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Three faculty members from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to engineers. Frank Chang, professor of electrical engineering; Yahya Rahmat-Samii, distinguished professor of electrical engineering; and William W-G Yeh, distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering, are among 65 U.S. members and nine foreign associates elected in 2008.

The Outfest Legacy Project, a historic collaboration between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, received a Legacy of Cinema Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The project is spearheading the rescue and restoration of lost gay and lesbian cinema; it hosted its first presentation of a Legacy Project restoration last summer with a new print of the seminal 1986 comedy/drama "Parting Glances."

Yi Tang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The fellowship of $625,000 will be paid over five years. In celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the Packard Fellows Program, the current and past fellows will be invited to attend a reunion conference to be held in Park City, Utah, in September.

Inwon C. Kim, professor of mathematics, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, professor of physics, have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships, which support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers. Fellows may use their two-year, $50,000 research grants to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are most of interest to them.