Michael Lens and Paavo Monkkonen’s study is part of a new White House Publication

Assistant Professor Michael Lens and Associate Professor Paavo Monkkonen's recent study is part of a new White House publication. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/luskin-school-faculty-contribute-to-new-white-house-toolkit-on-housing-development

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez receives an NIA R01 research grant.

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez received an NIA R01 research grant to expand and enhance the Latin American Mortality Database (LAMBda) and to test standard and new theories of old age mortality and longevity.  

Goleen Samari in the American Journal of Public Health.

Goleen Samari, past-NIH trainee at CCPR, published an editorial on Islamophobia in the American Journal of Public Health. Read more here: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303374  

Professor Paul Ong featured on UCLA Newsroom

Professor Paul Ong's research and findings has been featured on UCLA Newsroom. Titled "If you build it, will they have to leave?", UCLA urban planners create a tool to analyze how developments near L.A. light-rail and subway projects affects…

Julienne Bower named George F. Solomon professor of psychobiology.

The Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Julienne Bower, UCLA professor of psychology and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, to…

Ronald Brookmeyer receives the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society.

Ronald Brookmeyer received a Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society, “for his seminal methodological work in global health as it relates to disease monitoring and biosurveillance as it…

A. Janet Tomiyama featured on Bicycling Article

Professor A. Janet Tomiyama's research was featured in an article on Bicyling.com titled "Cyclists: It's Time to Say Bye-Bye to BMI" . Please read more here: http://www.bicycling.com/training/health-injuries/cyclists-its-time-to-say-bye-bye-to-bmi  

Professor Jennie Brand wins the Leo Goodman Award!

Professor Jennie Brand has won the Leo Goodman Award from the American Sociological Association's Methodology Section.  The award is given each year for contributions to sociological methodology and innovative uses of methodology by a scholar who…

Professor Jacob Foster is this year’s winner of the Star-Nelkin Paper Award!

Professor Jacob Foster (with his co-authors James Evans and Andrey Rzhetsky) is this year’s winner of the Star-Nelkin Paper Award given by the ASA section on Science, Knowledge and Technology. The award recognizes the co-authors’ 2015 article…

Professor Jacob Foster featured in Nautilus Magazine

Professor Jacob Foster’s recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (with Andrey Rzhetsky, Ian Foster, and James Evans) was featured in a Nautilus magazine article about conservatism in biomedical research. You can…