Faculty Bulletin Board

Clarke, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been named the 2018 recipient of the William C. Rose Award.

Ninez Ponce, principal investigator for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, joins the 15-person group that advises the center on health care-related issues.

Kent Wong has received the 2017 Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award from the National Education Association.

The exhibit “Extreme Mammals” highlights two areas of her laboratory's research — the origins of bats’ wings and the evolution of marsupials.

Distinguish professor Kuo-Nan Liou has been named recipient of the 2018 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal.

Alyson Fletcher, UCLA assistant professor of statistics, and colleagues are bringing together researchers to discuss challenges in understanding how the human brain works.

John Agnew, distinguished professor of geography and Italian, has been named a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

Asad Madni is being given an award by the honor society for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

He succeeds Edward Leamer as head of the forecast, which has become one of the most widely watched and respected economic outlooks for California and the nation.

The committee seeks to improve the statistical methods and information on which public policy decisions are based.

National Institutes of Health has awarded a network of 80 hospitals and ambulance agencies $830,000.

Dr. Nicholas Nickols, assistant professor of radiation oncology, has received the 2017 VALOR Young Investigator Award by the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Kevin Njabo to speak in Tanzania about the Congo Basin Institute and a hopeful vision for Africa’s future.

The Wasserman Dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies will be a keynote speaker at the International Baccalaureate conference in Orlando, Florida.

The chair honors a UCLA professor who is an accomplished researcher, teacher and mentor to future engineering leaders.

Roberge, who has been on faculty since 2002, is the principal designer and founder of the building design company Murmur: Architecture and Environments.

Jonathan Stewart, professor and chair of the civil and environmental engineering department, gave a talk on the seismic threats to California’s water transport.

Weiss, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and materials science and engineering, has been elected as one of two new international fellows.

The council of doctors, researchers and other professionals will bolster the program’s ability to serve schools through sharing a current research and accumulated experience.

Dr. Patricia Ganz, of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, assumed the editorial leadership of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on July 1.

Michelle Caswell has been named one of the recipients of the 2017 Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award.

Sean Young’s book, “Stick With It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life — for Good,” uses decades of research to give people effective tools for altering habits.

Ozan Jaquette will use the $70,000 fellowship from the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation to support his research on the off-campus recruitment patterns of public research universities.

Randall Akee is the 2016-17 recipient of the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA.

The professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and chair of the Disability Studies minor assumed the role effective July 1, 2017.