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UCLA COLLEGE of LETTERS and SCIENCE Summer 2012 | Volume Summer 2012 | Volume Eighteen UCLA COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE From the Deans of the College of Letters and Science 6 10 Dear Friends, This June marks the College of Letters and Science’s 88th Commencement ceremony, as always a celebration of our 14 28 extraordinary graduates and the equally impressive faculty who guide and mentor them. It’s a time when we look ahead to the opportunities before us. It seems an appropriate moment, therefore, to introduce an entirely new look for the College Report. We have redesigned it to reflect the optimism and forward outlook that distinguishes the College and UCLA as a whole. By 18 using brighter colors and a more open design, we enhance the feature stories from each of the five divisions as well as College news and development. UCLA College of The College’s spirit is evident in the new Luskin Thought Leadership lecture series, made possible by the vision and Letters and Science generosity of Meyer Luskin and whose inaugural speaker was President Bill Clinton. It is visible in the remarkable breadth DEPARTMENTS FEATURES and diversity of accomplishment of our Commencement speakers and alumni, whose degrees span the College’s five divisions. And it is demonstrated by the groundbreaking research and world-class scholarship that the College 2 College News: Sloan, 4 The Science of Food: Recipe for a Alessandro Duranti produces every day. Dean of Social Sciences Charles Dickens and Social Delicious Course Media, AAAS, Startup UCLA Joseph Rudnick As we look forward to commemorating UCLA’s Centennial celebration, the College Report remains dedicated to 6 Bloodwork: Utpal Banerjee Wins Dean of Physical Sciences chronicling the ongoing impact of our students, faculty and those who support the College so generously, and their NIH Pioneer Award Judith L. Smith commitment to leading lives of scholarship and service. 26 Great Futures: The Luskin Dean and Vice Provost for Lecture 8 On Its Face: Primate Study Undergraduate Education Breaks New Ground Victoria Sork 28 Great Futures: The 2012 Sincerely, Dean of Life Sciences Commencement Speakers 10 Royal Pair: New Honors for Ghez David Schaberg and Tao David Schaberg Interim Dean of Humanities Interim Dean of Humanities 12 Alcohol and Aging: Intriguing College Development [email protected] Megan Kissinger New Findings Assistant Vice Chancellor, College Development Judith L. Smith 14 A Beautiful Mind: Teofilo Ruiz Dean and Vice Provost for College Report Christine Miller Undergraduate Education 16 Africa Speaks, America Answers Creative Director [email protected] Jack Feuer 18 Perséphone: Inside Stravinsky’s Editor Joseph Rudnick Star-Crossed Opera Dean of Physical Sciences Jose Angel Montoya Art Direction and Design [email protected] 20 Back to School: Mellon New Directions Fellowships Development Writer Alessandro Duranti On the cover Margaret MacDonald Dean of Social Sciences 22 American Sign Language Media Relations A soaring shot of [email protected] Comes to UCLA Meg Sullivan Franz Hall reaching Stuart Wolpert for the sky on a Victoria Sork beautiful day during 24 Increasing the Diversity Pipeline: Dean of Life Sciences spring break, shot Mellon McNair and Mays [email protected] by UCLA Senior Please address comments to Designer Bryan [email protected] Mandelbaum Regents UC 2012 Unless otherwise indicated, all original photos by Reed Hutchinson. COLLEGE NEWS AN UPDATE OF EVENTS AND PROGRESS IN THE UCLA COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE College faculty named AAAS fellows THREE UCLA COLLEGE SCHOLARS Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, J. David Neelin, professor and chair HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS FELLOWS a national research institute funded by the of UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric BY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION National Science Foundation that fosters in- and Oceanic Sciences, was honored for UCLA ranks second in nation in number @Charles Dickens: FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE terdisciplinary collaborations among math- “distinguished contributions to the fields of of 2012 Alfred P. Sloan fellows The Social Media (AAAS), THE WORLD’S LARGEST ematical scientists and physical scientists, theoretical climate dynamics and climate GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY AND engineers, biologists, medical researchers, modeling, particularly for insights into the and researchers in the humanities and social dynamical mechanisms underlying the SIX OUTSTANDING YOUNG PROFESSORS FROM UCLA ARE AMONG 126 World of a Victorian THE PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL SCIENCE. sciences. behavior of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS FROM 51 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN