Faculty + Staff

The recipients of UCLA’s highest honor for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Awards, were honored by the Academic Senate at a ceremony at the Chancellor’s residence on Oct. 11.

As the new director, Lee wants to utilize UCLA’s “tremendous group of scholars” to collaborate and shape the work being done at the center.

Shoup, the distinguished professor of urban planning and internationally renownded guru of parking, received Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

UCLA Luskin professors Laura Wray-Lake and Laura Abrams will lead the study of what youth civic engagement looks like in urban contexts.

A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineering faculty has received research funding as part of a major Army Research Laboratory-funded initiative.

Martin, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been appointed by California Gov. Jerry Brown to the 14-member committee that will advise the governor's office.

Gina Kornfeind is the support and bereavement coordinator for the Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Halfon, founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the academy.

Three researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently been awarded grants from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The grant comes from Shandong Longlive Bio-technology Co., a China-based company that produces functional sugars.

Michael Green, UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, will deliver the 123rd Faculty Research Lecture about a topic that has fascinated him for decades.

“Journalism in Mexico: A Deadly Occupation” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum at UCLA.

Elaine Hsiao, assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, and Hosea Nelson, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, are among 18 winners.

UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández’s Million Dollar Hoods project that maps the costs of incarceration in Los Angeles is now housed at the center.

MarySue Heilemann, associate professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, has focused her scholarship on improving the accuracy of portrayals of nurses in film and television.

Ivanov a world-renowned linguist, Indo-Europeanist, anthropologist and literary scholar was a member of the UCLA community for the past quarter-century.

Open enrollment begins at 8 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 26 and will end at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 21.

The group’s work will pertain only to retiree health benefits and does not affect UC retirement plan pension benefits.

Chong Liu, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry, was selected as one of the exceptional scientists age 40 and younger who are “ready to transform their fields.”

The honor for UCLA professor Carrie Bearden comes from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the nation’s top non-governmental funder of mental health research grants.

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, associate professor of economics, is now on the editorial board of the American Economic Review.

Thomas Graeber has received the American Cancer Society’s Giants of Science Passion Award for his contributions to the study of how cancer cells respond to therapies.

The event raises funds for Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation and the cancer research program at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Carol Bakhos is the principal investigator for “Religious Landscapes of Los Angeles: Teaching and Exploring Religious Diversity Through Civic Engagement.”

Come to the screening of the film “Cidade das Mulheres” on Oct. 11 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., hosted by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.