2017 TEDXUCLA & Eudaimonia Awards
Awardee
Meb Keflezighi
Meb Keflezighi is the 2017 inaugural recipient of the UCLA Eudaimonia award and inaugural Eudaimonia Society member. The year after the Boston Marathon bombing, Meb Keflezighi stunned the world by entering the competition and becoming the oldest man (at age 40) to win the event. Keflezighi is an Eritrean refugee, four-time US Olympian, winner of the 2009 New York City Marathon, and a four-time NCAA Champion with the UCLA Track & Field team.
As a land grant institution, the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands).