Faculty Bulletin Board

UCLA professor Stephanie Pincetl, an expert in urban sustainability, has been named to the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission.

UCLA pathology professor Robert Schiestl has been named to the America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals for 2015.

UCLA architecture professor Georgina Huljich and her team at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S have won two design awards for Jujuy Redux, a mid-rise apartment building in Rosario, Argentina.

Christopher Tang, professor of decisions, operations and technology management and the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration in the UCLA Anderson School, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Professor Thomas M. Phillip at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies has been awarded the Spencer Foundation’s Midcareer Fellowship.

Kendall Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, has reached a milestone in his distinguished career: his 1,000th research publication.

Five community health projects led by UCLA's Dr. Bowen Chung, Dr. Maria Garcia, Dr. Gilberto Granados, Audra Langley and Dr. Jyoti Puvvula were selected to receive $20,000 each in funding.

Law professor emeritus Gary Blasi has received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for his work in the public interest.

Angel investors Scott and Cyan Banister have given $125,000 to support UCLA School of Law’s First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic.

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of environmental health sciences, has been awarded the 2015 International ToxScholar Grant from the Society of Toxicology.

The book 'Immigration Outside the Law,' by UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura, has won the Association of American Publishers 2015 Professional and Scholarly Excellence Award in the Law and Legal Studies category.

Smadar Naoz, assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been selected to receive a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

UCLA sociology professor Judith Seltzer has been appointed to the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations.

Paintings by Silke Otto-Knapp are being showcased in the exhibition 'Land Lies in Water' at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada through July 19.

Dan Goebel and Gabor Temes have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. The award recognizes contributions and innovations to engineering research, practice or education. 

Adam Schoenberg will have his compositions performed internationally this year.

Asad Abidi has been chosen as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2015 by UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Among the 18 collaborative proposals that were selected to receive UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives awards are four UCLA-led projects that will share in more than $23 million over four years, UC announced Monday.

UCLA postdoctoral scholar Aomawa Shields of the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been named to the 2015 class of TED fellows.

UCLA associate professor Marissa López has been named as one of 30 fellows in the New Leaders Project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Dr. Philip Levin has been appointed chief medical officer of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.

UCLA education professor Li Cai has won an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

UCLA researchers Shu-Wei Huang, Christopher Holbrook and Wen Li have been selected to receive 2015 Air Force Young Investigator awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.