awards and honors

UCLA’s three most recent alumni Nobel winners — Fred Ramsdell, Ardem Patapoutian and Randy Schekman — said their experience as Bruins loomed particularly large in their scientific development.

The award offers a five-year, $5.5 million grant to help fund Kao’s research into noninvasive assistive devices for the paralyzed.

Multiple subspecialties ranked in the U.S. News & World Report assessment.

With graduates Gala Porras-Kim and Garrett Bradley being honored, Bruins have accounted for 1 in 10 'genius grant' recipients over the past 3 years.

Fast fashion degrades land and people. In Indonesia, Riadini-Flesch is proving it can also heal soil, cut carbon and empower women.

Jason De León was thunderstruck when he won the National Book Award — the second time in two years a UCLA professor has walked away with the honor.

UCLA's Louis Ignarro, one of the winners of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, was highlighted by the Washington Post.

The UC Berkeley professor, known as the inventor of reticular chemistry, was at UCLA from 2006 to 2011.

Ramsdell, who earned his doctorate in microbiology and immunology at UCLA in 1987, was one of three researchers honored for their work on the human immune system.

The program provides opportunities to collaborate with the National Academy of Medicine and its members over a three-year period.

The award recognizes outstanding principal investigators within the first decade of their careers following board certification.

The American Heart Association will present the award during its Scientific Sessions 2025 in November.

The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research and service

Physician-scientists from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center are being recognized for their contributions to advancing breast cancer research and care.

Kreiner is being recognized for her contributions to history at the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages.

The prize is the highest honor from the International Association of Pancreatology.

UCLA captured U.S. News & World Report's No. 1 ranking for hospital-based care in L.A. and California and made the publication’s Honor Roll for the 36th straight year.

The annual global competition recognized UCLA Strategic Communications, the Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health, and the UCLA College.

Over the past two years, the UCLA Strategic Communications publication has collected a string of professional accolades.

Biswas was honored for her work leading UCLA Library’s Ethical Description Project Team, which supports inclusive access to UCLA collections.

The winning proposals will support Black male trauma recovery, foster youth resilience, autism-friendly emergency departments and accessible playgrounds.

The prize is awarded to an early-career researcher “whose work reflects the highest caliber of excellence, diligence and creative thinking.”

She was honored with the 2025 Douglas K. Richardson Award for Perinatal and Pediatric Healthcare Research.

The annual awards, presented on Ellis Island in New York, celebrate immigrants and their progeny who are dedicating their lives to the betterment of society.

Boum’s research has centered on the complexities of religious and ethnic minorities in North Africa.