grants and gifts

Four UCLA brain researchers have been selected for two of six awards recently announced by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to support work at the frontier of one of the most challenging roadblocks in neuroscience: growing mature human brain cells in the laboratory.

UCLA's Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital received a grant of $60,000 from the LA Women’s Circle of Giving.

If successful, the team’s voltage nanosensors would greatly enhance scientists’ ability to study the brain.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $200,000 grant to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center to help the center make accessible seven archival collections of newspapers, magazines, personal papers, photographs, correspondence and other materials.

Professor Thomas M. Phillip at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies has been awarded the Spencer Foundation’s Midcareer Fellowship.

Five community health projects led by UCLA's Dr. Bowen Chung, Dr. Maria Garcia, Dr. Gilberto Granados, Audra Langley and Dr. Jyoti Puvvula were selected to receive $20,000 each in funding.

Angel investors Scott and Cyan Banister have given $125,000 to support UCLA School of Law’s First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic.

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of environmental health sciences, has been awarded the 2015 International ToxScholar Grant from the Society of Toxicology.

Among the 18 collaborative proposals that were selected to receive UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives awards are four UCLA-led projects that will share in more than $23 million over four years, UC announced Monday.

UCLA researchers Shu-Wei Huang, Christopher Holbrook and Wen Li have been selected to receive 2015 Air Force Young Investigator awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Jillian Neuner raised $1,750 for UCLA research in honor of a friend battling Ewing's Sarcoma, one of the rarest forms of pediatric cancer.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

UCLA’s BRITE Center for Science, Research and Policy has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to address the delivery of mental health services under the Affordable Care Act.

Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute have received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

In response to the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill disaster, UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Science professors, Jeroen Molemaker and James McWillams, have been awarded $2 million by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.

The UCLA Anderson School of Management has received a $1.5 million gift to establish the Donnalisa and William M. Barnum, Jr. Endowed Term Chair in Management.

Professor of medicine Betty Tsao, on faculty in the division of rheumatology and arthritis at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and a member of the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center, received a research grant from the Lupus Foundation of America.

SELFA Inc., a health care technology company cofounded and based on research by Chi On Chui, UCLA associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, won a $1.65 million grant from the NIH.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center was awarded a $154,960 grant from the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service. The grant was awarded as a part of the department’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program, ...

A team of UCLA researchers has received a $2-million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to explore nanoscale 2DL materials that have breakthrough potential in electronics, optoelectronics, bioelectronics and energy conversion and storage.

Stacy J. Park, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a two-year, $80,000 grant by the Prevent Cancer Foundation to study the role e-cigarettes might play in the development of lung cancer.

UCLA, USC, Caltech are collaborating in creating a National Science Foundation-funded center to translate scientific and engineering research into technology for the marketplace.

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an ultra-compact X-ray free electron laser.

UCLA geographer Yongkang Xue is heading a team of researchers who have received a four-year, $2.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to look at forces driving climate change in East Asia over the next 30 years.

Dr. Sophie Deng, a corneal specialist and associate professor of ophthalmology at UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, been awarded a $700,000 grant by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.