Social and civic entrepreneur Shawn Landres is serving as Civil Society Fellow in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs through the fall 2015 quarter.
MarySue Heilemann, associate professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, will present the 2015 National Institute of Nursing Research Lecture on June 24 at the National Institutes for Health.
Jon Christensen writes that artist Michael Heizer’s monumental sculpture called “City” best embodies the Western ethos of humanity’s role shaping and adapting to the vast open expanse.
Braving floods, fires and vampire mosquitoes, UCLA professor Susan Perry has spent 25 years chasing capuchin monkeys through the forests of Costa Rica. Her data have transformed what we know about these fascinating primates.
Beverly Lynch, professor of information studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, has received the 2015 Beta Phi Mu Award from the American Library Association.
A panel of Angelenos who study and work to improve the city honed in on how best to manage the forces that are rapidly transforming neighborhoods like Highland Park and Lincoln Heights. Participating was UCLA architecture and urban design professor Dana Cuff.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents the television play "Black Monday" and an episode of "East Side/West Side" at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 19 at the Billy Wilder Theater.
Professor Phillip Leslie writes that we shouldn’t let fear of private companies intruding on our privacy prevent us from reaping the benefits of using large data sets to enact policies.
Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff and his team at the UCLA Center for Policing Equity have launched the Justice Database to measure disparities in policing and provide data that have never been collected before.
Dr. James B. Atkinson has been named the interim associate vice chancellor and president of UCLA Hospital System. He serves in this role while the search for a replacement for Dr. David Feinberg continues.
Law professor Adam Winkler writes that there are two cases — one famous and one forgotten — that may haunt the chief justice and explain his recent pivot away from the court’s conservative bloc.
UCLA Anderson alumnus Dan Russ teamed up with his best friend to create Click2Speak, one of the most successful “social good” startups coming out of Israel.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been selected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching until 2019.
A national leader in identifying dangerous chemical exposures and then applying the findings toward regulations to protect health, John Froines has spent his career pursuing both.
The UCLA Hammer Museum screens 'What Tomorrow Brings,' the story of the first all-girls' school in a remote Afghan village, 7:30–9:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 17.
Cheers and tears filled UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion on Friday as seniors in the class of 2015 celebrated their graduation. Inventor Nathan Myhrvold delivered the keynote address at two ceremonies.
UCLA students go underground to the large, open spaces in UCLA’s parking structures to perfect their skills for competition and the pure love of performing.