Faculty Bulletin Board

Wei Wang, the Leonard Kleinrock Professor of Computer Science, has received a $90,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Alexander Spokoyny, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been received a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

The exhibition catalog “La Raza” has been honored with a gold medal in the U.S. History category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Steven Clarke, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been honored with a Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award from Pomona College.

Professor has been honored by her colleagues with the 2020 Senate Service Award.

The center is housed within the The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA.

Aaron Panofskyis among a class of 27 fellows nationwide — 14 from public institutions — to be honored.

Barbara Nelson was recognized for her award-winning 1994 study, “Women and Politics Worldwide,” which she co-edited with with Najma Chowdhury.

John Agnew, distinguished professor of geography and Italian, has received the award from the International Studies Association.

Dr. Peter Tontonoz, professor in the departments of pathology/laboratory medicine and biological chemistry, has been elected in recognition of his achievements in research.

Dr. Antoni Ribas was inducted into the group for his work in immunology and the development of new therapies for malignant melanoma.

Robert Weiss was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of biostatistical analysis in the context of public health.

Amit Sahai was honored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research for his influential research paper on encryption.

Ron Brookmeyer and his colleagues suggest a protocol that could be applied across infectious disease outbreaks and allow for the addition of new team members over time.

Tom Smith, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was honored with the Elliot Coues Award.

Javier Patiño Loira, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and David D. Kim, associate professor of Germanic languages, were named as recipients.

The grant is led by Dr. Vatche Agopian and Hsian-Rong “HR” Tseng.

Maite Zubiaurre has been awarded the 2020 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for her book “Talking Trash. Cultural Uses of Waste.”

Judith Carroll and Julienne Bower of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.

Assisted by UCLA Luskin colleagues, Chad Dunn secured a ruling that will allow more than 16 million registered voters in the state to vote by mail.

Robert Kaplan was honored with the award, which is jointly sponsored by the CDC Foundation and the James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation.

The grant funds the creation of a database of earthquake fault displacements and the development of a predictive model to estimate the displacements.

Google has awarded 2019-2020 Google Faculty Research Awards to four UCLA Samueli School of Engineering faculty.

Shelleen Greene has received the 2020-2021 Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Leeds, in England.

Scott Cummings has been awarded the 2020-21 Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.