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Dr. Ashley Busuttil new medical director, UCLA Health Clinical Operations
Dr. Ashley Busutti will be assuming the newly created role of medical director of Clinical Operations, UCLA Health.
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Snehendu Kar awarded Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair
Snehendu B. Kar, professor emeritus of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair award by the U.S.-India Educational Foundation.
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Paul Ong receives Don T. Nakanishi Award
Paul Ong, a professor of urban planning and a member of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, is the 2013-14 recipient of the Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship in Asian American Studies at UCLA.
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Todd Presner publishes 'HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities'
Todd Presner, chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and professor of Germanic languages, comparative literature and Jewish Studies, has published the book, “HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities” with Harvard University Press.
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David Roussève new associate dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
David Roussève is the new associate dean for Academic Affairs in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
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Emily Scivoletto named dean of students, UCLA School of Law
Emily Scivoletto will join the UCLA School of Law as dean of students on Aug. 14, coming from the University of San Diego School of Law.
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Steven Wallace receives award for contributions to gerontology, geriatrics
Steven P. Wallace, professor and chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2013 Betty and James E. Birren Senior Scholar Award.
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Volunteer for the fun at Aug. 14 All-Staff Picnic
Help make this year's UCLA All-Staff Picnic fun for your fellow Bruins — and add to your own enjoyment while you're at it — by serving a quick shift as a volunteer.
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Ka-Yuet Liu named UCLA Hellman Fellow
Ka-Yuet Liu, assistant professor of sociology at UCLA, was named as a 2014-2015 Hellman Fellow for her research on California vaccine requirements
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Scientific reunion to celebrate 3.5 billion years of paleobiological discovery
A group of 47 eminent scientists who met in the laboratories of UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf produced two remarkable books documenting the earliest history of the Earth. Thirty-five of them will reunite at UCLA for a July 22-24 conference.
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Getting 9,000 new Bruins ready for school
The complex task of introducing 9,000 incoming freshmen and transfer students to UCLA's campus and culture is a yearlong job for Roxanne Neal and her staff.
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‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ returns to the lawns of Clark Library
Back by popular demand after sold-out houses last summer, the Oscar Wilde classic, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” will be performed at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in five performances by the Chalk Repertory Theater, July 25-August 2.
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Victoria Steele to serve as interim head librarian at Clark Library
Victoria Steele, who served for close to nine years as head of UCLA Library Special Collections before taking a post at the New York Public Library, will return to UCLA in August as interim head librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
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Blacklisted screenwriter Norma Barzman opens 'Hollywood Exiles in Europe' series
UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.
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'Made in L.A. Music' starts tonight at the Hammer
UCLA’s Hammer Museum and KCRW are teaming up to present Made in L.A. Music, four nights of free, live, Los Angeles-based music in the museum courtyard over four weeks.
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UCLA Library unifies loan periods to better serve faculty, staff, students
The UCLA Library system has established new unified loan periods to make it easier for UCLA and UC faculty, staff and students to manage items checked out from the Library’s circulating collections.
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Q&A: Clarissa Byrd on helping kids in the ER cope
Clarissa Byrd brings comfort and understanding to children who are experiencing stress or trauma in the hospital’s emergency department.
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'Cruzamentos' contemporary Brazilian documentary series begins this weekend
This weekend marks the launch at UCLA's Billy Hammer Theater of “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary,” a month-long pageant of weekend showings of Brazilian film.
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Mr. Fix-it applies ingenuity to costly and vexing problems on the Hill
When confronted with a difficult job, Sam Houston Huffman always looks for a better way. As a facilities mechanic working in UCLA residence halls, he's been able to devise new ways to make costly, time-consuming repairs easier, cheaper and safer to complete.
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Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei honored as a 'founding mother' of Asian theater scholarship
UCLA professor emerita Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei will be honored by the Association for Asian Performance accomplishments that include her role as a 'founding mother' of Asian theater scholarship.
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UCLA and Natural History Museum explore drought in ‘Just Add Water’
Water researchers from UCLA, the Natural History Museum and elsewhere are helping the region understand issues, history and possible solutions related to the drought. A discussion series featuring panels of experts begins July 10.
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Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival starts July 15
The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, an annual event presented by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, features four free concerts this year.
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'Made in L.A. Music' free at the Hammer July 10
On Thursday, July 10 at the UCLA Hammer Museum, The Do-Over and Innovative Leisure present De Lux, The Do-Over mystery guest DJs and KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer.
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Mark Kligman named UCLA's inaugural Mickey Katz Professor of Jewish Music
Kligman is a renowned expert on Jewish music, from sacred liturgical traditions to contemporary popular music. He joined the UCLA faculty July 1.
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Dino Di Carlo wins Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award
Dino Di Carlo, associate professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is the recipient of the 2014 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award from Analytical Chemistry and the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.
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Faculty + Staff
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Scientific reunion to celebrate 3.5 billion years of discovery
UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf led a team that documented Earth’s earliest history.
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‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ returns to the lawns of Clark Library
The Oscar Wilde classic will be performed on the library's sweeping grounds and courtyards, starting July 25.
Help make this year's UCLA All-Staff Picnic fun for your fellow Bruins.