Faculty Bulletin Board

Richard Strassberg’s 2016 book, “Thirty Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints,” translates the Kangxi emperor’s “Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat,” written to commemorate the emperor's new summer palace.

A piano professor in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Inna Faliks has been named to Stony Brook University’s list of outstanding alumni 40 years of age or younger.

Social welfare research professor Yeheskel “Zeke” Hasenfeld and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs alumna Eve Garrow have been named winners of the Social Service Review’s 2017 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize.

UCLA architecture professor Greg Lynn, renown for his visionary designs, is one of the principles behind a new robotic product that is being launched this month by Piaggio Fast Forward.

UCLA's Priyanga Amarasekare, professor of  ecology and evolutionary biology, does research that focuses on how the interplay between abiotic environmental variation and biotic interactions influences ecological and evolutionary dynamics.

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at UCLA, has received an R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

UCLA professor Daniel Blumstein has been named this year’s recipient of the Animal Behavior Society’s Quest Award, given to recognize outstanding seminal contributions to the science of animal behavior.

Leon Katz, 97, died Jan. 23 at his home in Encino from complications due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  

The association's rising star designation is presented to outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research careers.

The Cornell Tech campus, part of which has been designed by UCLA architecture professor Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis, has been named one of Business Insider’s top seven mega-projects that will transform New York City.

Xinshu (Grace) Xiao, UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology, is among 33 outstanding scientists nationwide to be awarded a grant to expand the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded Andrea Fraser, professor of art at UCLA, a $40,000 unrestricted grant, one of four given to visual artists.

The "global village" of open communication that the Internet was supposed to have formed hasn't materialized, says Ramesh Srinivasan in a new book.

The medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts is the most distinguished awarded in the field.

Veronica Santos, UCLA associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a $719,000 grant from the Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research.

Dr. Joel Braslow and Philippe Bourgois of the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities at UCLA’s Semel Institute have won a three-year, $1 million grant from the L.A. County Department of Mental Health to study how the county deploys urgent psychiatric care.

Recipients are recognized for distinguished scholarly contributions across long and productive careers.

The map of Michael Storper’s career-long study of economic geography is characterized by “depth and quality,” according to the American Association of Geographers.

Eric Becklin, a professor emeritus in physics and astronomy, has been selected for the American Astronomical Society’s 2017 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship.

The annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings by Education Week features 10 UCLA faculty, who are among the 200 top education professors across the nation.

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law presents a comprehensive overview of issues related to access, ethics, insurance and provider regulation, among other topics.

The award recognizes excellent psychologists who are in the early stages of their research careers.

Two volumes edited by Richard Hovannisian, Armenian Van and Armenian Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush, have been released in Turkish translation by Aras Publishers in Istanbul.

Georgina Huljich, assistant adjunct professor of architecture and urban design, is a principal of the architectural firm P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. She is involved in designing a mixed-use mega-project for downtown L.A.

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA professor of history and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, is the winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic culture.