Faculty Bulletin Board

Ellen Sletten, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded $1 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Weiss, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science and engineering, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow.

Moshe Buchinsky’s work is largely in applied econometrics and labor, developing and estimating structural models using microdata.

McCarthy, associate professor of design media arts at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, is showing her new work at the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai.

Harris, assistant professor of education, has received the Early Career Award for her overall body of work at UCLA.

The Heartline Study clinical trial will test whether heart monitoring features on the Apple Watch, used in combination with an iPhone app, can reduce the risk of stroke.

Dr. Jeremie Calais, assistant professor of nuclear medicine and theranostics in the department of molecular and medical pharmacology, has been named a 2020 Young Investigator.

Dr. Marc Hayashi, health sciences assistant clinical professor, has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Alumni and Friends Presidential Endowed Chair at the UCLA School of Dentistry.

Jia-Ming Liu, associate dean for academic personnel at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named a 2020 Yushan Scholar by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.

Rong Fu, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and Gregory Okin, professor of geography, have been selected as 2020 American Geophysical Union fellows.

Todd Millstein, professor of computer science, recently won distinguished paper awards at three Association for Computing Machinery conferences.

Luke Yarbrough, associate professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, is a runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.

Cho-Jui Hseih, assistant professor of computer science, has received the Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award.

The professor has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for 2021.

Laura Gómez’s “Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism” was one of the 137 nonfiction titles on the list.

Samanvaya Srivastava, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation award.

Kristen Choi and Yuzhang Li have been selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list for healthcare and science, respectively.

The professor is one of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration and mass incarceration.

Samueli, chairman of Broadcom Inc. and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCLA, has received the institute’s Founders Medal.

Mona Jarrahi was one of the five winners of the Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation Grant from the West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics.

Morgan Tingley, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and visiting graduate researcher Austin Spence were awarded the Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology and Evolution.

Eric Scerri, a professor of chemistry, historian and philosopher of science at UCLA, has been ranked as the second most influential academic in the field of chemistry.

Rodney McMillian, artist and professor of sculpture, is exhibiting a new show entitled “Body Politic” at Vielmetter Los Angeles.

Ellen Sletten, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society Young Chemical Biologist Award.

John Thornton Caldwell, a distinguished professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, was honored by the 2020 DOC LA — Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival.