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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kacie Deters for being the recipient of the 2023 Turken Research Award!

Sam and Ida Turken Charitable Foundation

The directors of the Sam and Ida Turken Charitable Foundation along with its president, Beth Devermont the daughter of Phyllis Turken Shamberg who began donating funds to Alzheimer’s research on behalf of the Sam and Ida Turken Charitable Foundation in the 1990’s, continue her mother’s legacy by providing an annual gift to support early career researchers at UCLA who are committed to studying Alzheimer’s disease.

Congratulations to Professor Barney Schlinger for the recent publication of his new book, “The Wingsnappers: Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird“. 

Distinguished Professor Peter Narins (IBP) along with Blaire van Valkenburgh and Brad Shaffer (EEB), were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  The ceremony took place at the Kresge Auditorium at MIT, in Cambridge, MA.  The AAA&S was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, and other prominent “scholar-patriots” who contributed to the establishment of the new nation, its government, and its Constitution.  Some of the members are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Nelson Mandela, Mary Leakey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and this year’s inductees Glenn Close, Laurence Fishburne, Claudine Gay, and Walter Allen.