Faculty Bulletin Board

Karida Brown, assistant professor of sociology, and Robert Dallek, professor emeritus of history, have been named to the project’s advisory board.

Joanna Schwartz was cited by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her opinion on the Nieves v. Bartlett case.

Dr. Elizabeth Barnert, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UCLA, has received an Outstanding New Member Science Award from the society.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers named an award after Asad Madni to honor his accomplishments and leadership.

M. Norton Wise, distinguished research professor emeritus of history in the UCLA College, received the Sarton Medal for his lifetime achievements.

Achuta Kadambi received the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative award from the National Science Foundation.

Sharon Gerstel was appointed inaugural director of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.

BruinX is the multidisciplinary research and development unit within UCLA’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Dr. J. Paul Finn, professor of radiological sciences at UCLA, was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Vickie Mays has been named a featured psychologist by the association.

Dr. Beth Karlan, director of cancer populations at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been inducted into the 2019 class of Giants of Cancer Care by OncLive.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco’s lecture examined the causes behind mass migration such as unchecked climate change, environmental degradation, war and terror.

Jason Cong received the 2019 achievement award from the association.

UCLA’s Yizhou Sun received the grant to continue her research on neural operators, online social networks and biomedical networks.

Dr. Christopher Saigal has been elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in recognition of his accomplishments in the field.

Mason Porter has been selected by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics to join its 2019 class of SIAM fellows.

Dr. Joann Elmore has been awarded a $375,000 Established Investigator Award from the Melanoma Research Alliance.

The Association of Art Museum Curators have honored Tom Joyce, Marla Berns and Allen Roberts with awards for excellence.

Yang Yang, UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, was named recipient of the 2019 recipient of its Sustainable Energy Award.

The recipients are Andrea Goldman, Ippolytos Kalofonos, and Joshua Dienstag.

Paul Weiss, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, received the 2019 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Three faculty were elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and one professor was elected to the Association of American Physicians.

Robert Gurval received the Eugen Weber Honors Collegium Faculty Award for teaching in the Honors Collegium at UCLA.

A team of UCLA-led researchers has received support from the National Institutes of Health to develop strategies for smoking cessation among high-risk, hospitalized patients.

UCLA’s Marissa López was named as a recipient of an American Council of Learned Society/Mellon Scholars & Society fellowship.