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Learn about 2018 Open Enrollment
UCLA Staff Assembly and Campus Human Resources will host a learn-at-lunch event from noon to 1 p.m. on Nov. 15. focusing on changes to UC health plans.
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Oct. 20: “The Gangster’s Daughter” West Coast premiere
The UCLA Film and Television Archive will host the premiere director Chen Mei-Juin’s debut feature film at the Billy Wilder Theater.
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In memoriam: John Johnson, 96, UCLA football standout and assistant coach
Former UCLA football standout and assistant coach John Johnson died in his sleep on Oct. 14 at the age of 96.
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Professor’s study of human development led to collection of Mayan textiles
Psychologist Patricia Greenfield’s “Weaving Generations Together” is on display at Powell Library through Dec. 15.
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UCLA’s outstanding teachers honored at special night
The recipients of UCLA’s highest honor for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Awards, were honored by the Academic Senate at a ceremony at the Chancellor’s residence on Oct. 11.
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Namhee Lee outlines vision for UCLA Center of Korean Studies
As the new director, Lee wants to utilize UCLA’s “tremendous group of scholars” to collaborate and shape the work being done at the center.
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Donald Shoup earns highest recognition from planning academy
Shoup, the distinguished professor of urban planning and internationally renownded guru of parking, received Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
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UCLA researchers receive $100,000 to study civic engagement and volunteering
UCLA Luskin professors Laura Wray-Lake and Laura Abrams will lead the study of what youth civic engagement looks like in urban contexts.
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Engineering team receives grant to develop “internet of things” for the battlefield
A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineering faculty has received research funding as part of a major Army Research Laboratory-funded initiative.
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Dr. Kelsey Martin named to Governor’s advisory committee on precision medicine
Martin, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been appointed by California Gov. Jerry Brown to the 14-member committee that will advise the governor's office.
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Staff news: Social worker honored with excellence in pediatrics award
Gina Kornfeind is the support and bereavement coordinator for the Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.
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American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes Dr. Neal Halfon
Halfon, founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the academy.
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UCLA cancer researchers receive grants for prostate cancer research
Three researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently been awarded grants from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
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Center for Human Nutrition receives $500,000 to support postdoctoral training
The grant comes from Shandong Longlive Bio-technology Co., a China-based company that produces functional sugars.
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Why schizophrenia leads to social isolation
Michael Green, UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, will deliver the 123rd Faculty Research Lecture about a topic that has fascinated him for decades.
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Oct. 18: The dangers of being a journalist in Mexico
“Journalism in Mexico: A Deadly Occupation” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum at UCLA.
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UCLA professors of biology and chemistry honored as 2017 Packard fellows
Elaine Hsiao, assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, and Hosea Nelson, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, are among 18 winners.
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New leader of Bunche Center at UCLA shines spotlight on justice, employment for African-Americans
UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle-Hernández’s Million Dollar Hoods project that maps the costs of incarceration in Los Angeles is now housed at the center.
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Professor inducted as fellow in American Academy of Nursing
MarySue Heilemann, associate professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, has focused her scholarship on improving the accuracy of portrayals of nurses in film and television.
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In memoriam: Vyacheslav Ivanov, 88, renowned literary scholar
Ivanov a world-renowned linguist, Indo-Europeanist, anthropologist and literary scholar was a member of the UCLA community for the past quarter-century.
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Open enrollment for 2018 coming up for UC faculty, staff
Open enrollment begins at 8 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 26 and will end at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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UC to form group to study, make recommendations about retiree health benefits
The group’s work will pertain only to retiree health benefits and does not affect UC retirement plan pension benefits.
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Chemist named one of 10 exceptional young scientists by Science News
Chong Liu, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry, was selected as one of the exceptional scientists age 40 and younger who are “ready to transform their fields.”
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Psychologist named to scientific council of major funder of mental health research
The honor for UCLA professor Carrie Bearden comes from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the nation’s top non-governmental funder of mental health research grants.
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Economics professor elected to editorial board
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, associate professor of economics, is now on the editorial board of the American Economic Review.
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New leader of Bunche Center spotlights justice, employment for African-Americans
- In memoriam: John Johnson, 96, UCLA football standout and assistant coach
- Engineering team receives grant to develop “internet of things” for the battlefield
- Staff news: Social worker honored with excellence in pediatrics award
- American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes Dr. Neal Halfon
- UCLA cancer researchers receive grants for prostate cancer research
- Center for Human Nutrition receives $500,000 to support postdoctoral training
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