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Dr. Tomas Ganz, UCLA professor of medicine and pathology, will be honored by the American Society of Hematology with the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture for his groundbreaking research in iron homeostasis, including the discovery of the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin.

Steven Nelson, UCLA associate professor of art history, will be in residence at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for the 2014-15 academic year as the distinguished Cohen Fellow in Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute.

UCLA professor of art history Lothar von Falkenhausen has been appointed honorary professor at Zhejiang University in China.

Snehendu B. Kar, professor emeritus of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair award by the U.S.-India Educational Foundation.

Todd Presner, chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and professor of Germanic languages, comparative literature and Jewish Studies, has published the book, “HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities” with Harvard University Press.

Steven P. Wallace, professor and chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2013 Betty and James E. Birren Senior Scholar Award.

UCLA professor emerita Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei will be honored by the Association for Asian Performance accomplishments that include her role as a 'founding mother' of Asian theater scholarship.

Dino Di Carlo, associate professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is the recipient of the 2014 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award from Analytical Chemistry and the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.

Asad Madni, distinguished adjunct professor of engineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received the first honorary professorship ever given by the Technical University of Crete.

Professor Sabeeha Merchant has been appointed director of the UCLA-Department of Energy (UCLA-DOE) Institute, which carries out research in bioenergy, structural biology, genomics and proteomics, consistent with the research mission of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Professor Richard Roll, Distinguished Professor of Finance and the Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Ph.D. Students.

Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, presented a plenary lecture titled, “Global Citizenship Education: Hyper Globalist, Skeptic and Transformationist Agendas,” at the 2014 conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education

Dr. Gary Small received the Arthur Cherkin Award for excellence in medical care, aging research and training doctors in geriatrics.

Professor Ninez Ponce in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been named director of the school's Center for Global and Immigrant Health.

Guided mindfulness meditations by Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, are now available for television viewing by patients, visitors and staff at UCLA hospitals and medical clinics in Westwood.

Hiroshi Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, has published a new book, “Immigration Outside the Law,” which presents a framework for understanding why debates on U.S. immigration are so contentious.

Dell Upton, a UCLA professor of art history, has been named a fellow by the Society of Architectural Historians. 

Purnima Mankekar, UCLA professor of Asian American studies and gender studies, has received the 2013-14 C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA.

Marcus Roper, UCLA assistant professor of applied mathematics, has received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation.

Twenty-seven UCLA assistant professors have received the Faculty Career Development Award, which provides research support at a critical time in the pre-tenure stage. Awards are made in the form of summer ninths or lump-sum research grants of $5,000 to $10,000.

Robert Kaplan, professor emeritus of health policy and management at the Fielding School of Public Health, has been named chief science officer at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, an organization under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Behzad Razavi, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, and UCLA postdoctoral scholar Hegong Wei have received the 2013 IEEE CICC Best Paper Award.

Carol Bakhos, associate professor of late Antique Judaism and Jewish studies, has published her latest book, 'The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Interpretations,' with Harvard University Press.

Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.

Chih-Ming Ho of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected a distinguished Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.