Faculty Bulletin Board

“The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism” co-authored by Robert E. Buswell Jr. of UCLA and Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan, has won the prestigious 2015 Dartmouth Medal for outstanding reference work of the American Library Association.

A research paper by Jason Cong, a Chancellor’s Professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, was selected as the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper in the 2015 Asia South-Pacific Design Conference.

Dr. Victor Marder, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in the field of hematology research, died Jan. 29 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

UCLA engineering faculty members Yang Yang and Richard Kaner have been named 2015 fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

Dr. Richard Jackson, a professor of environmental health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Jonathan Furner has assumed the post of chair of information studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Professor Philip Kellman of the UCLA Department of Psychology was invited by the White House to participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C.

Renowned UCLA transplant surgeon Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil has been awarded the Hospital Physician Leadership Award by the Los Angeles County Medical Association.  

Distinguished Professor Ali Mosleh, the Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the first director of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA.

UCLA Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was among eight faculty members in the school who were featured in Education Week’s annual “Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.”

Sarah Stein has been awarded a National Jewish Book Award for her work as the co-author of "Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950." Stein was honored in the category of Sephardic culture and was given the Mimi S. Frank Award. 

UCLA History professor Brenda Stevenson, has received the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism from Womensenews.org.

Yoram Cohen, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named interim director of the Y and S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in the UCLA International Institute.

A paper published in JAMA Neurology by Dr. Brent Fogel, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, was cited as a “Best Advances of 2014” by the editorial advisory board of Neurology Today.

Timothy Deming, UCLA professor of chemistry, biochemistry and bioengineering, has been appointed as an associate editor of the American Chemical Societ Journal, Biomacromolecules.

Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black, UCLA professors of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, have been awarded a three-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on the immune system’s response to pathogens.

UCLA School of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law and Southwestern Law School have been awarded a one-year grant to establish a pilot program to help new attorneys launch and develop viable law practices serving low- and modest-income clients.

UCLA chemistry and physics professor Thomas Mason’s 'LithoPartical Dispersions: Colloidal Alphabet Soup' is on exhibit at the Boston Society of Architects Space.

Smadar Naoz, UCLA assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the prestigious 2015 American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Prize for outstanding research.

Linda Rosenstock, dean emerita of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been designated an Open Society Foundation International Scholar.

Alicia Gaspar de Alba has received the 2015 Book Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education for her book,  "[Un]framing the 'Bad Women' Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause" (University of Texas Press, 2014).

UCLA’s BRITE Center for Science, Research and Policy has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to address the delivery of mental health services under the Affordable Care Act.

Vickie Mays, professor of psychology in the UCLA College, and of health policy and management in the Fielding School of Public Health, has been reappointed to the federal advisory committee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.

Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a professor of pediatrics, has been appointed by the United States Government Accountability Office to the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Payment and Access Commission.