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Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor, was presented the annual E.O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation by the Center for Biological Diversity for her groundbreaking research on carbon dioxide’s role in climate change.

Urban Planning lecturer Stephen Commins was part of a team of researchers that wrote the World Bank’s new World Development Report for 2015, "Mind, Society and Behavior."  

Burglind Jungmann, UCLA professor of art history, has published a new book, 'Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910.'

Gonzalo Freixes of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has received the 2014 Bud Fackler Service Award from the Executive MBA Council.

Professor Ananya Roy has been appointed inaugural director of the new UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, effective July 1, 2015.

UCLA Anderson Associate Professor of Management and Organizations Jenessa Shapiro  is one of five early-career academics to be recognized by the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology with the SAGE Young Scholars Award.

Wharton Research Data Services, one of the world’s leading data research institutions, has awarded the Wharton-WRDS Best Paper Award in Empirical Research to two UCLA Anderson professors, Daniel Andrei and Bruce Carlin.

Greg Carman, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Professor Rachelle Crosbie-Watson received the 2014 Lotus Award from Coalition Duchenne for her outstanding contributions to Duchenne muscular dystrophy education, research and awareness.

The premiere of the grand opera 'La Paloma y el Ruiseñor' in Mazatlán, Mexico, earned accolades for UCLA professors Roger Bourland and Mitchell Morris.

UCLA professor emeritus John Hawkins delivered keynote addresses on issues in higher education in during a recent visit to Asia.

Dr. Amy Rosenman has been installed as the new president of the American Urogynecologic Society, the nation's largest professional scientific organization devoted to the field of pelvic floor disorders.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA Law’s David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor, has received a three-year appointment as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.

Rita Effros was installed as president of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. Efrros is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

UCLA Law professor Gerald P. López has received the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his commitment to public stewardship.

Mona Simpson, professor of English and one of UCLA’s most celebrated faculty authors, has published a new novel, "Casebook," elucidating the inner workings of a family in Santa Monica, California.

In her new book, “Resilience and Aging,” UCLA geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Helen Lavretsky says a person’s negative reaction to stress can be offset by enhanced resilience — the ability to bounce back from adversity.

UCLA information studies professor Johanna Drucker has published a new book, 'Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production,' which she outlines the importance of learning to interpret how visual forms not only present knowledge but produce it.

UCLA urban planning professor Susanna Hecht has been awarded the Elinor Melville Prize for the best book on Latin American environmental history.

The work of Nobel Laureate Lloyd Shapley, UCLA professor emeritus in the departments of mathematics and economics, will appear in 'The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2014.'

James Welling, a professor of photography at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, is exhibiting his work at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Julia Koerner, a lecturer in the department of architecture and urban design, received the Rising Star Award at the Global 3d Printing Awards, given by the 3d Print Show London 2014.

Professor Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, is being recognized for excellence in community service by MALDEF, the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization.

UCLA professor Peter Narins has been elected president of the International Society for Neuroethology. Narins is a distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, as well as ecology and evolutionary.

Kathleen McGarry, professor and chair of UCLA's department of economics, has been named a 2014-15 visiting scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's oldest and most recognized academic honor society.