Faculty Bulletin Board

The astrophysicist is being honored by the UK academy for her 'acclaimed discoveries ... on the motions and nature of the stars orbiting the black hole in the centre of our Galaxy.'

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of society and genetics as well as environmental health sciences, has received a 2015 Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA education professor, has been appointed by UNESCO as the inaugural chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education.

Sally Frautschy, a professor of neurology at UCLA, has received a $300,000 grant to fund her work on brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.

Hal Hershfield from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management will receive a grant from the Imagination Institute, together with Diana Tamir of Princeton University, to fund their project on exploring the imagination.

C. Cindy Fan has been appointed UCLA’s vice provost for international studies and global engagement, announced UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott L. Waugh.   Since 2012, Fan served on an interim basis as vice provost for international s

Professor Lionel Popkin is the new chair of the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, according to an announcement made by Interim Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture David Roussève.

Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, will appear on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on July 15 as co-host of a tribute to the archive, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Asad Madni, Distinguished Adjunct Professor in UCLA's department of electrical engineering, has been inducted as an eminent member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of electrical engineers.

Dr. Rajan Kulkarni, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and clinical instructor in the division of dermatology, has been granted a Young Investigator Award of $75,000 on behalf of the Melanoma Research Alliance.

Diane Favro, UCLA professor of architecture and urban design, has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Diana Bontà, adjunct professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded the Hispanics in Philanthropy Giver Award for her leadership in health funding in California.

Professor Sudipto Banerjee, chair of the department of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a 2015 Distinguished Achievement Medal by the American Statistical Association.

Stephen Aron, an authority on the American West and author of “The American West: A Very Short Introduction,” recently published by Oxford University, is the new Robert N. Burr Chair of UCLA’s department of history. Since joining the department in ...

Dr. Clarence Braddock III, vice dean for education and chief medical education officer at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named chair of the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine. 

This year on Independence Day, Eugene Volokh, professor at UCLA School of Law, was one among 38 naturalized citizens to be recognized by the organization as part of its “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” initiative.

The American Society of Human Genetics has named UCLA researcher Leonid Kruglyak the 2015 recipient of the Curt Stern Award for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics early in his career.

Dr. Siavash Kurdistani, associate director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center's Gene Regulation Program, has been appointed chair of the UCLA Department of Biological Chemistry, beginning July 1.

The UCLA Department of Medicine will lead partners focused on reducing imaging for nonspecific low back pain, pre-operative testing and antibiotics for viral-based upper respiratory illness.

Five early-career researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior have been selected to receive 2015 Friends Scholars Awards of $100,000 over two years to support their research.

Dr. Alan Felsenfeld, a professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was appointed chair of the American Dental Association’s Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition.

Shaina Zaidi, a former UCLA Women’s Basketball student-athlete, has been named director of the Bruin Varsity Club by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.

Four research projects will receive inaugural grants in a new UCLA School of Dentistry program to provide seed funding to launch pioneering basic and translational research.

Social welfare assistant professor from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Ian Holloway has been selected as a 2015-16 Hellman Fellow for his research.

MarySue Heilemann, associate professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, will present the 2015 National Institute of Nursing Research Lecture on June 24 at the National Institutes for Health.