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Margaret Leal-Sotelo, assistant director of the Center for Community Partnerships, was one of five new members recently appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. Leal-Sotelo’s nomination was unanimously approved on Nov. 22 before she was sworn in by the city clerk…. Electrical Engineering Professor Bahram Jalali and Ozdal Boyraz, a former postdoctoral researcher at UCLA, were selected by Scientific American magazine as research leaders in its 2005 Scientific American 50, an annual list recognizing outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology over the past year. Jalali and Boyraz were honored for their pioneering work in silicon lasers.... Robert Goldberg , chief of orbital and ophthalmic plastic surgery and co-director of the Aesthetic Reconstructive Surgery Service at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, received the Irwin M. Weinstein Excellence in Medicine Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund for his contributions to the field.… Raymond Knapp, professor of musicology, has been awarded the 2004-05 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award carries a $10,000 prize administered by the Cornell University Department of English and is one of the most generous and distinguished in American theater. He was also honored for his book, “The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity” (Princeton University Press, 2005)…. Susan McClary, professor of musicology, was presented with the Kinkeldey Award on Oct. 29 by the American Musicological Society at its annual business meeting in Washington, D.C.... UCLA Medical Center received two national Get With the Guidelines awards from the American Heart Association — a Heart Failure Initial Achievement Award and a Coronary Artery Disease Sustained Performance Achievement Award. The medical center was honored for its exceptional cardiovascular care of patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease and heart failure…. The Southern California Particle Center has received an $8-million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for new studies of airborne particulate matter in the Los Angeles Basin. The five-year grant will support investigations, for example, into how exposure to airborne particulates affects health.