Faculty Bulletin Board

Bahram Jalali has been named the recipient of the 2018 Pioneer in Technology Award from the Brain Mapping Foundation and Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics.

Willy Hugo was honored by the American Association of Cancer Research.

Matthias Aschenbrenner was recognized with the Association for Symbolic Logic’s ninth Carol Karp Prize along with two other mathematicians.

Jay Lu won the award, which honors best undergraduate teaching in Winter 2018, for his class on behavioral economics. 

UCLA Law professor E. Tendayi Achiume gave her first address to the UN General Assembly on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Linda Sarna received the 2018 Oncology Nursing Society Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding career contributions.

Devon Carbado has been named the 2018–19 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation.

The faculty winners were Denise Chavira, Chandra Ford, Heather Maynard and Victoria Sork. The staff winner was Erin O’Leary Sanders.

UCLA’s Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw was recognized for her contributions to social justice and equality and position as a role model for women and girls.

Rafail Ostrovsky received the RSA Conference 2018 Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.

Dr. Judith Currier, has been named chair of the largest clinical trials network focused on HIV.

In addition, Presner, who is a co-principle investigator on UCLA’s urban humanities initiative, has been appointed associate dean of digital innovation.

Renee Tajima-Peña will receive the Past//Forward Award from Visual Communications, the nation's longest-running Asian Pacific American media arts center.

He assumes the role after serving as interim vice chancellor since July 2016.

UCLA’s Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael has received the 2018 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award for Brain Repair.

UCLA surgeon Dr. Nina Shapiro has published a book that aims to transform its readers into savvier and more empowered consumers and patients.

Richard Kaner won the award, which recognizes “outstanding contributions to solid-state synthesis, energy storage materials and super hard materials.”

Feldman, distinguished professor of neurobiology, and Jamison, professor of Asian languages and cultures, were selected for the honor, which began at UCLA in 1925.

Adnan Darwiche, Yvonne Chen, Jonathan Hopkins and Jia-Ming Liu were winners at the school’s annual awards dinner.

Erin Besler was selected for her proposal to study the problematic nature of corner conditions in architecture.

American Skin Association selected Dr. Roger Lo for the Abby S. and Howard P. Milstein Innovation Award for Melanoma/Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Research.

Kang Wang, Raytheon Company Professor of Electrical Engineering, has received the 2018 Magnetism Award and Néel Medal for his discovery of chiral Majorana fermions.

Dr. Daniela Silva was chosen based on her leadership, achievements and involvement in the dental profession and community.

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, assistant professor of community health sciences at UCLA, received the Early Achievement Award from the Population Association of America.

Six UCLA professors have been elected to the 2018 class of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.