Faculty Bulletin Board

Jia-Ming Liu, associate dean for academic personnel at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a 2020 Yushan Scholar by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.

Rong Fu, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and Gregory Okin, professor of geography, have been selected as 2020 American Geophysical Union fellows.

Todd Millstein, professor of computer science, recently won distinguished paper awards at three Association for Computing Machinery conferences.

Luke Yarbrough, associate professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, is a runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.

Cho-Jui Hseih, assistant professor of computer science, has received the Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award.

The professor has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for 2021.

Laura Gómez’s “Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism” was one of the 137 nonfiction titles on the list.

Samanvaya Srivastava, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation award.

Kristen Choi and Yuzhang Li have been selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list for healthcare and science, respectively.

The professor is one of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration and mass incarceration.

Samueli, chairman of Broadcom Inc. and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCLA, has received the institute’s Founders Medal.

Mona Jarrahi was one of the five winners of the Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation Grant from the West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics.

Morgan Tingley, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and visiting graduate researcher Austin Spence were awarded the Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution.

Eric Scerri, a professor of chemistry, historian and philosopher of science at UCLA, has been ranked as the second most influential academic in the field of chemistry.

Rodney McMillian, artist and professor of sculpture, is exhibiting a new show entitled “Body Politic” at Vielmetter Los Angeles.

Ellen Sletten, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society Young Chemical Biologist Award.

John Thornton Caldwell, a distinguished professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, was honored by the 2020 DOC LA — Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival.

Weizhe Hong, an associate professor of biological chemistry and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will receive this year’s Young Investigator Award.

Gil, a design media arts lecturer in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, has won the Lumen Gold Award for her work “Nuestra Victoria/Our Victory.”

The work of Giorgio Buccellati, founding director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati was highlighted in recent publication written by 51 scholars. 

Barbara Kruger, distinguished professor of art in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, joined 40-plus other artists to redesign the iconic stickers.

Dr. Sherin Devaskar was recognized for her contributions to advancing child health and the profession of pediatrics.

Chandra Ford, a professor of community health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was recognized by the Association of Black Women Physicians.

Joseph Loo, a professor of biochemistry and faculty director of the UCLA Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Technology Center, was recognized by Analytical Scientist.

Chong Liu, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.