Faculty Bulletin Board

Dr. James Cherry, a distinguished research professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded the 2016 Bill Marshall Award.

“The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations,” a book written by UCLA professor of political science Michael Ross and published in 2012, has now been translated into three languages: Russian, Portuguese and Arabic — languages ...

Professors Edward De Robertis and John Agnew join select group of UCLA's most accomplished scholars.

The Department of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs has once again been named the most influential planning school in North America, according to an analysis by Thomas W. Sanchez of Virginia Tech.

A UCLA engineer is on an international team of engineers and biologists attempting to get unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently in order to design unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings.

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty members Raynor Carroll (percussion), James Miller (trombone), and Thomas Hooten (trumpet), were some of the members of the L.A. Phil, to perform on Stephen Colbert's nightly show.

Director of pediatric otolaryngology and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Shapiro is co-editor of a new book for health care professionals.

Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Evan Frankel Professor of Policy and Practice at UCLA School of Law, won the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for environmental law.

UCLA Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne and lecturer Wil Carson have received 2016 Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards from ARCHITECT, the journal of the American Institute of Architects.

'Recent advances in 3D printing of biomaterials' was the year's most frequently accessed study in the Journal of Biological Engineering.

The professor of human genetics and biological chemistry has been awarded the 2016 Edward Novitski Prize for his pioneering body of work in genetics.

Dan McLaughlin, who, for 37 years, headed an animation program at UCLA that was considered one of the finest in the country, died in his sleep on March 15 in West Hills, California. He was 83.

Silva and Tetradis were selected as being among the most promising individuals to become leaders in dental and higher education.

A charge nurse at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Vandegrift oversees an ongoing stream of patients and the doctors and nurses who care for them.

The honor recognizes the professor of education and Asian American studies for notable and sustained research achievements.

Beginning March 22, Peter Cowe, the Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies at UCLA, and Movses Pogossian, UCLA professor of violin, will lead a group of graduate students from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music to Armenia.

The UCLA lecturer leads the Vietnamese language program and also prepares immigrant volunteers to teach Vietnamese in their communities.

The annual award recognizes researchers, innovators and inventors from around the world for their achievements and contributions to science and technology.

A renowned authority on Egyptian archaeology, Wendrich takes the reins of one of the most important global research centers in archaeology.

The professor and chair of the UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has made significant contributions to earthquake science.

The award is given annually 'for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles.'

The meeting, in Vienna, Austria, is to develop science-based recommendations to ensure access to antiretroviral therapies for people with HIV/AIDS who also use drugs.

Over the years, the Hellman Fellows Fund has supported more than 850 junior faculty members who are now chairs and heads of departments, MacArthur fellows and tenured faculty with long successful track records.

Professor Christine Borgman’s “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” has won the the 2016 PROSE Awards in the computing and information sciences category.

The $2.8 million NSF grant will support Sandoval's UCLA research team working in collaboration with teachers in the Montebello Unified School District.