Faculty Bulletin Board

Peter Loewenberg, UCLA emeritus professor of history, gave the keynote address to the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Vereinigung of the German Psychoanalytic Association at its annual congress.

UCLA Anderson's Edward Leamer received an award for outstanding antitrust litigation achievement in economics.

Jens Lindemann, professor of trumpet at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was named to the Order of Canada for his skill as a world-renowned trumpet soloist.

Nadereh Pourat, the director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has also been appointed director of the Center's Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) has awarded the UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) an annual prize given for a bibliography, archive or digital project. The prize is one of two awarded for the 2012–13 period.

UCLA professor Olga Kagan, director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the 130th annual Modern Language Association convention on Jan.10, 2015, in Vancouver.

Urban Planning lecturer Stephen Commins was part of a team of researchers that wrote the World Bank’s new World Development Report for 2015, "Mind, Society and Behavior."  

Professor Emeritus Robert Burr, one of the country’s leading authorities on Latin American history, passed away on Dec. 8 following cardiac arrest in Port Jefferson, Long Island.

Burglind Jungmann, UCLA professor of art history, has published a new book, 'Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910.'

Gonzalo Freixes of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has received the 2014 Bud Fackler Service Award from the Executive MBA Council.

Professor Ananya Roy has been appointed inaugural director of the new UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, effective July 1, 2015.

Two UCLA faculty members Michael E. Jung, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Asad Madni, a distinguished adjunct professor of electrical engineering, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.

UCLA Anderson Associate Professor of Management and Organizations Jenessa Shapiro  is one of five early-career academics to be recognized by the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology with the SAGE Young Scholars Award.

Kathryn Kietzman, project director of the “Helping Older-Adults Maintain IndependencE” (HOME) Study, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Santa Monica Commission for the Senior Community. HOME, which is based at the UCLA Center for Health Research.

Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute have received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Wharton Research Data Services, one of the world’s leading data research institutions, has awarded the Wharton-WRDS Best Paper Award in Empirical Research to two UCLA Anderson professors, Daniel Andrei and Bruce Carlin.

Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek of UCLA's Department of Electrical Engineering has received funding from NASA to study new coding and signal processing mechanisms to help overcome unreliability in memories used in deep space applications.

Greg Carman, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

In response to the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill disaster, UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Science professors, Jeroen Molemaker and James McWillams, have been awarded $2 million by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.

Professor Rachelle Crosbie-Watson received the 2014 Lotus Award from Coalition Duchenne for her outstanding contributions to Duchenne muscular dystrophy education, research and awareness.

The premiere of the grand opera 'La Paloma y el Ruiseñor' in Mazatlán, Mexico, earned accolades for UCLA professors Roger Bourland and Mitchell Morris.

UCLA professor emeritus John Hawkins delivered keynote addresses on issues in higher education in during a recent visit to Asia.

Dr. Amy Rosenman has been installed as the new president of the American Urogynecologic Society, the nation's largest professional scientific organization devoted to the field of pelvic floor disorders.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA Law’s David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor, has received a three-year appointment as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.

Rita Effros was installed as president of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. Efrros is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA