Faculty Bulletin Board

Jennifer Silvers received the 2019 Biennial Early Career Research Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.

Danijela Cabric, professor of electrical engineering in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, recently shared the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference.

Peter Narins has been selected as the 2019 Association for Research in Otolaryngology Award of Merit Winner.

Elezar Eskin has been named one of four 2019 International Society for Computational Biology Fellows.

Neil Garg was recognized for his exceptional personal and professional achievements and contributions to society.

Michael Jung, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College, received the LA BioStar Award.

Green, a prolific author whose research has focused on on Muslims in Asia, Africa and Europe, has been named UCLA’s first Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History.

The 2018–19 Unit 18 honorees were selected by the UCLA Academic Personnel Office.

The annual listing is published by the advocacy and support group Autism Speaks.

Dr. Fola May was selected as a 2019–2020 scholar by the association. The inaugural class of scholars includes 10 promising underrepresented minority physician-scientists.

Willy Hugo, assistant adjunct professor of dermatology at UCLA, has been awarded the Daneen & Charles Stiefel Investigative Scientist Award.

Kevin Daly received the Progressive Architecture Award for his design firm’s work on the Little Berkeley Affordable Housing Project.

Dr. Linda Rosenstock will receive the Welch-Rose Award for Distinguished Service to Academic Public Health from the Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health.

Dr. Roger Lo, professor of dermatology at UCLA and a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the V Foundation.

Thomas Wake, assistant adjunct professor of archaeology at UCLA, will continue research with students, researchers and colleagues of the institution in Panama.

The grants will go to interdisciplinary projects done in partnership with a community organization or system working to support children and families in Los Angeles.

Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA professor of French and Francophone studies, will deliver a keynote lecture at the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study program.

UCLA’s Wendy Teeter and Randall Akee have been appointed in recognition of their years of commitment to California native communities and policy issues.

Dr. Earl Freymiller, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery in the UCLA School of Dentistry, was recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club International.

Professors John Agnew, William Clark and Eric Sheppard were honored for their contributions to advancing geography.

Todd Millstein and Guy Van den Broeck received a four-year, $947,000 award to make machine learning more widely available and easier to work with.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam received the honor in recognition of his work on the encounters between Asians, Europeans and indigenous and colonial Americans.

As a fellow, Allison Carruth, associate professor of English at UCLA, will teach an upper-division multidisciplinary seminar course and deliver a public lecture.

Sharon Gerstel currently works in Mani, focusing on the restoration of village churches and the recording of the history of their communities.

Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, received the Reinhold Schünzel Award from Cinefest.