135th Lecturer
Dana Cuff
Professor, Architecture and Urban Design Department, Urban Humanities Initiative, and Urban Planning
Director, cityLAB - UCLA
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"Architecture’s Promise: Designing Equitable Futures"
On March 7, 2024, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Urban Planning Dana Cuff discussed the challenges surrounding architecture's ability to design more equitable futures.
136th Lecturer
Daniel Geschwind
Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor, Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry
Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor, Precision Health
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"The DNA of Discovery: How Genetics Has Transformed our Understanding of Complex Brain Disorders"
Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Human Genetics Daniel Geschwind will discuss progress in understanding the causes of complex brain disorders, focusing on autism and related neuropsychiatric conditions.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Time: 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. PDT | Location: Schoenberg Hall
Past Recipients
2023 (Spring)
Baljit Khakh
"The Stars Align: Overlooked Brain Cells Critical for Physiology and Disease"
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UCLA Newsroom Story
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2023 (Winter)
Patricia Greenfield
"Pandemic Culture: Adapting to Survival Threat and Small-Scale Social Environments"
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UCLA Newsroom Story
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Nomination Guidelines
Nominated and selected by peers, the distinguished recipients of the Faculty Research Lecture awards are exemplary of UCLA’s commitment to research excellence. The lecture format of this honor provides the recipients a platform to share their scholarship broadly with faculty, students, and the UCLA community and is a recognition of the importance of the wide dissemination of knowledge generated by UCLA faculty.
Previously administered by the Academic Senate, the Faculty Research Lecture is now a program of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA).
