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Richard E. Horowitz, clinical professor of pathology at the Geffen School of Medicine, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine. Horowitz, who is senior consulting pathologist at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, has also received the Joint ASCP-CAP Award for Distinguished Service to American Pathology…. Computer Science Professor Judea Pearl has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue his project “Probabilistic Networks for Automated Reasoning.” ... The Southern California Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America
presented Andrew Saxon with the Physician of the Year award. Saxon is founder of the Division of Clinical Immunology-Allergy at the Geffen School of Medicine…. The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation has donated more than $750,000 to the School of Theater, Film and Television and to the Film & Television Archive to expand the media marketing curriculum in the school’s M.F.A. Producers Program and to create student fellowships. The foundation also has donated an archival collection of movie trailers produced by Kuehn’s Kaleidoscope Films. Kuehn was a movie-advertising pioneer whose creative mastery revolutionized the motion-picture trailer.