Faculty Bulletin Board

Julia Koerner, a lecturer in the department of architecture and urban design, received the Rising Star Award at the Global 3d Printing Awards, given by the 3d Print Show London 2014.

Professor Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, is being recognized for excellence in community service by MALDEF, the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization.

UCLA professor Barbara Kruger of the department of art has been selected by the J. Paul Getty Museum to work with hundreds of students from LAUSD Title I high schools on a collaborative project titled, “Whose Values?”

UCLA professor Peter Narins has been elected president of the International Society for Neuroethology. Narins is a distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, as well as ecology and evolutionary.

UCLA professor of history Janice Reiff, immediate past chair of UCLA's Academic Senate, will serve as the 2014-15 senate–administration liaison for online education.

Kathleen McGarry, professor and chair of UCLA's department of economics, has been named a 2014-15 visiting scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's oldest and most recognized academic honor society.

The National Science Foundation has funded UCLA research astronomer R. Michael Rich and an international team to use the world’s largest camera to map the central bulge of the Milky Way.

UCLA professor emeritus of music Roger Bourland, a renowned composer and musician, will premiere his grand opera,  “La Paloma y el Ruiseñor,” at the Teatro Angela Peralta in Mazatlán, Mexico, on Nov. 14.

'A Mathematical Theory of Communication,' a large-scale, computer-generated installation by Casey Reas, professor of Design Media Arts, is now on permanent display in the University of Texas.

The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities has received a $900,000 award to establish a national Health Care Transitions Research Network for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

UCLA's Confucius Institute will present the second China Oncreen Biennial from Oct. 17 to Nov. 14 at the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Billy Wilder Theater and other L.A. venues.

The $2.3 million National Institutes of Health awards go to scientists from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA for work in stem cells and neuroscience in medicine.

The UCLA Anderson School of Management has received a $1.5 million gift to establish the Donnalisa and William M. Barnum, Jr. Endowed Term Chair in Management.

UCLA engineering professors Mani Srivastava and Tyson Condie of are part of a new NIH Center of Excellence to enable the use of big data computing in the biomedical sciences to advance human health.

Professor Kirk Stark has been named the endowed chair for the Barrall Family Professor of Tax Law and Policy.

Professor of medicine Betty Tsao, on faculty in the division of rheumatology and arthritis at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and a member of the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center, received a research grant from the Lupus Foundation of America.

Associate professor of electrical engineering Mona Jarrahi was a keynote speaker at the 14th International Conference on Nanotechnology held in Toronto, Canada in August 18-21. This is one of the largest nanotechnology conferences in the world.

Aaron Panofsky, associate professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named the 2014-15 Kenneth L. Sokoloff Fellow at the UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy.

Three faculty from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health who conduct HIV/AIDS prevention projects will receive grants from the Fogarty International Center, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

UCLA professor Rebecca Allen, an internationally recognized artist, research scientist and pioneer in 3D computer graphics, has been named chair of the Department of Design Media Arts.

Patricia Turner, vice provost for undergraduate education, will assume responsibility for Summer Sessions and International Education Office, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced recently.

SELFA Inc., a health care technology company cofounded and based on research by Chi On Chui, UCLA associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, won a $1.65 million grant from the NIH.

Lesley Leighton has been appointed director of the UCLA Chorale and UCLA Chamber Singers in the Department of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Acclaimed artist Barbara Kruger, a professor of art at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, will be honored at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2014 Art+Film Gala on Nov. 1.

Dr. Daniel Siegel, a UCLA clinical professor of psychiatry, has published a new book, 'No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind.'