Faculty Bulletin Board

Amit Sahai, UCLA professor of computer science, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from DARPA to develop software that can't be hacked.

A new research protocol developed by a UCLA team led by public health professor William McCarthy is being recommended by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use by other researchers.

Janet Frank, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a $400,000 grant to study mental health services for seniors.

UCLA associate professor Benjamin Ellingson is the 2015 recipient of a research scholar grant of $790,000 from the American Cancer Society to further develop a new imaging technique for the early identification of brain cancer tumors.

Bhagwan Chowdhry, professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is serving as the inaugural visiting scholar at Stellar Development Foundation.

Todd Yeates, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the 2016 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Delano Award for Computational Biosciences.

"Hawaiian Plant Life: Vegetation and Flora" (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014) by Phil Rundel, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and two co-authors won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award of Excellence in Natural Science from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has established the Barbara Boyle Promising Producers Prize.

Héctor Calderón, professor of Spanish American, Mexican, and Chicano literature and cultures, was named chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

UCLA's Charles Corbett, professor of operations management and sustainability, has been named the IBM Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

No-Hee Park, dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry and Distinguished Professor of Dentistry and of Medicine, has decided to step down as dean on June 30, 2016, and return to his research and teaching.

James Welling, professor of photography at UCLA’s department of art, will have a solo exhibition that features 50 pieces that demonstrate painter Andrew Wyeth’s formative influence on Welling’s career.

Dr. Aichi Chien, an associate professor of radiological sciences, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bee Foundation to advance her research on the computational analysis of brain aneurysms.

Dominique Hanssens, Bud Knapp Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, is the recipient of an award for his lifetime contributions to the theory and practice of marketing.

Dr. Timothy Miller, a UCLA emeritus professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, was honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America with an Excellence in the Sciences Award.

Janet Ruth Hadda, a Yiddish professor of Germanic languages, psychoanalyst and biographer, died June 23 in from metastatic cancer. She was 69.

John Hawkins, emeritus professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has published 'Research, Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education.'

Michelle Caswell, assistant professor of information studies, received the Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her book, 'Archiving the the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia.'

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.

Matthew Lieberman, professor of psychology at UCLA, received the 2015 SESP Career Trajectory Award on behalf of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

Glen MacDonald, UCLA’s John Muir Memorial Endowed Chair in Geography, and Laurence C. Smith, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography, have been elected to the Class of 2015 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union.

Professor Christopher Russell of the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics testified before Congress on July 28 about his work with NASA’s Dawn Mission, which he leads.

Kang Wang, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering, is received the 2015 Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding Research Award.

Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has been reelected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors for 2015-16.

Hal Hershfield, assistant professor of marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and two collaborators have been selected to receive a $200,000 research grant from the Imagination Institute.