Faculty Bulletin Board

Peipei Ping, professor of physiology, medicine and bioinformatics at UCLA, was named co-recipient of the 2018 Clinical and Translational Proteomics Award.

UCLA’s Kevan Harris has won the Nikki Keddie Book Award and the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize for “A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran.”

Frederick Zimmerman will become president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences.

UCLA’s Onyebuchi Arah has been awarded an Honorary Skou Professorship from Aarhus University in Denmark.

The Eisner Foundation will support Generation Xchange, TimeOut@UCLA, and the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program.

Dr. Linda Liau, UCLA professor of neurosurgery, has been awarded the Abhijit Guha Award for her pioneering work on treating brain tumors.

Dr. Reza Ardehali, Dr. Siavash Kurdistani and Dr. Maureen Su have joined one of the oldest and most esteemed nonprofit honor societies of physician-scientists.

Thomas Belin, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, delivered the Lowell Reed Lectureship during the association’s annual meeting.

Margaret Kivelson, professor of earth, planetary and space physics in the UCLA College, was honored for a lifetime of achievements in planetary and space sciences.

Jimenez Lai was recognized for his design studio “Bureau Spectacular.”

Oliver Hankinson, distinguished research professor of environmental health sciences at UCLA, has been named recipient of the 2019 Society of Toxicology Education Award.

Eric Pei-Yu Chiou, Warren Grundfest, Mona Jarrahi, Yuanxun “Ethan” Wang and Chee Wei Wong have been honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was honored for having “demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation.”

Steven Wallace, professor of community health sciences, was recently honored by the American Public Health Association.

Andrea Kasko, associate professor of bioengineering at UCLA, was appointed vice chair of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymer Chemistry.

Sam Emaminejad, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the University of Waterloo’s Young Alumni Achievement Medal.

Rebecca Allen’s work takes the form of virtual and augmented reality art, experimental video and large-scale performances.

Dr. John Clemens, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected as co-recipient of the 2018 Prince Mahidol Award.

Adnan Darwiche, Mario Gerla and Amit Sahai have been elected as fellows of the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.

Dr. Inma Cobos is one among just 17 young researchers in the United States to receive the award, which she will use to study Alzheimer’s disease.

The five-year award Elaine Hsiao will support her research into mapping cellular networks to better understand how the microbiome contributes to neurodegenerative diseases.

Kelly Lytle Hernández was announced today as one of two 2018 Local Heroes honored by KCET.

Lauren McCarthy was selected to participate in the 2019 American Arts Incubator program.

Janet Mentes, professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, assumed the presidency of the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence.

Gilbert Gee, professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2018 Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum.