Faculty Bulletin Board

Dr. Zev Wainberg has been awarded the 2018 Fishman Family Seed Grant.

Dr. No-Hee Park was recognized for his contribution to society and the STEM fields.

The J. Lawrence Smith Medal is awarded by the Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Air travel mitigation fees will be placed into a fund, which will then be made available annually to the campus to finance university projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Dr. Mario Deng, a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at UCLA, has been is one of the magazine’s 27 cardiologists recognized as an exemplary physician.

Miguel García-Garibay spoke at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science’s annual STEM conference.

Mark Mack and his firm won the AIA Nebraska Excellence in Architecture Merit Award for 2017 for their work on the Kaneko Museum.

Fraser, whose work is associated with institutional critique, feminist practice, group relations, project-based art and context art takes over from Hirsch Perlman.

UCLA professor of medicine honored by the California chapter of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl, who directs UCLA’s multiple sclerosis program, has been selected as the recipient of an award from the Berlin Institute of Health.

Professors Lara Ray and Carrie Bearden were honored by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology at its annual meeting.

Jill Waterman, co-developer of UCLA TIES for Families, received the Adoption Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Mitchell Spearrin, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Catherine Opie delivered the 2017 Walter Annenberg Lecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art and also was recently named to the board of directors for the Mike Kelly Foundation.

Edward L. Wright, a professor who holds UCLA’s David Saxon Presidential Chair in Physics, shared in the prize, which honors major insights into the deepest questions of the universe.

UCLA professor Sarah Haley’s book has been recognized by the American Historical Association and the American Studies Association.

UCLA students won more awards than any other university at the recent Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.

Judea Pearl will receive the society’s 2018 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling.

Dr. Alireza Moshaverinia was awarded nealry $200,00 in research funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Kenneth Hudnut will receive the 2017 Ivan I. Mueller Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership at the annual American Geophysical Union.

Jennifer Steinkamp’s “Winter Fountains” feature animations of nature, ethereal rocks and lightning and will line the Benjamin Franklin Parkway beginning Nov. 30.

Nanthia Suthana was awarded a $3.3 million, three-year grant funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Gregg Fonarow was honored with the 2017 Chairman’s Award saluting excellence in volunteer service.

Aslı Bâli was recognized for her work challenging the travel ban of the current presidential administration and for her work protecting academic freedom.

Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams and Lauren McCarthy, who are part of the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio, will have work showcased at ‘Day for Night’ in Texas.