Faculty + Staff Archive

Jay Lu won the award, which honors best undergraduate teaching in Winter 2018, for his class on behavioral economics. 

UCLA Law professor E. Tendayi Achiume gave her first address to the UN General Assembly on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Linda Sarna received the 2018 Oncology Nursing Society Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding career contributions.

UCLA staff and faculty can still contribute to the organization’s work to abolish poverty through addressing homelessness, financial instability and lack of education.

Osborne, who is a professor of global economics, management and entrepreneurship, will take the helm effective July 1.

There will be a symposium held at the UCLA Faculty Center featuring alumni who were there.

Devon Carbado has been named the 2018–19 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation.

The faculty winners were Denise Chavira, Chandra Ford, Heather Maynard and Victoria Sork. The staff winner was Erin O’Leary Sanders.

The “Favorite Poem” event features an introduction from Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate who started the wide-ranging initiative two decades ago.

UCLA’s Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw was recognized for her contributions to social justice and equality and position as a role model for women and girls.

Rafail Ostrovsky received the RSA Conference 2018 Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.

The talk will focus on Lebanese politics and draw parallels to developments in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya.

Dr. Judith Currier, has been named chair of the largest clinical trials network focused on HIV.

In addition, Presner, who is a co-principle investigator on UCLA’s urban humanities initiative, has been appointed associate dean of digital innovation.

The Hammer Museum at UCLA is hosting a panel discussion about the future of environmentally friendly transportation in Los Angeles.

Renee Tajima-Peña will receive the Past//Forward Award from Visual Communications, the nation's longest-running Asian Pacific American media arts center.

In this Q&A about “The Book of Why,” UCLA’s Judea Pearl shares how understanding causality plays a vital role in developing artificial intelligence.

He assumes the role after serving as interim vice chancellor since July 2016.

Jeffrey Bennett, winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award, will draw from his book, “A Global Warming Primer,” for his presentation.

UCLA’s Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael has received the 2018 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award for Brain Repair.

UCLA surgeon Dr. Nina Shapiro has published a book that aims to transform its readers into savvier and more empowered consumers and patients.

Richard Kaner won the award, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to solid-state synthesis, energy storage materials and super hard materials.”

Feldman, distinguished professor of neurobiology, and Jamison, professor of Asian languages and cultures, were selected for the honor, which began at UCLA in 1925.

Adnan Darwiche, Yvonne Chen, Jonathan Hopkins and Jia-Ming Liu were winners at the school’s annual awards dinner.

Event, which begins at 4:30 p.m. and will be held in Pauley Pavilion, will feature special guest Maria Shriver.