Faculty + Staff

Chancellor Gene Block delivers a heartfelt message of gratitude to staff, students, faculty and alumni for their ingenuity and compassion during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert Weiss was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of biostatistical analysis in the context of public health.

Stein, director of UCLA's Leve Center for Jewish Studies, is well known for her scholarship, writing and teaching in the field.

Amit Sahai was honored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research for his influential research paper on encryption.

The webinar will focus on solution-based discussion about the health, economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black communities.

Ron Brookmeyer and his colleagues suggest a protocol that could be applied across infectious disease outbreaks and allow for the addition of new team members over time.

Tom Smith, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was honored with the Elliot Coues Award.

Javier Patiño Loira, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and David D. Kim, associate professor of Germanic languages, were named as recipients.

Christie, who currently serves as chair of the education department, will assume her role effective July 1.

UCLA’s Catherine Carpenter gives us the lowdown on food safety, hygiene and nutrition in the time of COVID-19.

The grant is led by Dr. Vatche Agopian and Hsian-Rong “HR” Tseng.

UCLA’s honorees are Miguel García-Garibay, Jennifer Mnookin, Pedro Noguera, Lynn Vavreck, Mary Nichols and Ann Philbin.

Q&A with Scott MacQueen, the Archive’s head of preservation discusses the history and recent restoration of the film, which is getting released on Blu-ray in May.

The UCPath system will be unavailable to all UC employees twice during April and May 2020.

Maite Zubiaurre has been awarded the 2020 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for her book “Talking Trash. Cultural Uses of Waste.”

The Bay Area native recently became co-editor of the preeminent scholarly journal for theater studies, and in May he will celebrate the publication of his second book.

Judith Carroll and Julienne Bower of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.

Assisted by UCLA Luskin colleagues, Chad Dunn secured a ruling that will allow more than 16 million registered voters in the state to vote by mail.

Robert Kaplan was honored with the award, which is jointly sponsored by the CDC Foundation and the James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation.

The grant funds the creation of a database of earthquake fault displacements and the development of a predictive model to estimate the displacements.

Google has awarded 2019-2020 Google Faculty Research Awards to four UCLA Samueli School of Engineering faculty.

The executive board has extended the nomination period and the election timeline for the 2020 Academic Senate elections because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UCLA Remote Work Committee will be hosting a webinar on improving your work-from-home arrangements covering things from ergonomics to A/V needs.

UCLA’s Daniel Fessler explains why staying away from each other seems so tough, even when we know it will save lives.

Shelleen Greene has received the 2020-2021 Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Leeds, in England.