Congratulations to Professor Denise Chavira for receiving the 2017-18 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award for Community Service and Praxis. This award honors “a faculty member who has built solid, lasting, and meaningful partnerships with community groups and organizations who have a significant impact on the diversity of Los Angeles and surrounding communities.”
Professor Michelle Craske was featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “In a Fight Against Depression, UCLA Relies on Technology.” The article is available on the Chronicle’s website.
Professor Patricia Greenfield wrote an opinion piece in the Miami Herald about violent video games and assault weapons in the U.S. The op-ed is available on the Miami Herald’s website.
Congratulations to Professor Martie Haselton on her new book “Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones — how they drive desire, shape relationships, influence our choices, and make us wiser.” To read the UCLA Newsroom article about the book, please visit http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/from-puberty-to-menopause-womens-hormones-serve-them-well-ucla-professor-shows-in-new-book. The book has also received attention from other websites (listed below): EurekAlert (American Association for…
Congratulations to Professor Jesse Rissman for being selected as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences for 2018. Fellows are selected by a committee of Academy members from among young researchers who have already made recognized contributions to science, including recipients of major national fellowships and awards and who have been identified as future…
Professor Lara Ray was interviewed by the New York Times about people’s tolerance for alcohol as they age. The article is titled “Do Hangovers Get Worse as We Age?” and is available on the New York Times website.
Congratulations to Professor Carolyn Parkinson for being selected as a 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience. The Sloan Foundation notes that the Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations for most of the very best early-career scientists from the United States and Canada.
A study by Professor Adriana Galván and psychology graduate student Sarah Tashjian, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, is being prominently featured on UCLA’s home page and the UCLA Newsroom. The researchers explain how some people disturbed by the 2016 presidential election have suffered a loss of appetite, trouble sleeping and concentrating, and have become…
A study led by Professor Carolyn Parkinson, published in the journal Nature Communications, is receiving national and international news coverage. The study found that friends have exceptionally similar neural responses to naturalistic stimuli, such as videos, and that patterns of brain activity can be used to predict the “degrees of separation” between people in their real-world…
Congratulations to Prof. Adriana Galván, who was selected for a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant in conjunction with her sabbatical in Spain this coming year.