Faculty Bulletin Board

Dr. Lee Todd Miller is the new Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the David Geffen School of Medicine. Miller is a professor of clinical pediatrics and vice chair for education in the department of pediatrics. He is also a member of the medical ...

Professor Barbara Drucker has been named the inaugural associate dean of Community Engagement and Arts Education in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Shane Que Hee, professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has received the Volunteer Group Service Award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television made The Hollywood Reporter’s 'Top Film Schools' issue, taking the No. 3 spot — up from No. 4 last year — of 25 American schools on the list.

Professor Donald Morisky in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Sophie Deng, a corneal specialist and associate professor of ophthalmology at UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, been awarded a $700,000 grant by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.

Dr. Tomas Ganz, UCLA professor of medicine and pathology, will be honored by the American Society of Hematology with the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture for his groundbreaking research in iron homeostasis, including the discovery of the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin.

Steven Nelson, UCLA associate professor of art history, will be in residence at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for the 2014-15 academic year as the distinguished Cohen Fellow in Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute.

UCLA professor of art history Lothar von Falkenhausen has been appointed honorary professor at Zhejiang University in China.

Dr. Ashley Busutti will be assuming the newly created role of medical director of Clinical Operations, UCLA Health.

Snehendu B. Kar, professor emeritus of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair award by the U.S.-India Educational Foundation.

Todd Presner, chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and professor of Germanic languages, comparative literature and Jewish Studies, has published the book, “HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities” with Harvard University Press.

David Roussève is the new associate dean for Academic Affairs in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Steven P. Wallace, professor and chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2013 Betty and James E. Birren Senior Scholar Award.

Ka-Yuet Liu, assistant professor of sociology at UCLA, was named as a 2014-2015 Hellman Fellow for her research on California vaccine requirements

UCLA professor emerita Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei will be honored by the Association for Asian Performance accomplishments that include her role as a 'founding mother' of Asian theater scholarship.

Dino Di Carlo, associate professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is the recipient of the 2014 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award from Analytical Chemistry and the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.

Asad Madni, distinguished adjunct professor of engineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received the first honorary professorship ever given by the Technical University of Crete.

Allison Carruth, associate professor of English and affiliate of UCLA's Institute of Environment & Sustainability, has been awarded a $185,000 grant from ArtPlace America to support "Play the LA River."

Professor Sabeeha Merchant has been appointed director of the UCLA-Department of Energy (UCLA-DOE) Institute, which carries out research in bioenergy, structural biology, genomics and proteomics, consistent with the research mission of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Professor Richard Roll, Distinguished Professor of Finance and the Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Ph.D. Students.

Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, presented a plenary lecture titled, “Global Citizenship Education: Hyper Globalist, Skeptic and Transformationist Agendas,” at the 2014 conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education

Dr. Gary Small received the Arthur Cherkin Award for excellence in medical care, aging research and training doctors in geriatrics.

Professor Ninez Ponce in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been named director of the school's Center for Global and Immigrant Health.

Alumni James D.C. Barrall and his wife created the position in honor of his parents, Raymond C. and Shirley C. Barrall.