Faculty Bulletin Board

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.

Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a two-year grant for $1 million from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The paper comes from the UCLA Voting Rights Project, which is an advocacy project of the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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

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.”

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