Faculty Bulletin Board

Angel investors Scott and Cyan Banister have given $125,000 to support UCLA School of Law’s First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic.

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of environmental health sciences, has been awarded the 2015 International ToxScholar Grant from the Society of Toxicology.

The book 'Immigration Outside the Law,' by UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura, has won the Association of American Publishers 2015 Professional and Scholarly Excellence Award in the Law and Legal Studies category.

Smadar Naoz, assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been selected to receive a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

UCLA sociology professor Judith Seltzer has been appointed to the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations.

Paintings by Silke Otto-Knapp are being showcased in the exhibition 'Land Lies in Water' at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada through July 19.

Dan Goebel and Gabor Temes have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. The award recognizes contributions and innovations to engineering research, practice or education. 

Adam Schoenberg will have his compositions performed internationally this year.

Asad Abidi has been chosen as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2015 by UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Among the 18 collaborative proposals that were selected to receive UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives awards are four UCLA-led projects that will share in more than $23 million over four years, UC announced Monday.

UCLA postdoctoral scholar Aomawa Shields of the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been named to the 2015 class of TED fellows.

UCLA associate professor Marissa López has been named as one of 30 fellows in the New Leaders Project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Dr. Philip Levin has been appointed chief medical officer of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.

UCLA education professor Li Cai has won an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

UCLA researchers Shu-Wei Huang, Christopher Holbrook and Wen Li have been selected to receive 2015 Air Force Young Investigator awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.

“The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism” co-authored by Robert E. Buswell Jr. of UCLA and Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan, has won the prestigious 2015 Dartmouth Medal for outstanding reference work of the American Library Association.

A research paper by Jason Cong, a Chancellor’s Professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, was selected as the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper in the 2015 Asia South-Pacific Design Conference.

Dr. Victor Marder, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in the field of hematology research, died Jan. 29 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

UCLA engineering faculty members Yang Yang and Richard Kaner have been named 2015 fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

Dr. Richard Jackson, a professor of environmental health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Jonathan Furner has assumed the post of chair of information studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Professor Philip Kellman of the UCLA Department of Psychology was invited by the White House to participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C.