grants and gifts

Darcie Denkert Notkin and Shelby Notkin's matching grant brought total gifts to $425,000.

Dan and Rae Emmett matching gift brings total to $1 million.

Participants in this month's 13th annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer helped raise $600,000 for a UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center program to assist low-income or uninsured women with or at risk for the disease.

The gift will provide up to $6,500 a year for research in the population sciences.

UCLA researchers have won a $1 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop lightweight, portable and cost-effective imaging devices that can quantify and characterize nano-size objects.

Teens who are hospitalized now have their own space to hang out with friends, listen to music, play games and watch movies, thanks to a generous donation from Northwestern Mutual and Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Hyundai Hope On Wheels and Los Angeles area Hyundai dealers awarded Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA a $250,000 Hyundai Scholar Grant for pediatric cancer research.

Soraya de Chadarevian, a professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, has been awarded an NSF grant to explore the history of genetics research.

The UC Office of the President has awarded a multi-campus research programs and initiatives grant of $1.07 million over four years to establish the Consortium for Black Studies in California.

UCLA faculty are invited to apply for a newly established $25,000 Faculty Climate Action Champion Award.

Amit Sahai, UCLA professor of computer science, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from DARPA to develop software that can't be hacked.

Janet Frank, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a $400,000 grant to study mental health services for seniors.

UCLA associate professor Benjamin Ellingson is the 2015 recipient of a research scholar grant of $790,000 from the American Cancer Society to further develop a new imaging technique for the early identification of brain cancer tumors.

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.

Hal Hershfield, assistant professor of marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and two collaborators have been selected to receive a $200,000 research grant from the Imagination Institute.

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of society and genetics as well as environmental health sciences, has received a 2015 Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Sally Frautschy, a professor of neurology at UCLA, has received a $300,000 grant to fund her work on brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.

Hal Hershfield from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management will receive a grant from the Imagination Institute, together with Diana Tamir of Princeton University, to fund their project on exploring the imagination.

Dr. Rajan Kulkarni, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and clinical instructor in the division of dermatology, has been granted a Young Investigator Award of $75,000 on behalf of the Melanoma Research Alliance.

The UCLA Department of Medicine will lead partners focused on reducing imaging for nonspecific low back pain, pre-operative testing and antibiotics for viral-based upper respiratory illness.

Five early-career researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior have been selected to receive 2015 Friends Scholars Awards of $100,000 over two years to support their research.

Four research projects will receive inaugural grants in a new UCLA School of Dentistry program to provide seed funding to launch pioneering basic and translational research.

More than $220,000 was raised for the Donald and Pat Shoup Endowed Fellowship in Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Dr. Sunil Sheth, a fellow in radiological sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded $154,000 to advance his research on a lab test to diagnose stroke from a single drop of blood.

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, has a new grant-funded project to tell the story of young black and Latino men who, despite troubling statistics surrounding their identities, are thriving academically.