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Drs. Xia Yang and David Walker selected for the 2025 cohort of the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society

Coordinated by the UCLA Office of Faculty Development, the Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society recognizes UCLA faculty for excellence in mentoring. The Society, which is supported by a University of California Office of the President (UCOP) grant for faculty development, honors the time and effort that faculty mentors have contributed to the professional development of early and mid-career faculty at UCLA.

Professor Duncan Leitch is part of two of the six teams of researchers to win funding in the first year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems

Six cross-disciplinary teams of researchers from the United States and Canada have won funding in the first year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, a three-year initiative that aims to spark new science exploring neurobiological response to rapid and extensive human-caused environmental changes. Professor Leitch is amongst two teams, “Comparative TRPV1 Function in Sensory Adaptability and Resilience to Global Warming” and “Thermal Priming and Parental Care: Investigating Conserved Neural Pathways of Parental Care Plasticity in Response to Heat”