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THREE CHEERS

Gail E. Wyatt, UCLA AIDS Institute associate director and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, has been honored as a 2004 Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women. The award recognizes women who have championed women’s issues to bring about social and economic change, and who have served as outstanding role models.... Thomas J. Coates, professor of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine and a UCLA AIDS Institute executive committee member, has received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy from the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes a psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to public policy research through a single achievement or a lifetime of work.... Anna Gawlinski, director of evidence-based practice at the School of Nursing, will receive the Excellence in Research Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She was recognized for her work in evaluating evidence-based guidelines in nursing and medical practice, and for her clinical research with advanced heart-failure patients.

ENCORE

The Chicano Studies Research Center has received a $124,000 grant from the Getty Grant Program to conduct a survey of materials related to Latino arts. The materials being surveyed will be related to Latino art groups and collectives, community-based arts organizations and individual artists, among others.... Andrea Ghez, physics and astronomy professor, was one of two recipients of the 2004 Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences for her pioneering, high-resolution infrared observations that provide evidence for the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy.... Beth Jamieson, assistant professor of hematology-oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute, has received a $90,000 grant from the American Foundation for AIDS Research to study the immune systems of HIV-infected persons who do not progress to AIDS within the expected time period.... Laszlo Kovacs, a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, has been named Kodak cinematographer-in-residence at the School of Theater, Film and Television. Kovacs, who made “New York, New York” with Martin Scorsese, will conduct student workshops that focus on the aesthetic role that cinematographers play in the collaborative process of filmmaking.

COMPLIMENTS

E. Barrie Kenney, professor of dentistry, was selected as the first holder of the Tarsson Family Endowed Chair in Periodontics. The endowed chair’s role is to provide visionary leadership and educational innovation in periodontics.... Thomas Klitzner, professor of pediatrics and chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Mattel Children’s Hospital, has been elected to serve on the L.A. Care Health Plan’s board of governors. The public agency serves 750,000-plus residents through the Medi-Cal, Healthy Families and Healthy Kids programs.