Faculty Bulletin Board

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, will chair “Demographic Shifts and Impacts on Education,” at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Education.

Patti Taylor was honored by the UCLA School of Nursing with a student scholarship and award in her name.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center was awarded a $154,960 grant from the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service. The grant was awarded as a part of the department’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program, ...

Dr. Saleh Salehmoghaddam died on Sept. 11, in Los Angeles. He was 66. For more than 30 years, he served as an exceptionally devoted physician and teacher.

Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named to Politico magazine's "Politico 50" list of "thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction."

In August, four researchers formed Team UCLA to take part in Charity Treks, a weeklong bike ride to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research at the UCLA AIDS Institute and the Emory Vaccine Research Center.

“Whiteness as Property,” a seminal article by Cheryl Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law, will be the focus of a Critical Race Studies Symposium at UCLA Law, Oct. 2-4.

A team of UCLA researchers has received a $2-million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to explore nanoscale 2DL materials that have breakthrough potential in electronics, optoelectronics, bioelectronics and energy conversion and storage.

For the sixth year in a row, the UCLA School of Law has been named one of the Top 10 Best Law Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine.

Stacy J. Park, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a two-year, $80,000 grant by the Prevent Cancer Foundation to study the role e-cigarettes might play in the development of lung cancer.

Urban planning professor's articles were among the most cited and acknowledged by peers.

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an ultra-compact X-ray free electron laser.

Photographer Catherine Opie and ethnomusicologist Daniel Neuman made the Art Career Project's list of “15 Noteworthy Art Professors in Los Angeles.”

Susan Dietz, five-time Tony nominee and producer of such Broadway hits as “Fela!,” “The Little Dog Laughed” and “Mothers and Sons,” will be coming to UCLA in February to teach an immersive five-week course on the fundamentals of producing on- and off-Broadway shows.

Dr. Peter Lawrence was recently named president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Joyce Appleby's “Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination” is in the running to win the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.

James C. Liao, UCLA's Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemical Engineering, has been named to Taiwan's Academia Sinica, the preeminent academic institution in the Republic of China.

Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected to receive the 2014 Booker Fellowship.

Eli Yablonovitch, adjunct professor of electrical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected to receive the 2014 Rank Prize.

Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science in UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, received the SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award.

Professor Diana Huffaker has been selected by IEEE as a Distinguished Lecturer for year 2015 in the area of photonic devices. As a Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Huffaker will help lead the Photonics Society in technical developments that will shape ...

UCLA geographer Yongkang Xue is heading a team of researchers who have received a four-year, $2.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to look at forces driving climate change in East Asia over the next 30 years.

Christopher Tang, Distinguished Professor in Decisions, Operations and Technology Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, has been named editor-in-chief of 'Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.'

Dr. Kathryn Atchison, professor of dentistry and vice provost for new collaborative initiatives at UCLA, has been tapped to join the Office of the Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) in the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Rick Harrison, UCLA professor of clinical pediatrics and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, has been appointed interim Chief Medical Officer for Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.