Faculty Bulletin Board

Ellen Sletten, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Tony Nowatzki received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how to sustain exponential single-thread performance growth in microarchitecture.

Haruzo Hida was honored by the American Mathematical Society for his landmark contributions to the field.

Dr. William Oppenheim received the distinguished service award in orthopaedic surgery from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Burt Totaro, professor of mathematics at UCLA, was recognized for his career of contributions and service.

Jane Chang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA, is the first female scientist to ever receive the Plasma Prize.

Teeter, who is lecturer in American Indian studies and archaeology curator at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, received the Honored One award.

Achuta Kadambi research focus aims to give robots extraordinary vision capabilities beyond what human eyes are capable of.

Aaswath Raman will receive the inaugural Nelson “Buck” Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy.

Dr. Hans David Ulmert, member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is being honored by the Society for Basic Urologic Research.

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Joshua Groban to fill the vacancy created when Justice Kathryn Werdegar retired in 2017.

Martin Monti received the International Guiseppe Sciacca award for using ultrasounds to stimulate brain activity in people with serious brain injuries.

The $3.5 million, five-year grant will go toward creating a center dedicated to developing an effective and affordable blood-based, cancer-screening test.

Blaire Van Valkenburgh received the Joseph T. Gregory award for her contributions to the organization’s welfare.

Alain Mabanckou received the 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright legacy award for his novel, “Black Moses.”

UCLA’s Baljit Khakh will receive $1.5 million over three years for research into astrocytes, which are thought to play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease.

Casey Reas’ work, “Software Structures,” is in the museum’s “Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018” exhibition.

Shaily Mahendra has received a 2018 Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman award from the Government of India Non-Resident Indian Welfare Society.

An interdisciplinary team will produce a database that analyzes text, images, video and audio from different sources of media and identify large-scale patterns within the data.

Dr. Bill Piskorowski, associate dean for community-based clinical education at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was selected as a Fellow by the American College of Dentists.

Elaine Hsiao studies the trillions of microbes the body contains that impact health and disease, and seeks to understand how they influence the brain and behavior.

Dr. Roger Lo, UCLA professor of dermatology, has been awarded $100,000 to conduct research that helps doctors and scientists better understand cancers that affect women.

Dr. Amar Kishan, a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is being honored by the Radiation Oncology Institute.

David Myers, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA, will promote democracy and equal rights as the organization’s president.

Dennis Lettenmaier, distinguished professor of geography, received the Robert E. Horton Medal for his contributions to Earth and space sciences.