Faculty + Staff Archive

Sriram Sankararaman, an assistant professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Sociologist Victor Agadjanian has worked as a Portuguese-Russian interpreter for Soviet medical missions in Africa and even underwent yearlong training as a witch doctor in Mozambique.

Adam Moore has received the 2019 Global Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography for “Empire’s Labor: The Global Army that Supports U.S Wars.”

The closures are following the campus decision to follow “Safer at Home” orders.

Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, has received the grant from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

The five-year project will be led by UCLA professors Kyung Sung and Holden Wu.

This decision was made in accordance with the best guidance from public health officials about how to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Anne Rimoin and Gilbert Gee, both of the Fielding School of Public Health, addressed the commission, which advises and makes recommendations to the Los Angeles City Council.

The information session is at capacity for in-person attendance but will be available to watch online.

Artem Chernikov has been selected for his project titled, “Model theory, groups and hypergraph combinatorics.”

Walter Allen is the Allan Murray Cartter professor of higher education in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Miguel García-Garibay, who is also professor of organic chemistry, studies the interaction of light and molecules in crystals.

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering annually recognizes alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields.

“Intertextuality: Performance/Subjectivity in Experimental Shorts,” a screening of short films, will be held on Wednesday, Mar. 11, at 7:30 at the Hammer Museum.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam will deliver the F.E.L. Priestley Lectures and 2020 Annual Rubinstein Lecture.  

Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, is one of the leaders of the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence

The “Feminist Bibliographies” conference will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. in the main conference room in the Charles E. Young Research Library.

Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch have been surveying Americans to discover what drives voters.

Ellen DuBois’ “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote” is timed to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment

Dov Waxman says the the center should be known for world-class scholarship on Israel, and also known for its ability to bring different sides together.

Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar has been named the next editor-in-chief of JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.

Keriann Backus has been named to the Alexander and Renee Kolin Endowed Professorship of Molecular Biology and Biophysics Term Chair for five years.

Dr. Alan Felsenfeld, professor emeritus of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the UCLA School of Dentistry, will be responsible for helping make decisions regarding public health.

The music school will host the celebration of Jewish music and culture in in the Schoenberg Music Building.

Cristina Puig-Saus will research how T-cells respond to mutations in tumors after immune checkpoint blockade treatment.