Faculty Bulletin Board

Beverly Lynch, professor of information studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, has received the 2015 Beta Phi Mu Award from the American Library Association.

Dr. James B. Atkinson has been named the interim associate vice chancellor and president of UCLA Hospital System. He serves in this role while the search for a replacement for Dr. David Feinberg continues.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been selected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching until 2019.

More than $220,000 was raised for the Donald and Pat Shoup Endowed Fellowship in Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Christine Dunkel Schetter begins her new role on July 1.

Raphael Rose, associate director of UCLA’s Anxiety and Depression Research Center, has been awarded a grant from NASA for research to support the health of astronauts on deep space missions.

Danovitch, medical director of UCLA’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, received the award that honors finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education.

UCLA adjunct professor Mark Gold has been appointed associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability, effective July 1.

Computer science pioneer Judea Pearl will address artificial intelligence applications to medical diagnoses when he delivers the keynote address at a conference for the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

President Barack Obama today named UCLA physicist Claudio Pellegrini as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, a Presidential Award and one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.

Professors Ian Larkin, Danny Oppenheimer and Bruce Carlin of the UCLA Anderson School of Management are being recognized for excellence in teaching, research, leadership and mentorship.

Pedro Noguera, currently the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Rebeca Méndez, a professor in UCLA’s Department of Design|Media Arts, is a member of a design team selected to design the Tucson January 8 Memorial and the El Presidio Park master plan. 

Throughout his career in educational research, Louis Gomez, chair and professor of education and information studies, has sought to improve the life chances of students with a focus on improving educational innovations.

Aisha Finch, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies and African American studies, has published the new book, 'Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844.'

UCLA’s 2015-16 Distinguished Teaching Awards to non-Academic Senate faculty, teaching assistants have been announced.

Miguel Garcia-Garibay, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected by UCLA Staff Assembly to receive the 2015 Faculty-Staff Partnership Award.

Dr. Sunil Sheth, a fellow in radiological sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded $154,000 to advance his research on a lab test to diagnose stroke from a single drop of blood.

Works by six UCLA art faculty are featured in the new Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition, 'America is Hard to See.'

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, has a new grant-funded project to tell the story of young black and Latino men who, despite troubling statistics surrounding their identities, are thriving academically.

UCLA’s Community Partners in Care has won an international award that highlights the power and potential of community-campus partnerships as a strategy for health equity and social justice.

UCLA professor Dennis Hong, one of the world’s leading designers of humanoid robots, served as host of the May 21 premiere of 'Robot Revolution,' an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

As of July 1, several centers and programs at the UCLA International Institute will have new directors and associate directors, and the Institute itself will have a new associate vice provost.

Neil Denari recognized for his significant contributions to architecture and society and for excellence in the profession.

The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, is a participant in ‘What It Means to Be American,’ a national conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square.