BY HEATHER GOYETTE
UCLA Today
Faculty members who earned tenure last spring
after years of hard work were hailed by their colleagues, alumni
leaders and guests at a reception Nov. 19 hosted by the UCLA
Alumni Association at the James West Alumni Center.
The second annual Faculty Tenure Reception honored
29 newly tenured professors, who received plaques recognizing
their achievement.
Among them was Michael Chwe of political science.
“I don’t know of any other university
that does this,” Chwe commented, adding, “I wish
I had brought my kids here so they could see their dad getting
an award.”
Academic tenure is essential for the protection
of academic freedom and is key to attracting the most promising
professors to the university, said Steven Halpern, chair of
the association’s Faculty and Campus Relations Committee.
“If we bring quality faculty to UCLA, quality students
will follow,” he said.
Among the faculty members eager to meet some
of UCLA’s newest professors was Law Professor Kenneth
Klee, who called them “an extraordinary group of people”
with diverse research interests that range from the study of
algae in estuaries and lagoons to legal procedure.
“It’s appropriate that the alumni,
who are the permanent stakeholders at UCLA, are honoring the
newest permanent members of the faculty — the scholars
charged with educating and challenging future gen-erations of
alumni,” said Alumni Association Executive Director Keith
Brant.
A list of the honorees:
Benartzi, Shlomo - Management
Bronnenberg, Bart - Management
Campbell, Cameron - Sociology
Carbado, Devon - Law
Cheng, Genhong - Microbiology, Immunology &
Molecular Genetics
Chwe, Michael - Political Science
Engel, Stephen - Psychology
Fong, Peggy - Organismic Biology, Ecology and
Evolution
Klee, Kenneth - Law
Lesure, Richard - Anthropology
Lyons, Karen M. - Orthopedic Surgery/Biological
Chemistry
McNeese-Smith, Donna - Nursing
Nathan, Lauren - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Neeman, Itay - Mathematics
Phelps, Patricia - Physiological Science
Rees, Helen - Ethnomusicology
Richardson, Nancy - Film & Television
Rubenstein, William - Law
Saltzberg, David - Physics & Astronomy
Savage, Roger - Ethnomusicology
Schwartz, Benjamin - Chemistry & Biochemistry
Sinsheimer, Janet - Human Genetics
Smith, Laurence - Geography
Soatto, Stefano - Computer Science
Stark, Kirk - Law
Stoll, Michael - School of Public Policy and
Social Research
Thies, Michael - Political Science
Wesel, Richard - Electrical Engineering
