Faculty Bulletin Board

Neil Garg, professor of chemistry at UCLA, has been honored by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

The grant will support research into therapies to treat a range of pediatric cancers and blood diseases.

Education Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and cancer researcher Dr. Antoni Ribas were honored for their work as naturalized citizens who have made contributions to American society.

Panagiotis Christofides has been selected to receive the 2018 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award by the American Institute of Chemcal Engineers.

Brenda Stevenson, the Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History, has been chosen as one of two William Andrews Clark professors of 2019–20.

Elizabeth DeLoughrey has the University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship and a Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Fellowship.

Volker Nocke, Michela Giorcelli and Katherine Meckel were recently appointed members of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

UCLA’s Dr. Olujimi Ajijola has been recognized for his work studying how cardiac injury induces remodeling within the cardiac nervous system.

Stephanie Jamison, distinguished professor of Asian languages and cultures, has been elected to the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.

David Wong Louie's personal essay “Eat, Memory” has been selected for “The Best American Essays 2018.”

Algirdas Avizienis has been recognized for his paper that influenced the theory and practice of dependable computing.

Kelly Lytle Hernández is being awarded the 2018 Freedom Now Award from the Los Angeles Community Action Network.

His citation read, in part, “With elegant equations and imaginative models, you have transformed our understanding of cause and effect, probability, and uncertainty.”

Gail Wyatt, director of the Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities at UCLA’s Semel Institute, has been awarded a $1.5-million grant over three years from the California Wellness Foundation, a private philanthropy.

Jeffrey Zink, distinguished professor of chemistry, received the Tolman Award, the American Chemical Society Southern California Section's highest honor. The award was presented by Robert de Groot, chair of the Southern California section of the ...

Nancy Jo Bush, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Nursing, received the Mary Nowotny Excellence in Cancer Nursing Education Award from the Oncology Nursing Society.

UCLA’s Ingrid Eagly is a leading scholar and advocate of immigrant rights and indigent criminal defense.

Bahram Jalali has been named the recipient of the 2018 Pioneer in Technology Award from the Brain Mapping Foundation and Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics.

Willy Hugo was honored by the American Association of Cancer Research.

Matthias Aschenbrenner was recognized with the Association for Symbolic Logic’s ninth Carol Karp Prize along with two other mathematicians.

Jay Lu won the award, which honors best undergraduate teaching in Winter 2018, for his class on behavioral economics. 

UCLA Law professor E. Tendayi Achiume gave her first address to the UN General Assembly on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Linda Sarna received the 2018 Oncology Nursing Society Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding career contributions.

Devon Carbado has been named the 2018–19 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation.

The faculty winners were Denise Chavira, Chandra Ford, Heather Maynard and Victoria Sork. The staff winner was Erin O’Leary Sanders.