Faculty Bulletin Board

Dr. Sunil Sheth, a fellow in radiological sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded $154,000 to advance his research on a lab test to diagnose stroke from a single drop of blood.

Works by six UCLA art faculty are featured in the new Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition, 'America is Hard to See.'

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, has a new grant-funded project to tell the story of young black and Latino men who, despite troubling statistics surrounding their identities, are thriving academically.

UCLA’s Community Partners in Care has won an international award that highlights the power and potential of community-campus partnerships as a strategy for health equity and social justice.

UCLA professor Dennis Hong, one of the world’s leading designers of humanoid robots, served as host of the May 21 premiere of 'Robot Revolution,' an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

As of July 1, several centers and programs at the UCLA International Institute will have new directors and associate directors, and the Institute itself will have a new associate vice provost.

Neil Denari recognized for his significant contributions to architecture and society and for excellence in the profession.

The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, is a participant in ‘What It Means to Be American,’ a national conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square.

The UCLA Academic Senate has selected psychology professor Robert Bjork and history professor Arch Getty as the recipients of the 2015-2016 Faculty Research Lectureships.

Scott Brandenberg, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.

Dr. Karin Nielsen, UCLA professor of pediatric infectious diseases, has won a prestigious Brazilian prize in health sciences.

Carol Kruse, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in immunological therapy for brain cancer, passed away on March 28 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 61.

David Myers, professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair in the UCLA College’s Department of History, has been awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History.

UCLA School of Law has been ranked No. 1 in The Hollywood Reporter’s listing of the top entertainment law schools.

Four UCLA brain researchers have been selected for two of six awards recently announced by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to support work at the frontier of one of the most challenging roadblocks in neuroscience: growing mature human brain cells in the laboratory.

New endowed chair will support teaching, research and patient care for special needs patients and will be held by the head of the school’s section of special patient care.

UCLA's Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital received a grant of $60,000 from the LA Women’s Circle of Giving.

UCLA history professor Ivan Berend, who was liberated from Dachau 70 years ago and became a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism, retired last week at the age of 85.

Harold Demsetz, an emeritus professor of business economics at UCLA, has won the Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of New Institutional Economics.

Philip Rundel, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po`okela Award of Excellence for Books on Natural Science.

A generous gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro, all of whom are UCLA alumni, funded the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences.

Ken Klee has received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Bankruptcy.

Behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi, professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is publishing ‘Thinking Smarter: Seven Steps to Your Fulfilling Retirement...and Life’ on May 12.

UCLA's Daniel Oppenheimer and Guillaume Roels, have been named among 'The World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors' by Poets and Quants.

Anthony Tolbert, director of learning environment and academic affairs and an adjunct faculty member at UCLA Law, has received the UCLA Chancellor’s Diversity Leadership Scholarship.