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July 19, 2021
Idan Blank and Melissa Sharpe, assistant professors of psychology in the UCLA College, were selected as 2021-22 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows.
The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established by the Hellman Family Foundation to support and encourage the research of promising assistant professors who show the capacity for great distinction in their research.
Blank joined UCLA as an assistant professor of psychology in July 2019. He previously worked as a postdoctoral associate at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Blank specializes in cognitive psychology, and his current research centers on language comprehension and the brain.
Sharpe runs a behavioral neuroscience lab in the psychology department. Her studies investigate how different neuronal regions interact to form the basis of learning experiences and how these processes go wrong in psychopathology.
December 24, 2020
Professor at UC Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’.Photo:
Courtesy – UC Santa Barbara
Political Science Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja, was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book on Dalit representation in India, ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’, New India Foundation (NIF) announced on Dec. 10.
The jury of the award for this year announced two winners. Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state is the co-winner for his book, ‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon’.