Faculty Bulletin Board

David Heber, UCLA professor emeritus of medicine and founding director of the UCLA Center for Nutrition, was inducted into the 2014 Class of Fellows of the American Society for Human Nutrition.

Kathleen L. Komar, UCLA professor of comparative literature, will receive the 2014 Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership from the UC Academic Council and the Assembly of the Academic Senate.

Sarah Stein, UCLA professor of history, has published a new book about the marginalization of Jewish communities in southern Algeria by French authorities.

UCLA professor of bioengineering, electrical engineering and surgery Dr. Warren Grundfest has been named the winner of the Pierre Galletti Award by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Mark Garmaise, a professor of finance in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, will take up the post of dean of the MBA program, effective July 1, 2014.

Judea Pearl, a UCLA faculty member since 1969, was honored for his 'distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

UCLA physicians Dr. Mario Deng and Dr. Martin Cadeiras are partnering with students of UCLA and Marymount High School to create an art therapy program to help patients receiving heart failure treatment.

UCLA professor Demetri Terzopoulos has been named a Royal Academy Fellow for his work to unify the fields of computer vision and computer graphics.

Mark Peterson, UCLA professor of public policy, political science and law, will become chair of the Public Policy Department at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs on July 1, 2014.

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected the 2014 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award. They join a very select group of UCLA’s finest teachers.

Two UCLA emeriti professors, pediatric surgeon Dr. Eric Fonkalsrud and Howard Suber of the School of Theater, Film and Television, have been selected to receive the 2014 Dickson Award, one of the highest awards given to emeriti faculty at UCLA.

Eight UCLA faculty members are among the newest class elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.

UCLA social scientists Miriam A. Golden and Robin D.G. Kelley are among an esteemed group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Deborah Nadoolman Landis, a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has received the Costume Designer/Technologist Award from the Costume Society of America.

Sarah Haley, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for 2014-15.

Elizabeth Thomas, professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, was elected as Fellow in the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses.

Dean Judy Olian of the UCLA Anderson School of Management joined other leaders of top business schools for a meeting with White House senior advisers on April 16 to discuss best practices for the 21st-century workplace.

With two deans and six additional faculty members elected, UCLA is home to more 2014 fellows than any other public university in the country.

UCLA political scientist Miriam A. Golden and UCLA historian Robin D.G. Kelley will use their 2014 fellowships to complete book projects.

Dr. Owen Witte, director of UCLA's Broad Stem Cell Research Center and a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, has been inducted into the American Association for Cancer Research.

The efforts of Christine Littleton, UCLA vice provost of diversity and faculty development and professor of law and gender studies, and Susan Drange Lee, director of diversity and faculty development, are highlighted in a new book from the Association for Women in Science.

Behzad Razavi, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, has received the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education PSW Outstanding Teaching Award.

Tatsuo Itoh, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his exceptional accomplishments in innovation and invention for the benefit of society.

UCLA life scientist Kirk Lohmueller is among 15 exceptional scientists nationwide to be selected as 2014 Searle Scholar.

A team of community leaders and researchers from UCLA and RAND led by principal investigator Dr. Kenneth Wells has received the 2014 Joint Team Science Award for a 10-year project to improve depression care.