Faculty Bulletin Board

The award honors emeriti professors for scholarly work or educational service performed, since retirement, in the fields of humanities or social sciences.

Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, was elected for his seminal contributions to causal inference in statistics and contributions to artificial intelligence.

Heather Maynard, professor of organic chemistry, received the Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award for her contributions in interfacing synthetic and biological systems.

Sarah Tolbert received the 2019 Community Service and Praxis Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award.

Sam Emaminejad, whose research focuses on how wearable technologies could improve health, has received a CAREER award.

Sudipto Banerjee, professor of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2019 George W. Snedecor Award.

The funds will support a phase 1 clinical trial of a treatment for advanced sarcomas and other cancers.

Lynn Doering has been named the Audrienne H. Moseley Endowed Chair of Nursing at UCLA.

Jorge Torres received the Student Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award from the UCLA Academic Senate.

Jason Cong received the Google Faculty Research Award, which honors faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.

Patricia Greenfield has been awarded the Ernst E. Boesch Prize, which is named after the pioneer of cultural psychology.

Alexander Spokoyny, a UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Antoni Ribas was selected by Agilent Technologies for their Thought Leader Award.

Yahya Rahmat-Samii, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, will receive the honor from the Ellis Island Honors Society.

Dr. Gregg Fonarow was honored with the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association’s Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research.

Shu-Mei Shih is professor of comparative literature, Asian languages and cultures, and Asian American studies at UCLA.

An international team led by UCLA’s Shimon Weiss has been awarded a $1.2 million Human Frontier Science Program research grant.

Kelly Lytle Hernández is one of the nation’s leading historians of race, policing, immigration and incarceration in the United States.

Amit Sahai was cited for his fundamental contributions, including to secure computation, zero knowledge and functional encryption, and for service to the association.

Sudhakar Pamarti, Puneet Gupta and Kang Wang are working on system that can process massive amounts of data at speeds much faster than currently possible.

Catherine Clarke, professor of biochemistry in the UCLA College, was awarded a research grant from the Barth Syndrome Foundation.

Jennifer Jay, professor of environmental engineering, is being honored for innovative teaching that incorporates service learning.

Jeffrey Inaba, Neil Denari, Claus Benjamin Freyinger and Jimenez Lai were recognized in Architect’s Newspaper’s top 50 interior architects list.

Michael Jung, UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been honored by the American Association for Cancer Research.

Dr. Antoni Ribas, professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, will assume the presidency in 2020.