Faculty Bulletin Board

Vickie Mays has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Mental Health.

The Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology has received a $50,000 grant from Los Angeles-based PHASE ONE Foundation.

Warren Bicknell Mori, distinguished professor in the departments of physics and astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering, has been honored by American Physical Society.

Lixia Zhang, professor of computer science, has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Ohyun Kwon was awarded the 2020 Herbert Newby McCoy Award for her discovery of a new reaction, the hydrodealkenylation.

Gelare Khoshgozaran گلاره خوشگذران, of design and media arts, has been awarded a Graham Foundation grant for her research project “Inviolable Exteriors.”

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power awarded the contract to the UCLA Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center.

Zhongbo Kang, assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the UCLA College, has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

The center, funded by a $1.8 million NSF grant, will develop the fundamental chemistry needed to prepare synthetic plastics in a novel way.

Quanquan Gu, UCLA assistant professor of computer science, has been honored by Amazon Web Services.

Ninez Ponce and Michael Rodriguez will investigate risk factors for gun suicide and urban gun violence.

Katy Barkan is a lecturer in the architecture and urban design in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Hsian-Rong “HR” Tseng and Dr. Vatche Agopian of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded the grant from the National Cancer Institute.

Seth Putterman has been selected to receive a $50,000 award from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Felicia Schanche Hodge is a professor in the schools of nursing and public health. She has been named recipient of the Frank C. Dukepoo Award.

Mathieu Bauchy, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received five-year, $500,000 grant.

Lauren Lee McCarthy and collaborators will conduct research on the algorithmic structure of the digital world that surrounds us.

The institute is among the most prestigious positions for legal academics and professionals.

Christopher Cooper, Pamela Munro and Kendall Houk have been selected to receive the awards in honor of their research, scholarly work, teaching and service.

Dr. Shane White, a professor of endodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry, will serve as chair of UCLA’s division of the University of California Academic Senate.

Jorge Torres and Jennifer Casey have been named the recipients of the 2020 Hanson-Dow Award for outstanding teaching in the chemistry department.

Jennifer Silvers, assistant professor of developmental and social psychology in the UCLA College, has received the Boyd McCandless Award from the association.

The Specialized Program of Research Excellence, known as SPORE, has awarded $525,000 to 11 researchers.

The founder of the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science at UCLA has been honored with the Academic Senate’s award for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Jens Palsberg, a professor of computer science, has been elected to a leadership position with the Association for Computing Machinery.