Jonathan “Mad” Tsai has over 3m. TikTok followers. Ryan Quan just profiled him for his monthly “artist of the month” column for JoySauce.  

Tom Hodgson, assistant professor in musicology, has received the high honor of being named a Hellman Fellow. In early 2020, the Hellman Fellows Fund provided an endowment to UCLA to establish the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows which provides support and encouragement for the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction

Matthew Blackmar just won the American Musicology Association’s Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship. The AMS made five awards from a pool of applicants across all of North America. Fellows receive a substantial 12 month stipend to support dissertation research and writing. Blackmar’s dissertation examines the fertile field of copyright and technological advances. The