Faculty Bulletin Board

Robert Prins has been awarded $750,000 to support his research in developing immunotherapies for deadly brain tumors. The grant ...

Andrea Moudarres, assistant professor of Italian, received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies.

Guillaume Chanfreau received the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Dr. Michael Ong will serve another two-year term on the committee, which advises California on how to administer tobacco tax revenues.

Chee Wei Wong was recognized for his achievements in ultrafast optics, nonlinear photonics, quantum optics and precision measurements.

Judea Pearl is being recognized for his work providing principled and effective methods for probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems.

Adriana Galván will receive one of two 2019 Troland Research Awards from the National Academy of Sciences.

The center was recognized by the College Art Association for its scholarship, public programs, community partnerships and policy-related research.

Patricia Greenfield, distinguished professor of psychology, has received the 2019 Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Psychology Award.

Oscar Stafsudd was honored for having brought distinction to the engineering profession and school over the course of his career.

Catherine Crespi is an expert in statistical methods for the design and analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Robin D.G. Kelley, distinguished professor and Gary B. Nash endowed chair in U.S. history and black studies, has received the Nicolás Guillén lifetime achievement award.

Yousef Bozorgnia won the 2019 Bruce Bolt Medal for his contributions to earthquake ground motion models, seismic hazard analysis and structural earthquake engineering.

Edward Keenan was recognized by Marquis Who’s Who for demonstrating leadership, excellence and longevity within his profession.

Susanna Hecht, professor in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, was awarded the David Livingstone Centenary Medal.

Carrie Hyde, associate professor of English at UCLA, was awarded the 2018 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools.

Barbara Fuchs is also the guiding force behind UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics program, which has become an important resource for Spanish-language Golden Age Theater.

UCLA placed third among institutions in these rankings.

Helga Leitner, professor of geography at UCLA, received the 2019 Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the American Association of Geographers for her research and contributions to the field.

Ciprian Manolescu was recognized by the American Mathematical Society for his paper that was published in one of the society’s primary research journals.

Margaret Kivelson is receiving the award “for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in understanding planetary magnetospheres.”

Charlene Villaseñor Black will use the funds to study the 21 missions and create a new field of studies that will incorporate Native American and Chicano perspectives.

Dr. Kelsey Martin’s role on the state committee reflects UCLA Health’s broader commitment to the emerging field.

UCLA’s Aydin Babakhani has won a Bell Labs Prize for his work on new devices that could open the door to the imaging of our world in new ways.

Lawrence Zipursky, distinguished professor of biological chemistry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will be honored with the 19th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize,