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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Chancellor of UCLA
Office of the Chancellor
Thank you for leading UCLA as its seventh chancellor with a global-health scholar's care for people and public purpose.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Thank you for stewarding UCLA's academic mission as EVC and Provost, a Bruin who knows the campus from the ground up.
Professor of Mathematics, James and Carol Collins Chair
Department of Mathematics
Thank you for a generosity of mind that made UCLA home to a Fields Medalist who still shares his craft openly with the world.
Professor of Mathematics, Takesaki Endowed Chair in Operator Algebras
Department of Mathematics
Thank you for solving long-standing problems in von Neumann algebras and carrying that depth into UCLA's classrooms.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Chair in Astrophysics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Thank you for two decades of patient observation that confirmed the black hole at our galaxy's heart, honored with the 2020 Nobel Prize.
Professor of Physics, Founding Director of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Thank you for the tools that turned scattering amplitudes into a bridge from quantum theory to gravitational waves.
Distinguished Research Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Thank you for a thousand-plus papers of computational insight into how reactions really happen, and for still going strong.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Thank you for making organic chemistry one of UCLA's most loved courses and for meeting students where they are.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering, Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor of Materials Innovation
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Thank you for a prolific inventor's imagination, from graphene energy storage to water membranes, shared through UCLA labs.
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Flint Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Thank you for a half century at UCLA sharpening how we think about mind, meaning, and knowledge.
Stanley M. Zimmerman Professor of Economics and Finance
Department of Economics
Thank you for macroeconomic research on debt, money, and firm solvency that helps us reason about the whole economy.
Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Department of History
Thank you for histories of freedom dreams, labor, and jazz that let readers imagine a more just world.
Distinguished Professor of English, Marcia H. Howard Professor of Literary Studies
Department of English
Thank you for showing how stories shape what we know about the environment and how we choose to act on it.
Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory
Computer Science
Thank you for giving machines and people a calculus of cause and effect, and for teaching it at UCLA since 1970.
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
Thank you for sending the internet's first message from a UCLA lab and for a lifetime spent building what connects us.
Chancellor's Professor and Volgenau Chair in Engineering Innovation, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thank you for putting laboratory-grade diagnostics into mobile devices so more people can access good medicine.
Professor of Medicine, Surgery, and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology; Director, Tumor Immunology Program
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Thank you for helping bring immunotherapies like pembrolizumab from the lab to patients who needed them.
Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology
Department of Medicine
Thank you for the decade of persistence behind Herceptin, a targeted therapy that changed breast cancer care.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Thank you for revealing nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the body, work honored with the 1998 Nobel Prize.
Irving and Jean Stone Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Thank you for decades of discovery in developmental genetics and for teaching that earned UCLA's highest honors.
Connell Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
Thank you for constitutional scholarship that makes hard questions about rights clearer for students and citizens alike.
Distinguished Professor of Law, Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights
UCLA School of Law
Thank you for the idea of intersectionality and a career spent helping the law see people more fully.
Henry Ford II Distinguished Professor of International Economics
Global Economics and Management
Thank you for a clear-eyed study of exchange rates and emerging markets that has guided policy and students for decades.
Distinguished Professor, Founding Director and Chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design
Film, Television and Digital Media
Thank you for dressing films that shaped a generation and for building UCLA's home for the art of costume design.
This directory is unbounded, in pursuit of every professor at every university, everywhere. Every person is real, public, and cited; anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed.
A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of California, Los Angeles, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.