Faculty Bulletin Board

Shaily Mahendra has received a 2018 Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman award from the Government of India Non-Resident Indian Welfare Society.

An interdisciplinary team will produce a database that analyzes text, images, video and audio from different sources of media and identify large-scale patterns within the data.

Dr. Bill Piskorowski, associate dean for community-based clinical education at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was selected as a Fellow by the American College of Dentists.

Elaine Hsiao studies the trillions of microbes the body contains that impact health and disease, and seeks to understand how they influence the brain and behavior.

Dr. Roger Lo, UCLA professor of dermatology, has been awarded $100,000 to conduct research that helps doctors and scientists better understand cancers that affect women.

Dr. Amar Kishan, a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is being honored by the Radiation Oncology Institute.

David Myers, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA, will promote democracy and equal rights as the organization’s president.

Dennis Lettenmaier, distinguished professor of geography, received the Robert E. Horton Medal for his contributions to Earth and space sciences.

Award supports young scientists who will study how to rapidly evaluate and implement changes in information technology and new clinical innovations.

Rebeca Méndez’s exhibit is the 17th installation of the New York museum’s “Select” series, which investigates the interaction of humanity, nature, design and science.

Among other applications, quantum systems hold the promise of new sensitive sensors, with a variety of possible medical, national security and scientific applications.

Roshan Bastani, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, will lead the three-year, $910,000 effort.

Trueblood developed computer programs for determining chemical structures.

The Association of Community Cancer Centers will present UCLA’s Dr. Patricia Ganz with its clinical research award at its national conference in October.

UCLA researchers from medicine, engineering, life sciences, physical sciences and dentistry, are among the recipients of the medical school’s 2018 Seed Grant Program.

The center, which is based in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, includes faculty who work with immigrant communities in California and faculty who collaborate in more than 50 countries.

Chee Wei Wong has received the 2018 NIH trailblazer award for new and early stage investigators.

Amy Richlin received a C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit for her book “Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy.”

Andrew Goldstein, an assistant professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology and urology at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, received the Giants of Science Hope award.

Sudipto Banerjee, professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was honored by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

Elihu Abrahams, UCLA distinguished adjunct professor of physics and astronomy, has been honored by the American Physical Society.

Caroline Beghein joins the agency’s InSight team, which will study of Mars’ crust, mantle and core using seismic data.

UCLA’s Dr. Kenneth Wells, the David Weil Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, is the recipient of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize.

The grant will be used create a program to help train the next generation of scientific leaders to use “big data” to tackle complex societal problems.

Mark Kaplan will serve a four-year term on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.