Faculty Bulletin Board

Dr. J. Paul Finn, professor of radiological sciences at UCLA, was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Vickie Mays has been named a featured psychologist by the association.

Dr. Beth Karlan, director of cancer populations at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been inducted into the 2019 class of Giants of Cancer Care by OncLive.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco’s lecture examined the causes behind mass migration such as unchecked climate change, environmental degradation, war and terror.

Jason Cong received the 2019 achievement award from the association.

UCLA’s Yizhou Sun received the grant to continue her research on neural operators, online social networks and biomedical networks.

Dr. Christopher Saigal has been elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in recognition of his accomplishments in the field.

Mason Porter has been selected by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics to join its 2019 class of SIAM fellows.

Dr. Joann Elmore has been awarded a $375,000 Established Investigator Award from the Melanoma Research Alliance.

The Association of Art Museum Curators have honored Tom Joyce, Marla Berns and Allen Roberts with awards for excellence.

Yang Yang, UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, was named recipient of the 2019 recipient of its Sustainable Energy Award.

The recipients are Andrea Goldman, Ippolytos Kalofonos, and Joshua Dienstag.

Paul Weiss, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, received the 2019 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Three faculty were elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and one professor was elected to the Association of American Physicians.

Robert Gurval received the Eugen Weber Honors Collegium Faculty Award for teaching in the Honors Collegium at UCLA.

A team of UCLA-led researchers has received support from the National Institutes of Health to develop strategies for smoking cessation among high-risk, hospitalized patients.

UCLA’s Marissa López was named as a recipient of an American Council of Learned Society/Mellon Scholars & Society fellowship.

The award honors emeriti professors for scholarly work or educational service performed, since retirement, in the fields of humanities or social sciences.

Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, was elected for his seminal contributions to causal inference in statistics and contributions to artificial intelligence.

Heather Maynard, professor of organic chemistry, received the Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award for her contributions in interfacing synthetic and biological systems.

Sarah Tolbert received the 2019 Community Service and Praxis Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award.

Sam Emaminejad, whose research focuses on how wearable technologies could improve health, has received a CAREER award.

Sudipto Banerjee, professor of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2019 George W. Snedecor Award.

The funds will support a phase 1 clinical trial of a treatment for advanced sarcomas and other cancers.

Lynn Doering has been named the Audrienne H. Moseley Endowed Chair of Nursing at UCLA.