July 03, 2008
A union representing 8,500 University of California service workers, including approximately 2,225 at UCLA, has notified UC labor contract negotiators that it is organizing a strike, to begin as early as July 12.
July 01, 2008
The seven-year deal runs through the 2014-15 season and includes guaranteed compensation of $1.97 million for the 2008-09 season that escalates to $2.3 million.
June 27, 2008
Twenty-one UCLA students will be working in fishing villages in Thailand this summer, helping to rebuild coastal communities destroyed by the devastating tsunami of 2004.
June 26, 2008
With gas prices rocketing toward $5 per gallon and rush hours that challenge even the Zen-est of temperaments, something unusual is happening to UCLA commuters: They are giving up solo driving in record numbers
June 25, 2008
Physiology Professor Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist, was well into a study of birds when he got the idea for his book, "Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality."
June 23, 2008
Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez gave a talk about his friendship with homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers to a packed audience at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
June 23, 2008
When Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje was a child in Jesup, Ga., she didn't think much of African music and culture. Now she's an international expert with a new book, "Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures." DjeDje chairs the UCLA ethnomusicology department.
June 18, 2008
In its second quarterly report of 2008, the UCLA Anderson Forecast cautiously affirms the "no recession" prognostication it has been advocating over the past several quarters, while acknowledging that the most recent employment data ― an increase in the unemployment rate from 5.0 percent to 5.5 percent ― falls within "recession range."
