The Institute’s Impact
The Institute’s Impact
Awards & Recognitions
2025 – 2026
● Danielle Carr, Recipient of the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
● Vincent Duc Cao, Shreya Kalyanaraman, Saanvi Rai and Alexandra Maria Tabacu Recipients of the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering Awards
● Valerie Tornini, Research Award Recipient of the 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Awards
● Danielle Carr, Educational Innovation Recipient of the 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Awards
● Faculty Mentor Award Winners; Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Bharat Venkat and Valerie Tornini
● Terence Keel, The Coroner’s Silence Book Released
2024 – 2025
● Michelle Rensel, Awarded the Tier 3 Catalyst Grant by the UCLA Teaching & Learning Center
● Anne Gabrielle Go Awarded the 2025 Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity
● Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Professor Jessica W. Lynch
Statistics & Milestones
2021 – 2022
● 74% of the students that applied to our Class of 2022 HBS major were admitted
● In total, ISG faculty are collaborating with 23 different academic institutions nationally and 12 internationally
2020 – 2021
● The HBS major is the 8th most popular major in a poll recently taken of incoming UCLA students for the 2020-2021 academic year
2019 – 2020
● In 2019, ISG faculty gave 15 talks in 9 countries, across 4 continents