Faculty Bulletin Board

Steven Christensen is an architect and lecturer at UCLA.

The award is given to early-career faculty with the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.

"The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts" is an exhibition curated by world arts and cultures/dance professor Polly Nooter Roberts.

UCLA’s Lionel Popkin has choreographed a new work, "Inflatable Trio." His dance is set to be performed from Feb. 23-25 at 8 p.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam was honored by the Université catholique de Louvian in Belgium.

The Association for Asian American Studies recently honored Grace Hong and Min Zhou for their publications.

On behalf of the National Science Foundation, Andrea Bertozzi will be one of the NSF-funded scientists who will be featured for making an impact on the real work with her discoveries.

UCLA chemistry professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2017 Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Richard Strassberg’s 2016 book, “Thirty Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints,” translates the Kangxi emperor’s “Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat,” written to commemorate the emperor's new summer palace.

A piano professor in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Inna Faliks has been named to Stony Brook University’s list of outstanding alumni 40 years of age or younger.

Social welfare research professor Yeheskel “Zeke” Hasenfeld and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs alumna Eve Garrow have been named winners of the Social Service Review’s 2017 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize.

UCLA architecture professor Greg Lynn, renown for his visionary designs, is one of the principles behind a new robotic product that is being launched this month by Piaggio Fast Forward.

UCLA's Priyanga Amarasekare, professor of  ecology and evolutionary biology, does research that focuses on how the interplay between abiotic environmental variation and biotic interactions influences ecological and evolutionary dynamics.

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at UCLA, has received an R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

UCLA professor Daniel Blumstein has been named this year’s recipient of the Animal Behavior Society’s Quest Award, given to recognize outstanding seminal contributions to the science of animal behavior.

Leon Katz, 97, died Jan. 23 at his home in Encino from complications due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  

The association's rising star designation is presented to outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research careers.

The Cornell Tech campus, part of which has been designed by UCLA architecture professor Thom Mayne of the firm Morphosis, has been named one of Business Insider’s top seven mega-projects that will transform New York City.

Xinshu (Grace) Xiao, UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology, is among 33 outstanding scientists nationwide to be awarded a grant to expand the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded Andrea Fraser, professor of art at UCLA, a $40,000 unrestricted grant, one of four given to visual artists.

The "global village" of open communication that the Internet was supposed to have formed hasn't materialized, says Ramesh Srinivasan in a new book.

The medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts is the most distinguished awarded in the field.

Veronica Santos, UCLA associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a $719,000 grant from the Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research.

Dr. Joel Braslow and Philippe Bourgois of the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities at UCLA’s Semel Institute have won a three-year, $1 million grant from the L.A. County Department of Mental Health to study how the county deploys urgent psychiatric care.

Recipients are recognized for distinguished scholarly contributions across long and productive careers.