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Applause

Professor John Duncan selected for Korean Foundation Award

Professor John Duncan, a historian in UCLA’s Department of East Asian Language and Cultures, will receive the 2009 Korea Foundation award for outstanding academic achievements in Korean studies at a Dec. 16 awards ceremony in Seoul...

Obama appoints Mayne to President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

President Obama announced Nov. 2 the appointment of Thom Mayne, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, founder of Metamor...

Professor wins prize in Israel

Lev Hakak, professor of Hebrew literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, was chosen to receive a Recognition Prize by Ahi (the Association for the Promotion of Research, Literature and Art), founded in Israel by Jews fro...

Vice chancellor elected trustee of College Board

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Janina Montero was elected Oct. 23 to a four-year term as a trustee of the College Board by member delegates voting at the association's annual meeting of members. Her term will continue until 2013. Founded in 19...
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Grants and Gifts

Center for the Study of Women faculty grants for 2009-10

Faculty members in the Center for the Study of Women have received grants for 2009-10.   Dawn M. Upchurch, professor of public health and community health sciences, has received the Faculty Research Completion Grant for her investigati...
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Transitions

Leaders recommend Yeazell as interim law school dean

Chancellor Gene Block and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh have proposed for UC regents' approval the appointment of Stephen C. Yeazell as interim dean of the School of Law, effective Nov. 23. Yeazell, the David G. Price and Dalla...
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In Memoriam

Burton R. Clark, professor emeritus of education, dies at age 88

Burton R. Clark, renowned educator, researcher, and professor emeritus of education in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS), died in Los Angeles on Oct. 28 at the age of 88 after a long illness. Widely acknowledg...
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