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NAMES AND FACES

ACCOLADES

Robert Englund, professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures, is the recipient of the 2004 Richard W. Lyman Award, presented by the National Humanities Center to recognize the innovative use of information technology in humanistic scholarship and teaching. As principal investigator of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, Englund leads an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science whose mission is to make available through the Internet cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, circa 3350 B.C., to more than three millennia later.... Medicine and Physiology Professor George Sachs is one of five scientists who will be presented with the 2004 International Awards by the Toronto-based Gairdner Foundation. The award recognizes top researchers whose work has illuminated understanding of cellular function, reduced disease and enhanced quality of life. Winners will receive their awards and a $30,000 honorarium at a gala dinner in October.

OVATIONS

In the category of best book by one to two authors, “A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal,” written by Allen F. Roberts, professor of world arts and cultures and chair of the African Studies Program, and his wife, Mary Nooter Roberts, deputy director and chief curator of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, won the Arnold Rubin Book Award at the Arts Council of the African Studies Association Triennial Symposium. The award is the highest honor conferred by peers in the field of African and African Diaspora art studies.... UCLA Events Office director Jack Raab and scheduling manager Betsy Metzgar received the Association of Collegiate Conference and Events Directors-International’s Outstanding Session of the Year Award for their session, “Creating a Campus Calendar of Events That Does It All.” It was presented at the association’s annual conference in Vancouver.

ENCORE

Professor Shane Que Hee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health in the School of Public Health received a $284,866 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to purchase an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer. The new instrument will allow scientists to identify and quantify many elements at very low concentrations from the same sample simultaneously, saving time.... This year, three UCLA faculty members received Sloan Research Fellowships: Ming Guo, assistant professor of neurology; Brad Hansen, assistant professor of physics and astronomy; and Rowan Killip, assistant professor of mathematics. These awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science, including chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics.