Faculty Bulletin Board

Lauren McCarthy, UCLA assistant professor of design media arts, has been awarded a STRP ACT award for the creation of a new work called Waking Agents.

Paul Weiss, UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been honored in recognition of his groundbreaking research.

Jane Shen-Miller, a senior scientist with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, has been awarded life membership in the society.

Yizhou Sun, UCLA associate professor of computer science, has been honored for her research on the enhancement of knowledge quality.

Dr. Rinaldo Canalis was honored for his post-retirement service to the university and will receive the award at the UCLA Emeriti Association dinner.

Engineers and medical professionals together won an award from the UCLA innovation fund for their work in advancing efforts to image structures of the eye using lasers.

Jason Cong was honored by the Association for Computing Machiner/Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

The award honors outstanding research, scholarly work, teaching and service performed by an emeritus or emerita professor since retirement.

Jennifer Silvers received the 2019 Biennial Early Career Research Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.

Danijela Cabric, professor of electrical engineering in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, recently shared the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference.

Peter Narins has been selected as the 2019 Association for Research in Otolaryngology Award of Merit Winner.

Elezar Eskin has been named one of four 2019 International Society for Computational Biology Fellows.

Neil Garg was recognized for his exceptional personal and professional achievements and contributions to society.

Michael Jung, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College, received the LA BioStar Award.

Green, a prolific author whose research has focused on on Muslims in Asia, Africa and Europe, has been named UCLA’s first Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History.

The 2018–19 Unit 18 honorees were selected by the UCLA Academic Personnel Office.

The annual listing is published by the advocacy and support group Autism Speaks.

Dr. Fola May was selected as a 2019–2020 scholar by the association. The inaugural class of scholars includes 10 promising underrepresented minority physician-scientists.

Willy Hugo, assistant adjunct professor of dermatology at UCLA, has been awarded the Daneen & Charles Stiefel Investigative Scientist Award.

Kevin Daly received the Progressive Architecture Award for his design firm’s work on the Little Berkeley Affordable Housing Project.

Dr. Linda Rosenstock will receive the Welch-Rose Award for Distinguished Service to Academic Public Health from the Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health.

Dr. Roger Lo, professor of dermatology at UCLA and a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the V Foundation.

Thomas Wake, assistant adjunct professor of archaeology at UCLA, will continue research with students, researchers and colleagues of the institution in Panama.

The grants will go to interdisciplinary projects done in partnership with a community organization or system working to support children and families in Los Angeles.

Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA professor of French and Francophone studies, will deliver a keynote lecture at the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study program.