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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.

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”

Co-Authored publication in Nature by Dr. David Walker is recently featured in the UCLA Newsroom, “Scientists can reverse brain aging in fruit flies by preventing buildup of a common protein”.