Faculty Bulletin Board

Laura Gómez, interim dean of social sciences and law professor at UCLA, and Stephen Aron, professor and history department chair at UCLA, will host the installation celebration of professor Teofilo Ruiz as the holder of the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History.

UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Wasserman Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is participating in the Third Ethics in Action Meeting at the Vatican today an Friday, May 26.

The Commissioner of Elections, Thomas Schwartz, has certified the results of the election conducted by the Academic Senate to fill the position of Academic Senate Vice Chair/Chair-Elect and various seats on the Committee on Committees.

 Professor John Agnew who has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oulu in Finland.  

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at UCLA for her scholarship in the classics and for her archaeological research. ...

Daniel Solórzano, UCLA Department of Education professor and inaugural director of the newly established UCLA Center for Critical Race Studies, was honored with the inaugural Revolutionary Mentor Award.

IPAM enables mathematicians to work collaboratively with a broad range of scholars of science and technology to positively transform the world through mathematics.

Dr. Jerzy Kupiec-Weglinski has been appointed the inaugural Paul I. Terasaki Chair in Surgery at UCLA. Kupiec-Weglinski is a professor of surgery, pathology and laboratory medicine.

Katherine Stone, the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Distinguished Professor at UCLA School of Law, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labor Law.

In a new book, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs professor emeritus and author Jack Rothman chronicles his journey to find the forgotten village in Ukraine where his family had lived for generations For Rothman, planning a visit to his parents’ ...

Jura’s research spanned a broad range of topics, including planetary systems outside the Earth’s solar system.

UCLA’s Ann Carlson presented the Lloyd Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law last month. Carlson spoke on "Pollution Hot Spots and the Clean Air Act."

Several UCLA Department of Geography faculty were honored at this year's annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers.

UCLA School of Education and Information Studies professor Alison Bailey has been appointed to a new consensus committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Distinguished law professor Eugene Volokh was recently honored with the UCLA School of Law 2017 Alumni of the Year Award for professional achievement.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is preparing for the opening of “Home — So Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas,” co-curated by Chon Noriega, director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center.

Associate professor of French and Francophone studies Lia Brozgal, along with vice chair and professor of history Sarah Stein, recently co-edited a volume of classic Tunisian-French literature published by Stanford University Press.

UCLA professor emerita Judith Smith has been selected to receive the 2016–2017 Carole E. Goldberg Emeriti Service Award, which includes a prize of $1,000.

A team from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs whose project focuses on age-friendly outdoor environments has been awarded an Achievement Award presented by the American Planning Association.

Dr. Jacqueline Casillas, clinical director of UCLA’s Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Program and associate director of the UCLA-LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence, has received the 2017 Unmasque Cancer Caregiver Award.

The award is funded by a gift endowment established by the late Edward A. Dickson, a UC regent from 1913 to 1946, to honor outstanding UCLA emeriti for research, scholarly work, teaching and service.

Stand Up To Cancer has awarded a total of $1 million to four teams of cancer researchers to advance innovation in collaboration.

Robert Hill is among 16 outstanding individuals being awarded honorary degrees from the University of Toronto.

UCLA historian and author Benjamin Madley won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for his  “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873”

Dr. Abbas Ardehali, a professor of surgery and medicine, has been selected as a 2017 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.