Faculty Bulletin Board

Dr. Jeffrey Saver, director of the UCLA Comprehensive Stroke since its inception in 1995, has been awarded the American Neurological Association’s 2015 Soriano Leadership Award.

The Blanche F. Ittleson Award recognizes outstanding published research in child and adolescent psychiatry.

The Sept. 22 symposium brought together 175 scientists from UCLA and beyond.

Dan and Rae Emmett matching gift brings total to $1 million.

Participants in this month's 13th annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer helped raise $600,000 for a UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center program to assist low-income or uninsured women with or at risk for the disease.

The University of Texas Press has published a new book by Stella Nair, UCLA professor of art history and member of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA: "At Home with the Sapa Inca: Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero."

Brian Kite, former producing artistic director of the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, is the new chair of the Department of Theater.

Investigating how the mammalian olfactory sense can swiftly discriminate between thousands of odors.

The UCLA Law professor has published more than 50 law journal articles in a variety of fields.

The gift will provide up to $6,500 a year for research in the population sciences.

The beliefs and practices of magic were part of philosophy and science for centuries.

Ornitz was a pioneer in establishing the brain-based nature of autism.

UCLA researchers have won a $1 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop lightweight, portable and cost-effective imaging devices that can quantify and characterize nano-size objects.

Leon Letwin, a UCLA law professor and social justice activist who defended the rights of Angela Davis, among others, and advocated to increase enrollment of blacks and Latinos in Los Angeles-area law schools, died July 13 in State College, Pennsylvania.

Robert A. and Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, UCLA professors of psychology, have been jointly selected to receive the Association for Psychological Science’s 2016 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, the association’s highest honor.

J. David Neelin, UCLA professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Hyundai Hope On Wheels and Los Angeles area Hyundai dealers awarded Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA a $250,000 Hyundai Scholar Grant for pediatric cancer research.

Lynn is an innovator in using digital technology to redefine architectural design and fabrication.

The legendary jazz guitarist is recognized as an international ambassador for the art form.

Bescher a leader in developing new, longer-lasting concrete materials for construction projects

He develops miniaturized systems for use in basic biology, medical diagnostics, material fabrication and cellular engineering

Peggy Fong, UCLA professor and vice chair of the ecology and evolutionary biology department, has won the William A. Niering Outstanding Educator Award from the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation.

The Okawa Foundation awarded UCLA professor of computer science Miryung Kim a research grant of $84,000 to support her research project titled “Toward Interactive Debugging of Big Data Analytics.” 

UCLA Operation Mend was honored with a 2015 Newman's Own Award and $50,000 grant during a ceremony at the Pentagon on Sept. 2.

Soraya de Chadarevian, a professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, has been awarded an NSF grant to explore the history of genetics research.