Icon Robert Modlin, professor of microbiology, phenomenon.” Neelin conducts research THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA TO RECEIVE 2012 SLOAN RESEARCH immunology and molecular genetics, and involving interactions among different FELLOWSHIPS FROM THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION. Members are chosen for their distinguished HE LOOKED AT THE TECHNOLOGICAL efforts to advance science or its applica- the Klein Professor of Dermatology and pieces of the climate system, starting chief of the Division of Dermatology. He was with ocean-atmosphere interaction and UCLA and Yale University each had six faculty members selected, second only to Stanford REVOLUTION UNFOLDING AROUND tions. The selection of fellows has been an honored for “distinguished contributions spreading to other interactions. University, which had seven. The fellowships are awarded to exceptional young researchers HIM, RECOGNIZED THE POSSIBILITY AAAS tradition since 1874. The new fellows, toward understanding human antimicrobial AAAS, founded in 1848, is a nonprofit “whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of FOR NEW KINDS OF SOCIAL honored in February at the AAAS annual pathways, including Th1/Th2 cytokines, TLR organization that includes 261 affiliated scientific leaders,” according to the New York-based foundation. Five of UCLA’s recipients NETWORKS—AND CHANGED meeting in Vancouver, are: 2 recognition of microbial lipoproteins and societies and science academies, and serves are in the College: POPULAR CULTURE FOREVER. Mark L. Green, professor of mathemat- the role of vitamin D in immunity.” His labo- 10 million people. The association’s mission Leah Platt Boustan is an assistant professor of economics whose research interests are at ics, who has worked in several branches of Facebook? Twitter? Think further back. Way ratory has made fundamental insights into is to “advance science and serve society” the intersection of economic history, modern labor and urban economics. Her research mathematics, including several complex back. T-cell subsets, cytokine patterns, antigen through initiatives in science policy, inter- focuses on the “Great Black Migration” from the rural South during and after World War variables, commutative algebra, Hodge In a new book from Oxford Univer- presentation, innate immunity and antimi- national programs and science education, II and the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th theory and algebraic geometry. He was sity Press, Jonathan Grossman, a UCLA crobial mechanisms in the human immune including its website devoted to science centuries. She is a research associate with the California Center for Population Research co-founder and longtime director of UCLA’s authority on the life and work of Charles response to infection. news, EurekAlert! at www.eurekalert.org. and a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is writing Dickens, ascribes a book titled Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and key characteristics Labor Markets. of Dickens’s work Neil Garg is an assistant professor of chemistry whose remarkable total synthesis of a to the 19th-century natural product created a stir last August at the American Chemical Society’s national Good Beginnings: Budding Digital author’s appreciation meeting. Garg’s laboratory develops synthetic strategies and methods to enable the of the implications of synthesis of complex bioactive molecules. He also employs innovative techniques in his Entrepreneurs Flock to Startup UCLA Victorian innovations teaching, including assigning his undergraduates an extra credit project in which they in high-speed, global produce music videos about organic chemistry. He joined UCLA in 2007, and has won you could either get a job or go to graduate passenger trans- MORE THAN 500 STUDENTS AND numerous awards and honors for his research. school. Increasingly, our graduates are port, including new ENTREPRENEURS PACKED UCLA’S John Novembre, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and of interested in a third path: to start their perceptions of time, SCHOENBERG HALL IN MARCH TO bioinformatics, is a population geneticist. The central area of interest of his laboratory is own ventures and get their ideas out in space and commu- HEAR A TALK BY STARTUP GURU the development of theory and statistical methods for analyzing genomic-scale population the world,” said Jim Stigler, professor of nity. ERIC RIES AT AN EVENT HOSTED BY genetic data. Much of his National Science Foundation-funded research investigates psychology and associate dean for Research “More than a STARTUP UCLA, A NEW CAMPUS- questions in evolutionary genetics, focusing on human evolutionary history and using data & Innovation in the Social Sciences. century before the advent of eHarmony and WIDE INITIATIVE, AND LEANLA, from emerging genotyping
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