awards and honors

UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Isaac Yang will receive the prestigious National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Medical Student Association.

The Advisory Board Company's Consulting and Management Division announced on Tuesday that it has recognized the UCLA Health System with a national award for innovative initiatives that improved care quality and patient experience while lowering cost.

UCLA Transportation’s focus on alternative transportation and success in reducing traffic and emissions at UCLA won an award from the California Environmental Protection Agency

The UCLA professor, known as one of the fathers of the Internet, was honored for his “seminal contributions to the theory and practical development of the Internet.”

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired objects that represent the work of world-renowned painter and muralist Judith Baca, a professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

A team of UCLA researchers have been awarded 83 million core hours of computing time on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to study the origins and evolution of the Earth’s magnetic field.

The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award recognizes the hospital’s work implementing quality improvement measures.

Dr. A. Eugene Washington, vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, will receive the David E. Rogers Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges on Nov. 8 in Chicago.

Joshua Bloom, a UCLA Ph.D. candidate in sociology, received an American Book Award on Oct. 26 for a history of the Black Panthers. He shares the prize with co-author Waldo Martin, a UC Berkeley historian.

Dr. James Economou, a tumor immunologist and UCLA’s vice chancellor for research, received one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation lauded UCLA for its commitment to equitable, inclusive medical care for LGBT patients and their families.

SACNAS at UCLA is trying to bring more Latinos and Native Americans into science and engineering, a crucial step to help the U.S. keep pace with the rest of the technological world.

Utpal Banerjee, the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and chair of UCLA’s Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology in the UCLA College, will look at the important role of the fruit fly in helping scientists answer core questions about developmental biology.

The UCLA Grand Challenge project to make Los Angeles completely self-sufficient and sustainable in energy and water by 2050 has been awarded $100,000 after winning the popular vote in a competition sponsored by the Goldhirsh Foundation through its LA2050 Grants Challenge.

A thick dossier of letters from faculty colleagues, administrators, students and alumni attesting to his devotion to diversity has led to Richard Yarborough's selection as the campuswide winner of UCLA's top award for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Next month, Professor Stephen Hubbell will become the first American in 40 years to receive a Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations.

Teresa Roth, coordinator of the medicine residency program for the past 31 years in UCLA's Department of Medicine, is the winner of the 2014 Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Award.

Stanley Osher, UCLA professor of mathematics and director of applied mathematics, is the third person ever to receive the prestigious Gauss Prize, the highest honor in applied mathematics.

Terence Tao will be honored December 1 for his “many deep and varied contributions to mathematics.”

MyUCLA — the campus portal that enables students to register for classes, check their grades, track financial aid, plan their social calendars and more — is a Golden Award winner in the University of California’s 2014 Larry L. Sautter Awards.

Filipina American poet Irene Suico Soriano, program coordinator of the Friends of English in UCLA's Department of English, is a featured participant this summer in Voices of LA: The Krupnick Festival of the Arts. Her next reading is Aug. 17.

The award recognizes Facilities Management's efforts to embed sustainable practices throughout the campus.

Amjad Ezzour, a student affairs officer in the Fully Employed MBA Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Abraham Ackerman Staff Excellence Award.

Aydogan Ozcan and Tracy Johnson have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors in recognition of their breakthrough research and innovative approaches to undergraduate education.

The new prize, established by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner, recognizes scholars who have made major advances in the field of math.