Faculty Bulletin Board

Michael Stenstrom distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering received the Camp Applied Research Award.

UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish honored author and educator Rabbi Elliot Dorff with the organization’s inaugural Leve Award.

Kimberlé Crenshaw has been named the winner of the 2016–17 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University.

As the new director, Lee wants to utilize UCLA’s “tremendous group of scholars” to collaborate and shape the work being done at the center.

Shoup, the distinguished professor of urban planning and internationally renownded guru of parking, received Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

UCLA Luskin professors Laura Wray-Lake and Laura Abrams will lead the study of what youth civic engagement looks like in urban contexts.

A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineering faculty has received research funding as part of a major Army Research Laboratory-funded initiative.

Martin, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been appointed by California Gov. Jerry Brown to the 14-member committee that will advise the governor's office.

Halfon, founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the academy.

Three researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently been awarded grants from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The grant comes from Shandong Longlive Bio-technology Co., a China-based company that produces functional sugars.

MarySue Heilemann, associate professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, has focused her scholarship on improving the accuracy of portrayals of nurses in film and television.

Chong Liu, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry, was selected as one of the exceptional scientists age 40 and younger who are “ready to transform their fields.”

The honor for UCLA professor Carrie Bearden comes from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the nation’s top non-governmental funder of mental health research grants.

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, associate professor of economics, is now on the editorial board of the American Economic Review.

Carol Bakhos is the principal investigator for “Religious Landscapes of Los Angeles: Teaching and Exploring Religious Diversity Through Civic Engagement.”

William Zame, distinguished professor of economics, honored for his “contributions to game theory.”

Sergei Tochitsky, research engineer in the UCLA Plasma Accelerator Group, has been elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Juliet Williams and Abigail Saguy have received a three-year, $325,000 award from the Law and Social Science and Sociology programs of the National Science Foundation.

Giovanni Zocchi received the prize for inventing a nanotechnology measuring method called “nano-rheology,” which can measure enzyme deformations smaller than an atom.

UCLA is one of 11 national centers, and the first in Los Angeles, to earn the inaugural designation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association.

Dr. Linda Liau is only the second woman to chair an academic department of neurosurgery in the United States.

Dr. Steven Jonas’ awards from Hyundai Hope on Wheels Foundation and Alex’s Lemonade Stand support his work to harness cellular immunotherapies.

Gail Kligman, associate vice provost of the UCLA International Institute, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

James Stigler, a professor of developmental and cognitive psychology at UCLA, has been named the first Fellow of the Precision Institute at National University.