015 American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Prize for outstanding research.

Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a professor of pediatrics, has been appointed by the United States Government Accountability Office to the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Payment and Access Commission.

UCLA Anderson's Edward Leamer received an award for outstanding antitrust litigation achievement in economics.

Jens Lindemann, professor of trumpet at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was named to the Order of Canada for his skill as a world-renowned trumpet soloist.