With poet laureate fellowship, Raffi Joe Wartanian aims to help Altadena residents raise their voices
The UCLA Writing Programs lecturer was one of 23 from around the nation to be honored by the Academy of American Poets.
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Teaching Award winner frames writing as catalyst for change
Writing Programs lecturer Tamar Christensen encourages students to put words into action.
Katie Cunningham, linguistics and English major, selected to perform at 2025 commencement
A member of the HOOLIGAN Theatre Company, the 2025 graduate will sing the national anthem at one of the three UCLA College ceremonies.
2 from Humanities Division earn Undergraduate Research Week awards
Bella Brannon and Dhanya Charan were among recipients of the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity.
Classics professor Robert Gurval receives emeriti service award
Since his retirement in 2019, he has ‘brought the history of UCLA to life and introduced many to a fascinating and important story.’
Kristopher Kersey’s first book honored by Medieval Academy of America
The art history professor was recognized for “Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity.”
Zrinka Stahuljak’s book ‘Fixers’ honored as one of year’s best by History Today
The acknowledgment, she said, is gratifying because “historians are recognizing the work of a literary historian as historical work.”
2024 grad will have close-up view of Germany’s transition to new government
Elsa Coony said it would be “a particularly fascinating and dynamic time to be working close to the center of the government.”
Sixiang Wang honored for book that reframes 3 centuries of Korea-China relations
“Boundless Winds of Empire” earned the Hong Yung Lee Book Award from the UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies.
Ursula Heise honored by BBVA Foundation for global influence in environmental humanities
The director of UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies was lauded for having “explored the varied shapes that environmental thought, narrative and activism take in different regions of the world.”