Faculty Bulletin Board

Mark Peterson, UCLA professor of public policy, political science and law, will become chair of the Public Policy Department at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs on July 1, 2014.

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected the 2014 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award. They join a very select group of UCLA’s finest teachers.

Two UCLA emeriti professors, pediatric surgeon Dr. Eric Fonkalsrud and Howard Suber of the School of Theater, Film and Television, have been selected to receive the 2014 Dickson Award, one of the highest awards given to emeriti faculty at UCLA.

Eight UCLA faculty members are among the newest class elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.

UCLA social scientists Miriam A. Golden and Robin D.G. Kelley are among an esteemed group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Deborah Nadoolman Landis, a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has received the Costume Designer/Technologist Award from the Costume Society of America.

Sarah Haley, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for 2014-15.

Elizabeth Thomas, professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, was elected as Fellow in the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.

Dean Judy Olian of the UCLA Anderson School of Management joined other leaders of top business schools for a meeting with White House senior advisers on April 16 to discuss best practices for the 21st-century workplace.

With two deans and six additional faculty members elected, UCLA is home to more 2014 fellows than any other public university in the country.

UCLA political scientist Miriam A. Golden and UCLA historian Robin D.G. Kelley will use their 2014 fellowships to complete book projects.

Dr. Owen Witte, director of UCLA's Broad Stem Cell Research Center and a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, has been inducted into the American Association for Cancer Research.

The efforts of Christine Littleton, UCLA vice provost of diversity and faculty development and professor of law and gender studies, and Susan Drange Lee, director of diversity and faculty development, are highlighted in a new book from the Association for Women in Science.

Behzad Razavi, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, has received the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education PSW Outstanding Teaching Award.

Tatsuo Itoh, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his exceptional accomplishments in innovation and invention for the benefit of society.

UCLA life scientist Kirk Lohmueller is among 15 exceptional scientists nationwide to be selected as 2014 Searle Scholar.

A team of community leaders and researchers from UCLA and RAND led by principal investigator Dr. Kenneth Wells has received the 2014 Joint Team Science Award for a 10-year project to improve depression care.

UCLA Professor Brenda Stevenson's "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the Los Angeles Riots" has been named the best book on race relations published in 2013.

Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, has published a new book, "The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850."  

UCLA professor Edward Alpers' new book, "The Indian Ocean in World History," explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA professor of law, has been honored with the 2014 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

UCLA associate professor Katsuya Hirano's new book, "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan," explores the evolution of Japan's radical transformation.

UCLA animation professor Chuck Sheetz recently directed an episode of "The Simpsons," which aired on Fox on March 16.

Tony Chan, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics and president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Ira Kurtz, a UCLA professor of medicine, has received a $3 million gift from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation to fund research on the structural properties of key proteins in the kidney that affect its function in health and disease.