Faculty Bulletin Board

Michelle Caswell, assistant professor of information studies, received the Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her book, 'Archiving the the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia.'

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.

Matthew Lieberman, professor of psychology at UCLA, received the 2015 SESP Career Trajectory Award on behalf of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

Glen MacDonald, UCLA’s John Muir Memorial Endowed Chair in Geography, and Laurence C. Smith, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography, have been elected to the Class of 2015 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union.

Professor Christopher Russell of the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics testified before Congress on July 28 about his work with NASA’s Dawn Mission, which he leads.

Kang Wang, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering, is received the 2015 Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding Research Award.

Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has been reelected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors for 2015-16.

Hal Hershfield, assistant professor of marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and two collaborators have been selected to receive a $200,000 research grant from the Imagination Institute.

The astrophysicist is being honored by the UK academy for her 'acclaimed discoveries ... on the motions and nature of the stars orbiting the black hole in the centre of our Galaxy.'

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of society and genetics as well as environmental health sciences, has received a 2015 Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA education professor, has been appointed by UNESCO as the inaugural chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education.

Sally Frautschy, a professor of neurology at UCLA, has received a $300,000 grant to fund her work on brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.

Hal Hershfield from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management will receive a grant from the Imagination Institute, together with Diana Tamir of Princeton University, to fund their project on exploring the imagination.

C. Cindy Fan has been appointed UCLA’s vice provost for international studies and global engagement, announced UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott L. Waugh.   Since 2012, Fan served on an interim basis as vice provost for international s

Professor Lionel Popkin is the new chair of the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, according to an announcement made by Interim Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture David Roussève.

Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, will appear on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on July 15 as co-host of a tribute to the archive, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Asad Madni, Distinguished Adjunct Professor in UCLA's department of electrical engineering, has been inducted as an eminent member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of electrical engineers.

Dr. Rajan Kulkarni, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and clinical instructor in the division of dermatology, has been granted a Young Investigator Award of $75,000 on behalf of the Melanoma Research Alliance.

Diane Favro, UCLA professor of architecture and urban design, has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Diana Bontà, adjunct professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded the Hispanics in Philanthropy Giver Award for her leadership in health funding in California.

Professor Sudipto Banerjee, chair of the department of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a 2015 Distinguished Achievement Medal by the American Statistical Association.

Stephen Aron, an authority on the American West and author of “The American West: A Very Short Introduction,” recently published by Oxford University, is the new Robert N. Burr Chair of UCLA’s department of history. Since joining the department in ...

Dr. Clarence Braddock III, vice dean for education and chief medical education officer at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named chair of the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine. 

This year on Independence Day, Eugene Volokh, professor at UCLA School of Law, was one among 38 naturalized citizens to be recognized by the organization as part of its “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” initiative.

The American Society of Human Genetics has named UCLA researcher Leonid Kruglyak the 2015 recipient of the Curt Stern Award for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics early in his career.