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April 17, 2008
Dr. Nancy Hopkins to give inaugural Judith Lengyel Lecture in Science Education on May 2, 2008
The title of Dr. Hopkins talk is “Women in Science: A Generation of Change (1971-2008).” The talk will be held on Friday, May 2 at 12 noon in 159 Boyer Hall. Click here for the event flyer
April 16, 2008
Terence Tao to receive National Science Foundation's highest honor
Terence Tao, the first mathematics professor in UCLA history to win the Fields Medal, will be awarded the National Science Foundation's prestigious 2008 Alan T. Waterman Award on May 6 at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Tao, who holds UCLA's James and Carol Collins Chair in the College...Click here for the complete article
April 8, 2008
Six Faculty Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
Six UCLA faculty members are recipients of the 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships, which are awarded on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment.
Susanna B Hecht, Professor School of Public Affairs
Chandrashekhar B Khare, Professor Department of Mathematics
Glen M MacDonald, Professor of Geography
Marc A Suchard, Assistant Professor of Biomathematics Biostatistics and Human Genetics
Roger D Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology
April 7, 2008
UCLA history professors Friedlander, Howe win Pulitzer prizes for nonfiction
Professor of history Saul Friedlander, above, today won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for the second volume of his seminal work, "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945." Friedlander, holder of UCLA's 1939 Club Chair in Holocaust Studies, is considered one of the world's...
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