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(2023) Hydroclimatologist Park Williams, a professor in the department of geography, wins a MacArthur Fellowship, one of the many UCLA College Bruin recipients over the years, including internet studies and race scholar Safiya Noble (2021), historian Kelly Lytle-Hernández (2019), anthropologist Jason De León (2017), neurobiologist Elissa Hallem (2012), astrophysicist Andrea Ghez (2008), mathematician Terence Tao (2006), historian Saul Friedlander (1999), linguistic anthropologist Elinor Ochs, sociologist Rogers Brubaker (1994) anthropologist Sherry Ortner (1990), historian of religion Gregory Schopen (1985) and environmental historian and physiologist Jared Diamond (1985).