Faculty Bulletin Board

Purnima Mankekar, UCLA professor of Asian American studies and gender studies, has received the 2013-14 C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA.

Marcus Roper, UCLA assistant professor of applied mathematics, has received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Samuel Skootsky, chief medical officer for UCLA Health System and adjunct professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine, along with UCLA's Project SEARCH recently received 2014 Healthcare Leadership Awards from the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Twenty-seven UCLA assistant professors have received the Faculty Career Development Award, which provides research support at a critical time in the pre-tenure stage. Awards are made in the form of summer ninths or lump-sum research grants of $5,000 to $10,000.

Robert Kaplan, professor emeritus of health policy and management at the Fielding School of Public Health, has been named chief science officer at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, an organization under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Behzad Razavi, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, and UCLA postdoctoral scholar Hegong Wei have received the 2013 IEEE CICC Best Paper Award.

Carol Bakhos, associate professor of late Antique Judaism and Jewish studies, has published her latest book, 'The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Interpretations,' with Harvard University Press.

Susan Slyomovics, UCLA professor of anthropology and Near Eastern languages and cultures, has published a new book, 'How to Accept German Reparations.'

Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.

Chih-Ming Ho of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected a distinguished Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Rachel Moran, dean of the UCLA School of Law, has been appointed to the newly formed American Bar Association Task Force on the Financing of Legal Education.

Daniel Posner, UCLA professor of political science, has been awarded a grant from the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance of the United States International Agency for Development.

David Jentsch, UCLA professor of psychiatry and psychology, and Dario Ringach, professor of neurobiology and psychology, have received the 2014 Biomedical Research Leadership Award from the California Biomedical Research Association.

The Getty Foundation recently announced grants totaling $685,000 to UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, Fowler Museum, Hammer Museum, and Film and Television Archive to cover research, planning for 'Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA' in 2017. 

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

UCLA education professor emeritus John Hawkins has been appointed a Distinguished International Professor at East China Normal University.

A guest house designed by Steven Christensen, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, was selected by the American Institute of Architects for its Emerging Professionals Exhibition in Washington, D.C.

UCLA professor of history Mary Terrall has published a new book, 'Catching Nature in the Act.'

Michael Lens, assistant professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has received awards from both the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate for his research in housing policy.

Patricia Gándara, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, has been selected as the 2014 Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University’s School of Education.

Sandra Harding, UCLA professor of education and gender studies, has been honored with the 2013 John Desmond Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

UCLA professor Fernando Torres-Gil has been named to the California Social Work Hall of Distinction by the California Social Welfare Archives.

UCLA professor of physics and astronomy Ni Ni has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.

UCLA professor of architecture and urban design Sylvia Lavin's 'Everything Loose Will Land' explores the dynamic intersection of architecture and the visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s. The exhibit is at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.

Professor Peter Sellars of UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance has won the 2014 Polar Music Prize, has been named 2014-15 director-in-residence of the English National Opera and will be honored by the New York Park Avenue Armory this fall.