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Alison Bailey, associate professor of education, has received a 2005-’06 fellowship from the Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS). The institute, founded by philanthropists Jeffrey and Joyce Sudikoff, creates a public forum for the research and scholarship of GSE&IS faculty by disseminating its fellows’ work through the popular press. Fellows deliver interviews and write opinions and articles that expand public awareness of critical issues related to education and information studies.... Ronni Sanlo’s latest book, “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: Research, Policy, and Personal Perspectives: New Directions for Student Services” (Jossey-Bass), is dedicated to the memory of UCLA student Amanda Hafleigh, who died last November. Sanlo, director of the UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center, also received the 2005 Professional Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and the 2005 Community Advocate Award from the Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapists of Southern California.... Solomon Hamburg, clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and Calvin Hobel , professor in residence at the UCLA Medical Center, were recently appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to two committees of the state’s Science Advisory Board in the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment: the Carcinogen Identification Committee and the Development and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee, respectively.... Chemical Engineering Professor Jane Chang has been named the recipient of the 2005 American Vacuum Society (AVS) Peter Mark Award, which recognizes outstanding theoretical or experimental work by a young scientist or engineer. Honored for her pioneering work in the synthesis, processing and characterization of novel materials for applications in microelectronics and optoelectronics, Chang received an honorary lectureship at the 2005 AVS meeting in Boston.... Lonnie Zeltzer, professor of pediatrics, anesthesiology, and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Geffen School of Medicine and director of the Pediatric Pain Program at the Mattel Children’s Hospital, has been selected president-elect of the Pediatric Special Interest Group for the International Association for the Study of Pain.... Gov. Schwarzenegger has appointed Fernando Torres-Gil, associate dean of academic affairs in the School of Public Affairs and director of the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging, as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Torres-Gil is among 12 Californians selected by the governor to attend the national conference Dec. 11-14 in Washington, D.C. At the conference, the fifth White House Conference on Aging, delegates will vote on resolutions and develop strategies to assist the president and Congress in shaping aging-related policies for the decade ahead, according to conference organizers. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Booming Dynamics of Aging: From Awareness to Action.”