Faculty Bulletin Board

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.

The center, funded by a $1.8 million NSF grant, will develop the fundamental chemistry needed to prepare synthetic plastics in a novel way.

Quanquan Gu, UCLA assistant professor of computer science, has been honored by Amazon Web Services.

Ninez Ponce and Michael Rodriguez will investigate risk factors for gun suicide and urban gun violence.

Katy Barkan is a lecturer in the architecture and urban design in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Hsian-Rong “HR” Tseng and Dr. Vatche Agopian of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded the grant from the National Cancer Institute.

Seth Putterman has been selected to receive a $50,000 award from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Felicia Schanche Hodge is a professor in the schools of nursing and public health. She has been named recipient of the Frank C. Dukepoo Award.

Mathieu Bauchy, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received five-year, $500,000 grant.

Lauren Lee McCarthy and collaborators will conduct research on the algorithmic structure of the digital world that surrounds us.