Faculty Bulletin Board

Maryanne Wolf, distinguished professor of education, is now part of the of 80 scientists from around the world.

Melissa Spencer, professor of neurology and neuromuscular program director, has received a five-year, grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Arash Amini, assistant professor of statistics in the UCLA College, received the award from the NSF’s division of mathematical sciences.

Judea Pearl has received the Classic AI Paper Award for his paper “Temporal Constraint Networks” along with coauthors Rina Dechter and and Itay Meiri.

Richard Kaner, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor of Materials Innovation, has received the honor.

Lauren Lee McCarthy, associate professor in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, is one of 11 artists chosen for this honor.

Asad Madni was one of only three people elected as an international fellow.

Dr. Keith Vossel said: “Our plan is to grow the center’s expertise in areas of neuroimaging, stem cell biology and precision medicine.”

Ella Haselswerdt, assistant professor of classics, has been honoroed for her article “Sound and Sublime in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: The Limits of Representation.”

The first annual Hawthorne Award was named after boron research pioneer M. Frederick Hawthorne.

Jennifer Steinkamp, Los Angeles-based media and installation artist, will be featured in two exhibitions opening this month.

Tom Bradbury,distinguished professor of clinical psychology, has been awarded the Ernest W. Burgess Award from the National Council on Family Relations.

Dr. Antoni Ribas, director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the award for his work on malignant melanoma.

Sharon Traweek, associate professor of gender studies and history, has received the prestigious Bernal prize.

The five-year, $2.4 million award will help Alice Soragni and Paul Boutros better understand why various treatments fail or succeed.

Magali Delmas, professor in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, was honored by the Academy of Management.

Song Li, professor of bioengineering and bioengineering department chair, received a $149,916 grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Vickie Mays has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Mental Health.

The Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology has received a $50,000 grant from Los Angeles-based PHASE ONE Foundation.

Warren Bicknell Mori, distinguished professor in the departments of physics and astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering, has been honored by American Physical Society.

Lixia Zhang, professor of computer science, has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Ohyun Kwon was awarded the 2020 Herbert Newby McCoy Award for her discovery of a new reaction, the hydrodealkenylation.

Gelare Khoshgozaran گلاره خوشگذران, of design and media arts, has been awarded a Graham Foundation grant for her research project “Inviolable Exteriors.”

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power awarded the contract to the UCLA Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center.

Zhongbo Kang, assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the UCLA College, has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.