Faculty Bulletin Board

Alain Mabanckou, literature professor was chosen by “New African” as one of its of 2019’s 100 most influential Africans.

Chon Noriega has won the 2019 Distinguished Editor award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Alex Hall, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the UCLA College, has been awarded the 2019 Turco Lectureship.

UCLA’s Ravi Netravali was awarded best paper by the Association for Computing Machinery at the association’s 2019 symposium on cloud computing.

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Songwu Lu and Carlo Zaniolo have been elected as fellows of the world’s largest educational and scientific society for computing.

Kara Cooney was awarded the Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research.

UCLA historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century” was selected for the magazine’s list.

Glen MacDonald, distinguished professor of geography, has been chosen for the American Association of Geographers' 2020 Class of Fellows.

Stephanie Pincetl of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability received the honor from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Yongjie Hu, UCLA assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a recipient of the 2019 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award.

Peter Petersen and Romyar Sharifi have been elected to the American Mathematical Society's Fellows program.

Yahya Rahmat-Samii, distinguished professor in electrical engineering/electromagnetics, receives highest distinction in China in the field of engineering.

Brenda Stevenson, the Nickoll Family Professor of History at UCLA, has been selected to receive the 2020 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal.

Susan Slyomovics received a research fellowship to the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Aix-Marseilles in France.

Katherine Marino, UCLA assistant professor of history, was selected for group’s the distinguished lectureship program.

“At CRESST, we believe assessment design is a critical linchpin to understanding and improving the quality of education for every student,” said Li Cai.

Four professors in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been elected as part of the organization’s 2019 class of 168 fellows.

Tao, the James and Carol Collins Chair in the UCLA College, was honored by Italy’s Riemann International School of Mathematics.

Willy Hugo, of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received $75,000 to study how deep learning can improve treatment.

Paul Weiss has been awarded the Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division 2019 Recognition Award from the American Vacuum Society.

Mary Rezk-Hanna, an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, received the American Heart Association Research Article of the Year Award.

Willeke Wendrich, professor of near eastern languages and cultures, was elected president of the International Association of Egyptologists.

Jessica Rett, associate professor of linguistics, has been honored for her work in the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program.”

Dr. Jeremie Calais, a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded $105,000 from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

Dr. James McGough has received the Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.