Dawn Upchurch, associate professor in the School of Public Health, received the Jacobs Institute/Ortho-McNeil Pharma-ceutical Scholar in Women's Health Award to support her research. She will study a nationwide cross section of young women who self-report involuntary sexual intercourse?. Michael Phelps, director of the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging and chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, was honored with an "Energy@23" Award, given by the Department of Energy. Phelps was recognized for his work in developing the PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography), a technique that has been found to be effective in imaging breast cancer. The award was given to DOE laboratories responsible for the top 23 discoveries and innovations developed between 1977 and 2000?. Lee Cooper, marketing professor at The Anderson School, received this year's Marketing Science Institute/H. Paul Root Award for his article, "Strategic Marketing Planning for Radically New Products." The article appeared in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of Marketing.

The Harbor-UCLA Research and Educa-tion Institute has been awarded $241,000 to fund a lifesaving pediatric airway management education project. The goal is to train police, firefighters and paramedics in taking care of critically ill or injured children who require assistance with breathing. The grant was given by the UniHealth Foundation, a nonprofit philanthropic organization?. Political science major Dan Urman recently won a British Marshall Fellowship to study at Oxford University, one of only 40 such fellowships given each year. He will study international relations and American foreign policy, with a focus on the Middle East.

Anand Kumar, associate professor in residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, has been named associate editor of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry as well as treasurer of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry?. Professor Kenneth Philipson has been appointed chair of the Department of Physiology in the School of Medicine. His special area of interest is cardiovascular physiology?. Cynthia Ann Telles, associate clinical professor in the School of Medicine, has been elected to the board of directors of the California Endowment, the state's largest health foundation. Telles also has been the director of the Spanish-Speaking Psychosocial Clinic of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital for the past 20 years?. Michael Welch has been named executive director of the UCLA Fund. With 30 years of higher education experience in fund-raising, constituent relations and administration, Welch was most recently at Pepperdine University, where he served six years as assistant vice chancellor for Alumni Advancement and Relations. Prior to Pepperdine, Welch served as executive director of Duke University's $5.5-million, 2,300-member annual leadership giving program.