UCLA Professor Emerita Judith L. Smith has been selected to receive the 2016 2017 Carole E. Goldberg Emeriti Service Award

UCLA Professor Emerita Judith L. Smith has been selected to receive the 2016 – 2017 Carole E. Goldberg Emeriti Service Award. The award will be presented at the UCLA Emeriti Association annual dinner.
Judith L. Smith, retired as Senior Dean and Convener of the College Cabinet of Deans (Letters and Science) in 2012. In 2014, she was asked and recalled to become Executive Director of the (still-“virtual”) UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the School’s Interim Dean. This was more than a full-time job, but she undertook it, did a superlative job in what might have otherwise seemed an impossible situation, tasked with fusing three departments into a cohesive school. Subsequent to her recall, Judi has now formally assumed the position of the founding Dean of this School lending her considerable dynamism, charisma and collegiality to the school and enhancing its visibility and presence on campus.
Please join me in wishing Dean Smith a well-deserved congratulations for outstanding service to UCLA since retirement and for serving as a powerful example of intellectual and professional achievement.

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World renown chef to speak at Science and Food lecture

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/world-renowned-chef-to-speak-at-science-and-food-lecture-may-2-at-ucla%22

Congratulations to Professors Stephanie White and Elaine Hsiao for winning a 2017 Life Sciences Excellence Award

Congratulations to to IBP Professors Stephanie White and Elaine Hsiao for winning a 2017 Life Sciences Excellence Award.

Stephanie White for her promotion of diversity and inclusion through innovative service, teaching, and mentorship.

Elaine Hsiao for her Outstanding Research Publication: Indigenous Bacteria from the Gut Microbiota Regulate Host Serotonin Biosynthesis (Yano et al., Cell 2015).

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Professors Xia Yang and Fernando Gomez-Pinilla featured in the UCLA Newsroom

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/head-injuries-can-alter-hundreds-of-genes-and-lead-to-serious-brain-diseases-ucla-biologists-report

Professor Gina Poe featured on the UCLA Newsroom

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/aau-grant-to-ucla-to-enhance-undergraduate-stem-education

Professor Xiao wins grant to work on ENCODE project

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/biology-professor-grace-xiao-wins-nih-encode-grant-for-genomics-research

Professor Barney Schlinger featured on the New York Times Webpage

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/science/manakin-challenge-sciencetake-video.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Professor Alan Garfinkel Awarded the Newton Abraham Visiting Professorship at Oxford for 2019-2020

The Newton Abraham Visiting Professorship in association with Lincoln College
The Newton Abraham Visiting Professorship is an exciting opportunity for a highly distinguished
researcher working in the medical, biological or chemical sciences or a related interdisciplinary
area to spend up to 12 months in Oxford. In addition to following a programme of collaborative
research, the Professor’s role involves stimulating interest in and research within her or his field,
and engagement with the wider research community at Oxford and beyond, including delivery of
the prestigious Newton Abraham Lecture. The Professor receives a salary of £65,967 per
annum (at current rates) plus personal travel expenses, and will be provided with family
accommodation, free of rent and local taxes. The Visiting Professor will be a Professorial Fellow
of Lincoln College, Oxford.

A Brief History of the Professorship

The noted biochemist Sir Edward Penley Abraham worked in
the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford, where, with Ernest Chain and Howard Florey, he investigated the therapeutic potential of penicillin and played an important role in purifying it and decoding its chemical structure. E.P. Abraham subsequently worked with Guy Newton in the
discovery of the antibiotic cephalosporin. The patent income from the antibiotic enabled the establishment of several charitable trusts for the support of biomedical research,including the E.P. Abraham Research Fund. The Newton Abraham Visiting Professorship was established in 1980, with a donation from the E.P. Abraham Research Fund.

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Popular Mechanics Magazine Honors Professor Xia Yang and Fernando Gomez-Pinilla with 2016 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award

Popular Mechanics magazine honors Professors Xia Yang and Fernando Gomez-Pinilla for their NIH-funded EBioMedicine research with a 2016 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, which recognizes “the research, innovators, and scientists who’ve made the world a little better this year”.

Link: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22691/2016-breakthrough-awards/%22

Professor Xia Yang featured in UCLA Newsroom

Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/plastic-manufacturing-chemical-bps-harms-egg-cells-study-suggests