UCLA Undergraduate Research Week 2025: Five Life Sciences professors take home Faculty Mentor Awards

May 30, 2025

Undergraduate Research Week is a time to celebrate the hard work and dedication that goes into undergraduate research, including exceptional mentorship.

In recognition of their enthusiastic and consistent mentorship of undergraduate research this year, five Life Sciences professors received a 2025 Faculty Mentor Award.

  • Idan Blank (Psychology)
  • Alicia Izquierdo (Psychology)
  • Diana Rigueur (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
  • Jesse Rissman (Psychology)
  • Andrew Wikenheiser (Psychology)

Read more about this award, and see the full list of this year’s UCLA Faculty Mentor awardees here.

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