Faculty Bulletin Board

The American Bar Foundation has named Dean Emerita Rachel Moran, the Michael J. Connell distinguished professor of law at UCLA School of Law, as the Inaugural William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law for 2015-16.

The UC Office of the President has awarded a multi-campus research programs and initiatives grant of $1.07 million over four years to establish the Consortium for Black Studies in California.

The State Bar of California honored the UCLA Williams Institute's Los Angeles HIV Law and Policy Project with a Pro Bono Service Award.

Professor Stephen Smale has been appointed as the inaugural vice dean for research in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, beginning Oct. 1.

Eric Scerri, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is featured in the PBS documentary 'The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements, which premieres Wednesday, Aug. 19. 

UCLA faculty are invited to apply for a newly established $25,000 Faculty Climate Action Champion Award.

Karen A. Grimley has been appointed the new chief nursing executive for UCLA Health and assistant dean in the UCLA School of Nursing.

A team of engineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in partnership with Southern California Edison, has received a $1.62 million grant to build a hybrid energy storage system.

Amit Sahai, UCLA professor of computer science, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from DARPA to develop software that can't be hacked.

A new research protocol developed by a UCLA team led by public health professor William McCarthy is being recommended by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use by other researchers.

Janet Frank, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a $400,000 grant to study mental health services for seniors.

UCLA associate professor Benjamin Ellingson is the 2015 recipient of a research scholar grant of $790,000 from the American Cancer Society to further develop a new imaging technique for the early identification of brain cancer tumors.

Bhagwan Chowdhry, professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is serving as the inaugural visiting scholar at Stellar Development Foundation.

Todd Yeates, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the 2016 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Delano Award for Computational Biosciences.

"Hawaiian Plant Life: Vegetation and Flora" (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014) by Phil Rundel, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and two co-authors won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award of Excellence in Natural Science from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has established the Barbara Boyle Promising Producers Prize.

Héctor Calderón, professor of Spanish American, Mexican, and Chicano literature and cultures, was named chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

UCLA's Charles Corbett, professor of operations management and sustainability, has been named the IBM Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

No-Hee Park, dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry and Distinguished Professor of Dentistry and of Medicine, has decided to step down as dean on June 30, 2016, and return to his research and teaching.

James Welling, professor of photography at UCLA’s department of art, will have a solo exhibition that features 50 pieces that demonstrate painter Andrew Wyeth’s formative influence on Welling’s career.

Dr. Aichi Chien, an associate professor of radiological sciences, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bee Foundation to advance her research on the computational analysis of brain aneurysms.

Dominique Hanssens, Bud Knapp Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, is the recipient of an award for his lifetime contributions to the theory and practice of marketing.

Dr. Timothy Miller, a UCLA emeritus professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, was honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America with an Excellence in the Sciences Award.

Janet Ruth Hadda, a Yiddish professor of Germanic languages, psychoanalyst and biographer, died June 23 in from metastatic cancer. She was 69.

John Hawkins, emeritus professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has published 'Research, Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education.'