Faculty Bulletin Board

Judea Pearl will receive the society’s 2018 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling.

Dr. Alireza Moshaverinia was awarded nealry $200,00 in research funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Kenneth Hudnut will receive the 2017 Ivan I. Mueller Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership at the annual American Geophysical Union.

Jennifer Steinkamp’s “Winter Fountains” feature animations of nature, ethereal rocks and lightning and will line the Benjamin Franklin Parkway beginning Nov. 30.

Nanthia Suthana was awarded a $3.3 million, three-year grant funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Gregg Fonarow was honored with the 2017 Chairman’s Award saluting excellence in volunteer service.

Aslı Bâli was recognized for her work challenging the travel ban of the current presidential administration and for her work protecting academic freedom.

Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams and Lauren McCarthy, who are part of the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio, will have work showcased at ‘Day for Night’ in Texas.

Catherine Opie has received the Sustained Achievement award at the inaugural Queer/Art/Prize ceremony, which took place Nov. 2 at Hudson Mercantile.

Kevin Daly, Mohamed Sharif, Todd Lynch and Georgina Huljich were recently named winners of the institute’s Design Awards.

Sprüth Magers, an international gallery dedicated to exhibiting modern and contemporary art in Berlin, is featuring “FOREVER,” a solo exhibition by Barbara Kruger.

Professors Puneet Gupta Lara Dolecek along with their students won the award at CASES Conference in Embedded Systems Week.

UCLA professor Devon Carbado has been selected for the first group of people seeking to overcome racism and white supremacy in the United States and South Africa.

Don Blasius, Mason Porter and Joseph Teran have been recognized for outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition and advancement of mathematics.

The council has selected Dr. Vishad Nabili as the recipient of the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award for 2018.

The $3.5 million in funding will allow researchers to test various incentives to promote caregiver behaviors that prevent tooth decay in young children.

Economics professor Adriana Lleras-Muney has been elected to the executive committee of the American Economic Association.

UCLA cancer researcher Dr. Steven Dubinett will co-lead a $5 million collaborative grant from Stand Up to Cancer.

The UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program has received The SCAN Foundation’s first Innovation in Health Care Award.

Till von Wachter will work with the director for research and civic engagement to find opportunities for enhancing the division’s research infrastructure.

Dr. John Clemens, accepted the prestigious prize on behalf of icddr,b, a Bangladesh-based public health research institution of which he is executive director.

Aradhna Tripati is being recognized as someone who has made contributions to research in the geological sciences and has helped open the geoscience field to other minorities.

The work of Casey Reas, UCLA design and media arts professor, is on display at the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine.

Shaily Mahendra, a UCLA associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2017 Paul L. Busch Award.

Connie Kasari, UCLA professor of education and psychiatry and a founding member of the Center for Autism Research and Treatment, received the Acceleration Award.