Faculty Bulletin Board

Halfon, founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the academy.

Three researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently been awarded grants from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The grant comes from Shandong Longlive Bio-technology Co., a China-based company that produces functional sugars.

MarySue Heilemann, associate professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, has focused her scholarship on improving the accuracy of portrayals of nurses in film and television.

Chong Liu, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry, was selected as one of the exceptional scientists age 40 and younger who are “ready to transform their fields.”

The honor for UCLA professor Carrie Bearden comes from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the nation’s top non-governmental funder of mental health research grants.

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, associate professor of economics, is now on the editorial board of the American Economic Review.

Carol Bakhos is the principal investigator for “Religious Landscapes of Los Angeles: Teaching and Exploring Religious Diversity Through Civic Engagement.”

William Zame, distinguished professor of economics, honored for his “contributions to game theory.”

Sergei Tochitsky, research engineer in the UCLA Plasma Accelerator Group, has been elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Juliet Williams and Abigail Saguy have received a three-year, $325,000 award from the Law and Social Science and Sociology programs of the National Science Foundation.

Giovanni Zocchi received the prize for inventing a nanotechnology measuring method called “nano-rheology,” which can measure enzyme deformations smaller than an atom.

UCLA is one of 11 national centers, and the first in Los Angeles, to earn the inaugural designation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association.

Dr. Linda Liau is only the second woman to chair an academic department of neurosurgery in the United States.

Dr. Steven Jonas’ awards from Hyundai Hope on Wheels Foundation and Alex’s Lemonade Stand support his work to harness cellular immunotherapies.

Gail Kligman, associate vice provost of the UCLA International Institute, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

James Stigler, a professor of developmental and cognitive psychology at UCLA, has been named the first Fellow of the Precision Institute at National University.

Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, and Thomas Lipkin of the UCLA Technology Development Group, have been recognized by Biocom.

Gina Kim, a professor of film, television and digital media, won for her 12-minute film “Bloodless.”

Sandra Harding, distinguished research professor of education, has taken part in founding a new open access journal: “Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society.”

The Faculty Practice Group is a 1,200-plus member academic practice and is one of the largest physician groups participating in the California healthcare industry.

Bringing UCLA’s scholarship into the community, Miriam Posner and Ellen Scott spoke about the history of the silent race film at the California African American Museum.

Gary Segura has been named vice president of the American Political Science Association, the leading professional organization for the study of political science.

Dr. Jeffrey Saver received the Gold Heart Award, the American Heart Association’s highest volunteer honor, for his work fighting heart disease and stroke.

Heather Maynard has been named a 2018 recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, which honors excellence in organic chemistry.