Faculty Bulletin Board

Ron Brookmeyer and his colleagues suggest a protocol that could be applied across infectious disease outbreaks and allow for the addition of new team members over time.

Tom Smith, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was honored with the Elliot Coues Award.

Javier Patiño Loira, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and David D. Kim, associate professor of Germanic languages, were named as recipients.

The grant is led by Dr. Vatche Agopian and Hsian-Rong “HR” Tseng.

Maite Zubiaurre has been awarded the 2020 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for her book “Talking Trash. Cultural Uses of Waste.”

Judith Carroll and Julienne Bower of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.

Assisted by UCLA Luskin colleagues, Chad Dunn secured a ruling that will allow more than 16 million registered voters in the state to vote by mail.

Robert Kaplan was honored with the award, which is jointly sponsored by the CDC Foundation and the James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation.

The grant funds the creation of a database of earthquake fault displacements and the development of a predictive model to estimate the displacements.

Google has awarded 2019-2020 Google Faculty Research Awards to four UCLA Samueli School of Engineering faculty.

Shelleen Greene has received the 2020-2021 Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Leeds, in England.

Scott Cummings has been awarded the 2020-21 Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a two-year grant for $1 million from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The paper comes from the UCLA Voting Rights Project, which is an advocacy project of the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Sriram Sankararaman, an assistant professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Adam Moore has received the 2019 Global Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography for “Empire’s Labor: The Global Army that Supports U.S Wars.”

Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, has received the grant from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

The five-year project will be led by UCLA professors Kyung Sung and Holden Wu.

Artem Chernikov has been selected for his project titled, “Model theory, groups and hypergraph combinatorics.”

Walter Allen is the Allan Murray Cartter professor of higher education in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Miguel García-Garibay, who is also professor of organic chemistry, studies the interaction of light and molecules in crystals.

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering annually recognizes alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam will deliver the F.E.L. Priestley Lectures and 2020 Annual Rubinstein Lecture.  

Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, is one of the leaders of the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence

Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar has been named the next editor-in-chief of JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.