Faculty Bulletin Board

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw of the UCLA School of Law has been named among the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Professors Patricia Gándara, Sandra Graham and Noreen Webb, all on faculty in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, have been elected to the National Academy of Education.

Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been selected a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar.

Professor emeritus Richard Roll of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has won the 2015 Onassis Prize for Finance.

UCLA 'parking guru' Donald Shoup, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, will retire on June 30.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $200,000 grant to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center to help the center make accessible seven archival collections of newspapers, magazines, personal papers, photographs, correspondence and other materials.

UCLA professor John Villasenor testified in a U.S. Senate hearing on issues of safety and privacy in the use of unmanned aircraft systems.

Joan Ling, an adjunct professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, was recently named “Woman of the Year” in Los Angeles County’s Third District.

Su Yin Mak, an internationally known music theorist and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has joined the UCLA music department as a visiting scholar.

Dr. Judith Baker, whose work led to the development of the first-ever hemophilia treatment centers in Nevada, Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific, was a featured guest March 13, 2015, at the signing of a proclamation declaring March to be Hemophilia Awareness Month in Guam.

Dr. Reza Ardehali, UCLA assistant professor of cardiology, received the 2015 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology.

Professor Linda Sarna, who holds the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Chair in the UCLA School of Nursing, has been appointed interim dean of the School of Nursing and will continue leading the nursing school through June 30, 2017. 

Michael Jung, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, will receive the 2015 Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

The UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Learning has selected the 2014-2015 Senate faculty recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the highest honors given by the Senate.

UCLA professor of education Robert Teranishi has been nominated by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education.

UCLA education professor Carlos Alberto Torres addressed the diplomatic corps of the United Nations on March 6 organized by UNESCO.

Alex Korb, a postdoctoral researcher at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, has published the book, 'The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time.'

UCLA professor Stephanie Pincetl, an expert in urban sustainability, has been named to the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission.

UCLA pathology professor Robert Schiestl has been named to the America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals for 2015.

UCLA architecture professor Georgina Huljich and her team at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S have won two design awards for Jujuy Redux, a mid-rise apartment building in Rosario, Argentina.

Christopher Tang, professor of decisions, operations and technology management and the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration in the UCLA Anderson School, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Professor Thomas M. Phillip at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies has been awarded the Spencer Foundation’s Midcareer Fellowship.

Kendall Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, has reached a milestone in his distinguished career: his 1,000th research publication.

Five community health projects led by UCLA's Dr. Bowen Chung, Dr. Maria Garcia, Dr. Gilberto Granados, Audra Langley and Dr. Jyoti Puvvula were selected to receive $20,000 each in funding.

Law professor emeritus Gary Blasi has received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for his work in the public interest.