Faculty Bulletin Board

UCLA’s Susan Bookheimer, the Joaquin M. Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, received the honor.

“Playing the Flute in Shanghai: the Musical Life of Dai Shuhong” was honored with the Biographical Documentary Award at a film festival in China.

Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, will conduct a five-year study assessing the pain-relieving effects of cannabis and cannabinoids.

Carter is a recipient of the 2019 John Scott Award for her research that has made her a leading voice on climate change.

Chandra Ford and Gilbert Gee were chosen as co-recipients of the 2019 Paul Cornely Award for their work on the impact of racism on health.

Laura Abrams is a professor of social welfare in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

The center will share $3.5 million with other institutions to examine topics including: content moderation by social media companies and antitrust enforcement in big tech.

Jason Cong has won the association’s 2019 University Research Award.

Cho-Jui Hsieh and Kai-Wei Chang have been awarded the 2019 Facebook Research Award on computationally efficient natural language processing.

Miryun Kim served as a program co-chair for the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution 2019.

Héctor Calderón received the Best Academic Themed Book Award for his work on “The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 1974­-2016.”

Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng’s award is from program designed to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers who will work on defense and national security.

Nina Hyams, distinguished professor of linguistics at UCLA, has been chosen as a member of the society’s 2020 class of fellows.

UCLA’s Dr. Amar Kishan and Dr. Jeremy Shelton have received PCF Young Investigator Awards.

Sarah T. Roberts has been awarded part of a $1.5 million Future of Work Grant by the National Science Foundation.

The center has been named the winner of the Editor/Publisher Award for the 40th annual American Book Awards by the Before Columbus Foundation.

UCLA’s Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services has received three one-year grants.

Katherine In-Young Lee’sbook received the Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Beth Klein has been named recipient of the M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship, which enables women to return to physics research careers after career interruption.

The system has won second place in the Eureka Prize competition. The $100,000 prize goes to the team headed by Dr. David Reuben.

Dr. Susana Vacas, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, received the five-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Jose Rodriguez is among 22 outstanding young scientists in the United States to be awarded a fellowship by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

The $225,000 grant will fund a yearlong seminar series examining how cities serve as spaces of refuge.

Elizabeth Ligan Bjork and Robert Bjork, professors of psychology, have received the 2020 Association for Psychological Science Mentor Award.

UCLA’s Jorge Torres has been named the 2019 recipient of the Prize for Excellence in Inclusivity by the American Society for Cell Biology.