The Gold Shield Faculty Prize Course for Undergraduates

In 2000, the College of Letters and Science and Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA were pleased to announce that Gold Shield Faculty Prize recipients would periodically design and teach innovative lecture-discussion classes that will bring leading research ideas into the classroom available to all UCLA undergraduates. Half a dozen such courses have been offered through the Honors Collegium. The Prize, established by Gold Shield in 1986 in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of that organization, recognizes and rewards UCLA professors who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in undergraduate teaching and research or creative activity together with an acceptable level of public service within the university.

Recipients of the award to date are (in alphabetical order): Professors Jeffrey Alexander, Sociology; Utpal Banerjee, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Albert Braunmuller, English; Andrea Ghez, Physics and Astronomy; Patricia Greenfield, Psychology; Bob Goldberg, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Michael Jung, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Richard Kaner, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Peter Narins, Physiological Science; and J. William Schopf, Earth and Space Sciences.