Faculty Bulletin Board

Research by UCLA School of Law professor Ingrid Eagly and UCLA Law alumni, Steven Shafer and Jana Whalley, has been cited by federal judge and American Immigration Council.

Henry Friedman has been recognized for his work studying how information is produced and used in firms and capital markets.

Paul Weiss and the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital received the award to research pediatric cancer from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Kelly Lytle Hernández wins the award for “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles.”

Lixia Zhang, Stan Osher, Judea Pearl and Mani Srivastava were received the honor.

Juli Feigon, a distinguished professor of biochemistry, has been recognized for her outstanding research achievements in biophysics.

Steven Nelson was awarded a two-year research fellowship at the museum’s center for advanced study in the visual arts.

UCLA’s Jennifer Silvers received the 2018 Kucharski Young Investigator award from the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.

The program and its founding executive director, Leo Trujillo-Cox, are the 2018 recipients of the ChangeLawyer Award.

The Infectious Disease Society of America recently awarded an Antimicrobial Centers of Excellence designation to UCLA Health for its excellence in patient care.

UCLA professor Gloria Cheng won the award for her short music documentary, “MONTAGE: Great film composers and the piano.”

Shannon Speed, director of UCLA’s American Indian Studies Research Center, has been named president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Computer scientists Jason Cong and Song-Chun Zhu are part of the Center on Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory.

UCLA professor and saxophonist Wayne Shorter will receive the award for lifetime artistic achievement.

The national project will include a center of excellence focused on schizophrenia that is not well-controlled by medications.

UCLA’s Sarah T. Roberts was recently named one of the recipients of the 2018 Pioneer Award for her work on commercial content moderation.

Peter Kazaras will direct a production of Bernstein’s final work for the stage at the Tanglewood Music Festival.

Susan Bookheimer, the Joaquin Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCLA, received the 2018 Glass Brain Award from the Organization of Human Brain Mapping.

David Lefkowitz, professor and of composition and theory in the UCLA Herb Albert School of Music, will have his compositions performed in Russia.

Dr. Alireza Moshaverinia honored by the International Association for Dental Research.

$2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to UCLA team will be used to address under-prescribing of heart medications.

Hung Ton-That, a two-time UCLA alumnus, has joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Dentistry as professor of oral biology.

Asad Madni was named recipient of the 2019 Frederik Philips Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Paula Tavrow of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health was awarded a $25,000 grant from the University of California Global Health Institute.

Neil Garg was recently named a fellow by the society, which works to promote public policies that advance the chemistry enterprise and its practitioners.