Faculty Bulletin Board

The UCLA Academic Senate has selected psychology professor Robert Bjork and history professor Arch Getty as the recipients of the 2015-2016 Faculty Research Lectureships.

Scott Brandenberg, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.

Dr. Karin Nielsen, UCLA professor of pediatric infectious diseases, has won a prestigious Brazilian prize in health sciences.

Carol Kruse, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in immunological therapy for brain cancer, passed away on March 28 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 61.

David Myers, professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair in the UCLA College’s Department of History, has been awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History.

UCLA School of Law has been ranked No. 1 in The Hollywood Reporter’s listing of the top entertainment law schools.

Four UCLA brain researchers have been selected for two of six awards recently announced by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to support work at the frontier of one of the most challenging roadblocks in neuroscience: growing mature human brain cells in the laboratory.

New endowed chair will support teaching, research and patient care for special needs patients and will be held by the head of the school’s section of special patient care.

UCLA's Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital received a grant of $60,000 from the LA Women’s Circle of Giving.

UCLA history professor Ivan Berend, who was liberated from Dachau 70 years ago and became a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism, retired last week at the age of 85.

Harold Demsetz, an emeritus professor of business economics at UCLA, has won the Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of New Institutional Economics.

Philip Rundel, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po`okela Award of Excellence for Books on Natural Science.

A generous gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro, all of whom are UCLA alumni, funded the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences.

Ken Klee has received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Bankruptcy.

Behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi, professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is publishing ‘Thinking Smarter: Seven Steps to Your Fulfilling Retirement...and Life’ on May 12.

UCLA's Daniel Oppenheimer and Guillaume Roels, have been named among 'The World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors' by Poets and Quants.

Anthony Tolbert, director of learning environment and academic affairs and an adjunct faculty member at UCLA Law, has received the UCLA Chancellor’s Diversity Leadership Scholarship.

Debora Silverman, a professor of history and art history at UCLA, has been selected to receive a 2015-16 fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

UCLA associate professor Rachel Lee discusses her new book, 'The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America,' at noon on May 5 in the Powell Library East Rotunda.

The U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on higher education heard Charles Alexander, UCLA associate vice provost for student diversity, testify about the success of the Academic Advancement Program.

Actress Judith Moreland, an adjunct professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), conceived and co-created the school's new Professional Program in Acting for the Camera.

Ann Carlson, a visiting professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance, has been honored with the 2015 Doris Duke Artist Award.

UCLA's Judea Pearl, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Teri Schwartz, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, will be honored by the inaugural CayFilm Cayman International Film Festival with the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Producing. The festival takes place June 18-21 on ...

Dr. Clifford Ko, professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been selected to be part of a new advisory panel for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.