Faculty Bulletin Board

Weiss, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and materials science and engineering, has been elected as one of two new international fellows.

The council of doctors, researchers and other professionals will bolster the program’s ability to serve schools through sharing a current research and accumulated experience.

Dr. Patricia Ganz, of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, assumed the editorial leadership of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on July 1.

Michelle Caswell has been named one of the recipients of the 2017 Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award.

Sean Young’s book, “Stick With It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life — for Good,” uses decades of research to give people effective tools for altering habits.

Ozan Jaquette will use the $70,000 fellowship from the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation to support his research on the off-campus recruitment patterns of public research universities.

Randall Akee is the 2016-17 recipient of the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA.

The professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and chair of the Disability Studies minor assumed the role effective July 1, 2017.

The initiative will be led by the school’s Program on Understanding Law, Science and Evidence, which studies how innovations in science and evidence influence law and policy making.

Dr. Michael Steinberg, director of clinical affairs at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, recognized by the American Society for Radiation Oncology for his lifetime contributions.

Daniel Saavedra, assistant professor of accounting, will receive the 2017 Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association.

A selection of works about “games” by UCLA professor of design media arts Eddo Stern is the subject of a new limited edition book. Stern, who is the director of the UCLA Game Lab, and teaches courses on game design and culture; computer game ...

Seven faculty members were honored with the school’s annual awards.

Julia Heck will receive $200,000 over two years from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to support research on early detection and prevention.

Diane Favro is UCLA’s first faculty member to receive the honor, which was established in 1965.

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group awarded UCLA’s Steve Horvath an Allen Distinguished Investigator award.

Christopher Russell, a professor in UCLA’s Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences and principal investigator for the Dawn Mission, was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Professor Min Zhou, director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center and the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications, has been selected to receive the 2017 Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Section on International Migration.

The institute awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies to UCLA's Yasemin Yildiz.

UCLA computer science professors Sriram Sankararaman and Ameet Talwalkar have received a $718,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Audrey Pool O’Neal, a lecturer in mechanical and aerospace engineering and former senior manager with General Motors, has been named director of the Women in Engineering program.

The 2017 fellowship will enable associate professor Nouri Gana to explore cross-cultural literary and cultural production.

The initiative will focus on two areas of research: understanding science at the nanoscale through advances in imaging and sensing technology, and secondly, the development of micro-scale microfluidic engineering and device design.

The Kuiper Prize is the highest award bestowed by the American Astronomical Society to a planetary scientist.

Dean Sarna and her collaborator Stella Aguinaga Bialous are commended for designing Tobacco Free Nurses, an initiative to improve the health of those in the nursing profession.