Faculty Bulletin Board

A UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television professor and a lecturer won awards; UCLA TFT also gave awards to alumni.

Walter Allen, the Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education at UCLA, will deliver the prestigious talk at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting.

Harris was honored with 2018 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching for her work as an educator and devotion to her students.

The Music Man Foundation grant will allow the hospital to expand its music therapy program.

UCLA’s Asad Madni delivered the keynote address at the 2018 inaugural IEEE Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems.

Dr. Antoni Ribas has been awarded the sixth American Association of Cancer Research-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award.

Charles Jensen was recently awarded the Poetry Prize from Zócalo Public Square.

Shu-mei Shih will explore and compare the conceptual boundaries underlying the terms “Sinophone” and “Francophone.”

André Nel, associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute,was recently bestowed an honorary doctorate, by his alma mater, Stellenbosch University.

Victoria Vesna, professor of design media arts, is featured in an exhibition that explores society’s obsession with birds through various media.

She will take over from Gerald Kominski, who will remain as senior fellow with the center, starting July 1.

Dr. David Padua and a collaborator received their grant from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation for research into better understanding and treatment of IBD.

Issam Najm, adjunct associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, was recently elected to the George Warren Fuller Society.

The debut novel of Justin Torres, assistant professor of English at UCLA, has been translated into 15 languages and was recently adapted into a film of the same name.

Shushan Karapetian received the Russ Campbell Young Scholar Award in Heritage Language Education.

Uri McMillan, associate professor of English and African American studies, was awarded a faculty research grant from the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California.

Allison Carruth, associate professor of English, has been awarded $15,000 from the UCLA Arts Initiative “Campus as Canvas” grant.

The national Clinical Research Forum has selected a study led by Dr. Jeffrey Saver to receive a Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award for 2018.

Dr. Kenneth Wells, has received the award for his career of contributions to mental health.

Dr. Richard Shemin has been elected to the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors as a Surgical Specialty Society.

Hugo Hopenhayn was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal “Innovations, Innovators and Knowledge Transfer.”

The award, established in 2015, recognizes UCLA emeriti for exemplary service to the university and their department.

William Clark, Rita Effros and Judea Pearl are being recognized for contributions in their fields since retirement and for serving as examples of intellectual achievement.

Ankur Mehta, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCLA, aims to make robots as pervasive as computers are today.

The money from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation will establish the Hearst Theater Lab Initiative.