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Rachel Moran, dean of the UCLA School of Law, has been appointed to the newly formed American Bar Association Task Force on the Financing of Legal Education.

David Jentsch, UCLA professor of psychiatry and psychology, and Dario Ringach, professor of neurobiology and psychology, have received the 2014 Biomedical Research Leadership Award from the California Biomedical Research Association.

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

UCLA education professor emeritus John Hawkins has been appointed a Distinguished International Professor at East China Normal University.

A guest house designed by Steven Christensen, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, was selected by the American Institute of Architects for its Emerging Professionals Exhibition in Washington, D.C.

UCLA professor of history Mary Terrall has published a new book, 'Catching Nature in the Act.'

Michael Lens, assistant professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has received awards from both the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate for his research in housing policy.

Patricia Gándara, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, has been selected as the 2014 Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University’s School of Education.

Sandra Harding, UCLA professor of education and gender studies, has been honored with the 2013 John Desmond Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

UCLA professor Fernando Torres-Gil has been named to the California Social Work Hall of Distinction by the California Social Welfare Archives.

UCLA professor of physics and astronomy Ni Ni has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.

UCLA professor of architecture and urban design Sylvia Lavin's 'Everything Loose Will Land' explores the dynamic intersection of architecture and the visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s. The exhibit is at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.

Professor Peter Sellars of UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance has won the 2014 Polar Music Prize, has been named 2014-15 director-in-residence of the English National Opera and will be honored by the New York Park Avenue Armory this fall.

David Heber, UCLA professor emeritus of medicine and founding director of the UCLA Center for Nutrition, was inducted into the 2014 Class of Fellows of the American Society for Human Nutrition.

Kathleen L. Komar, UCLA professor of comparative literature, will receive the 2014 Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership from the UC Academic Council and the Assembly of the Academic Senate.

Sarah Stein, UCLA professor of history, has published a new book about the marginalization of Jewish communities in southern Algeria by French authorities.

UCLA professor of bioengineering, electrical engineering and surgery Dr. Warren Grundfest has been named the winner of the Pierre Galletti Award by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

UCLA physicians Dr. Mario Deng and Dr. Martin Cadeiras are partnering with students of UCLA and Marymount High School to create an art therapy program to help patients receiving heart failure treatment.

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected the 2014 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award. They join a very select group of UCLA’s finest teachers.

Two UCLA emeriti professors, pediatric surgeon Dr. Eric Fonkalsrud and Howard Suber of the School of Theater, Film and Television, have been selected to receive the 2014 Dickson Award, one of the highest awards given to emeriti faculty at UCLA.

Eight UCLA faculty members are among the newest class elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.

UCLA social scientists Miriam A. Golden and Robin D.G. Kelley are among an esteemed group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Sarah Haley, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for 2014-15.

Dean Judy Olian of the UCLA Anderson School of Management joined other leaders of top business schools for a meeting with White House senior advisers on April 16 to discuss best practices for the 21st-century workplace.

The efforts of Christine Littleton, UCLA vice provost of diversity and faculty development and professor of law and gender studies, and Susan Drange Lee, director of diversity and faculty development, are highlighted in a new book from the Association for Women in Science.