Faculty Bulletin Board

Carey Nachenberg, an adjunct professor of computer science and a developer of Norton Antivirus software for the security firm Symantec, has authored the techno-thriller, “The Florentine Deception,” due out on April 14.

Design Media Arts professor Rebeca Méndez has been selected as one of 14 artists to create art installations that will decorate one of the stations on Metro’s forthcoming Crenshaw/LAX light rail line.

​Brenda Stevenson, a professor at UCLA who specializes in African-American history, has been appointed a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.

Gary Gates is the Williams Institute’s inaugural Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director. This critical position at the Williams Institute was made possible by leadership gifts totaling almost $3 million by generous donors.

A UCLA stroke study on improving stroke care was selected by the Clinical Research Forum as one of the 10 most outstanding research papers written by teams from across the nation in 2014.

UCLA professors emeriti Francis Chen, Leonard Kleinrock and Antony Orme have been selected to receive the 2015 Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award.

Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, will receive Liberty Hill Foundation’s Upton Sinclair Award, given to those dedicated to advancing social justice.

The UCLA Academic Senate has named associate professor Paul Barber and professor Dwayne Simmons as joint recipients of the 2014-2015 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.

The UCLA Academic Personnel Office recently announced the recipients of the Unit 18 professional development awards for 2014-15. The awards support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of lecturers, officially known as Unit 18 ...

The American Planning Association has named 'parking guru' Donald Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning, as the recipient of its 2015 National Planning Pioneer Award.

Dean Rachel Moran has been named to Lawyers of Color’s fourth annual Power List, a comprehensive catalog of the nation’s most influential minority attorneys and non-minority diversity advocates. She was profiled in the 2015 Lawyers of Color Power issue.

Gerald López was awarded the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award for his deep engagement in community lawyering and record of public service.

Raymond Knapp has been selected for the 2015 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Knapp will complete a one-month residency in Bogliasco, Italy, where he will complete his latest book on Haydn and American popular music.

Sriram Kosuri, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was honored today as a 2015 Searle Scholar, which recognizes young scientists for their contributions to chemical and biological research.

The recipient of the 2015 My Last Lecture Award is Randall Rojas, assistant adjunct professor of economics and an alumnus who holds three UCLA degrees.

UCLA sociology professor emeritus David Lopez has been appointed inaugural UCLA faculty retirement liaison.

Dr. Owen Witte, the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, will receive the G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, the American Association for Cancer Research announced today.

Bioengineering faculty member Dino Di Carlo has been admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom.

UCLA bioengineering professor Dean Ho has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

UCLA electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh received an honorary doctorate from the Universit Autònoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

If successful, the team’s voltage nanosensors would greatly enhance scientists’ ability to study the brain.

Andrea Fraser, professor of new genres in the UCLA art department, will have a comprehensive survey of her work exhibited at the Museum de Moderne Salzburg in Austria.

Chang-Jin 'CJ' Kim, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the 2015 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering.

A 2001 book by UCLA political science professor Michael Chwe — “Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge” (Princeton University Press) —  has been chosen as the seventh selection for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s book club.

Noah Zatz was awarded a John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for his project proposal, 'Precarious Work in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration.'