Faculty Bulletin Board

UCLA’s Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw was recognized for her contributions to social justice and equality and position as a role model for women and girls.

Rafail Ostrovsky received the RSA Conference 2018 Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.

Dr. Judith Currier, has been named chair of the largest clinical trials network focused on HIV.

In addition, Presner, who is a co-principle investigator on UCLA’s urban humanities initiative, has been appointed associate dean of digital innovation.

Renee Tajima-Peña will receive the Past//Forward Award from Visual Communications, the nation's longest-running Asian Pacific American media arts center.

He assumes the role after serving as interim vice chancellor since July 2016.

UCLA’s Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael has received the 2018 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award for Brain Repair.

UCLA surgeon Dr. Nina Shapiro has published a book that aims to transform its readers into savvier and more empowered consumers and patients.

Richard Kaner won the award, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to solid-state synthesis, energy storage materials and super hard materials.”

Feldman, distinguished professor of neurobiology, and Jamison, professor of Asian languages and cultures, were selected for the honor, which began at UCLA in 1925.

Adnan Darwiche, Yvonne Chen, Jonathan Hopkins and Jia-Ming Liu were winners at the school’s annual awards dinner.

Erin Besler was selected for her proposal to study the problematic nature of corner conditions in architecture.

American Skin Association selected Dr. Roger Lo for the Abby S. and Howard P. Milstein Innovation Award for Melanoma/Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Research.

Kang Wang, Raytheon Company Professor of Electrical Engineering, has received the 2018 Magnetism Award and Néel Medal for his discovery of chiral Majorana fermions.

Dr. Daniela Silva was chosen based on her leadership, achievements and involvement in the dental profession and community.

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, assistant professor of community health sciences at UCLA, received the Early Achievement Award from the Population Association of America.

Six UCLA professors have been elected to the 2018 class of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Independent Publisher Book Awards honored “Judith F. Baca,” by Anna Indych-López and “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell,” which was edited by UCLA’s Rebecca Epstein.

Dr. Eric Sung was recognized by the Special Care Dentistry Association with the Dr. Lawrence J. Chasko Distinguished Service Award.

Mario Gerla was named recipient of the INFOCOM Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Jingyi “Jessica” Li, a UCLA assistant professor of statistics, has been selected as one of six inaugural winners of the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars Award.

Kelly Lytle Hernández has won the 2018 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for her book “City of Inmates.”

Dr. James Ch’ng and Dr. Theodore Moore are both part of the division of pediatric hematology/oncology at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Physicist Paul Hamilton has been named as a “rising research star” by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Four faculty members in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies will be honored at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting.