Faculty Bulletin Board

UCLA Professor Brenda Stevenson's "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the Los Angeles Riots" has been named the best book on race relations published in 2013.

Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, has published a new book, "The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850."  

UCLA professor Edward Alpers' new book, "The Indian Ocean in World History," explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA professor of law, has been honored with the 2014 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

UCLA associate professor Katsuya Hirano's new book, "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan," explores the evolution of Japan's radical transformation.

UCLA animation professor Chuck Sheetz recently directed an episode of "The Simpsons," which aired on Fox on March 16.

Tony Chan, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics and president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Ira Kurtz, a UCLA professor of medicine, has received a $3 million gift from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation to fund research on the structural properties of key proteins in the kidney that affect its function in health and disease.

Dr. Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the UCLA Longevity Center, was appointed president-elect of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.

Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA professor of statistics and computer science, and Alan Yuille, UCLA professor of statistics, have won the 2013 PAMI Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award.

Reynaldo F. Macias, professor in Chicana and Chicano studies, has been selected to receive the 2014 National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies Scholar Award. The award was established in 1981 to recognize life achievement contributions of ...

UCLA sociology professor John Heritage has been given the title of academician by the Academy of Social Sciences, an organization that promotes social science in the United Kingdom for public benefit.

Yi Tang, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA division of physical sciences, has received the 2014 Eli Lilly Award in ...

Neil Peter Jampolis, UCLA professor of theater and a lighting, scenic and costume designer and stage director for theater, opera and dance, designed the lighting for the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s "Il ...

Joseph DiStefano III, professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has authored a new textbook, "Dynamic Systems Biology ...

Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, director of the Islamic Studies Program of the UCLA International Institute, was awarded the 2014 American Muslim Achievement Award at the Pasadena Convention Center on March 15. The award honors Muslims who have ...

The University of California has awarded four grants totaling $2.5 million to scale up proposals that have shown potential to improve health care while delivering a return on investment to UC medical centers. The grants will go to UC Health projects ...

Three UCLA faculty members will be honored at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference with awards that recognize both a lifetime of outstanding work and high achievement at the beginning of an academic career. Eva Baker, ...

Janet Bergstrom, UCLA professor of cinema and media studies, delivered a keynote lecture for the international conference, "The Magic of Special Effects: Cinema-Technology-Reception," in Montreal, Quebec. Her lecture, "Murnau’s ‘Sunrise’: In-Camera ...

Linda Kerns, adjunct associate professor of theater, is directing "Going to St. Ives" at the Actor’s Co-op in Hollywood, now through March 16. The two-person drama, written by Pulitzer Prize-nominee Lee Blessing, tells the story the mother of an ...

Tom Nunan, a visiting assistant professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and a member of the school's steering committee, recently sat down with Charlie Day and Rob McElhenney to talk about their FX show "It's Always Sunny in ...

Anastassia Alexandrova, UCLA assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been appointed to the editorial board of Scientific Reports, a research publication within the Nature Publishing Group. The editorial board, composed ...

Edmond Keller, professor of political science and director of UCLA's Globalization Research Center, has published a new book, "Identity, Citizenship and Political Conflict in Africa." The book reconsiders how national identity has been understood in ...

The latest result of the collaboration between UCLA lecturer Julia Koerner in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design and celebrated fashion designer Iris Van Herpen of Amsterdam was presented earllier this month during Paris Fashion Week at ...