Awards

Eliminating potential false positives in the search for dark matter

UCLA Assistant Professor of Physics Alvine Kamaha wins DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program award for her proposal to eliminate potential false positives in dark matter detectors.

UCLA Undergraduate Student Team Wins NASA TechLeap Prize

Students in the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department are finalists in the NASA Techleap competition to build a universal interface to support payload integration onto various commercial suborbital vehicles, orbital platforms, and planetary landers

Fulbright Awardee Connects with Her Roots Working With the Vietnamese Deaf community

Computational & Systems Biology undergraduate researcher Elise Ỷ-lan Tran has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to visit Vietnam to conduct research aimed at assisting the Deaf community.

Zvi Bern Elected to National Academy of Sciences

The UCLA professor joins 120 other new members in 2024.

Creating a new model for heat wave trends

Assistant Professor of Statistics and the Environment Karen McKinnon earned the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award for her work studying the trends in the intensity of extreme heat events.

Professor David Saltzberg Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award

Saltzberg was honored for his work on detection of high energy neutrinos using radio waves.

Professor Alvine Kamaha Wins the Prestigious Edward A. Bouchet Award

Kamaha was honored for her research work improving the sensitivity of dark matter detectors and her dedication to minority education in science.

UCLA receives $1 million NSF grant to develop quantum sensors

Researchers aim to measure and understand atmospheric and aerosol chemistries that standard atmospheric sensors cannot detect

David Leibrandt Wins Moore Foundation Award to Push the Boundaries of Particle Physics

The work supports UCLA’s ongoing leadership in Quantum Science and Technology