Faculty + Staff

Berns led the Fowler, one of the world’s top museums focusing on the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the indigenous Americas, for nearly 20 years.

The linguistic anthropologist is co-editor of a new book that brings together 27 academics to analyze and understand the language of our political moment.

Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, journalist Kimberly Atkins, and law professor Jessica Levinson will discuss Ginsburg’s legacy.

Dr. Keith Vossel said: “Our plan is to grow the center’s expertise in areas of neuroimaging, stem cell biology and precision medicine.”

Powe, who oversaw programs in which public officials, community leaders and alumni mentor students, died Sept. 16. She was 66.

Ananya Roy, founding director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, received the honor designed to support progressive academics.

Ella Haselswerdt, assistant professor of classics, has been honoroed for her article “Sound and Sublime in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: The Limits of Representation.”

The first annual Hawthorne Award was named after boron research pioneer M. Frederick Hawthorne.

Kounalakis is the 50th lieutenant governor of California and a former Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary.

A new film by two UCLA faculty members focuses on volunteers who search the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants who have died.

Binder co-founded and was the driving force behind UCLA Law’s trailblazing experiential education program from its inception in 1970.

Professor Aslı Bâli offers insight into activism in Turkey by way of a social media selfie trend.

The world-renowned expert in meteorites and lunar rocks had a mineral named after him. He died at home in Los Angeles on Sept. 7.

UCLA is on track to run a completely carbon-neutral fleet by 2025.

During his career, he contributed to general relativity, the theory of weak interactions and models for elementary particles based on the mathematical description of knots.

Telluric Vibrations will be livestreamed from the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden and the molecular imaging labs underground at the California NanoSystems Institute.

The temporary change in UC’s Absence from Work policy provides additional relief for parents balancing work and child care responsibilities and expires Dec. 31.

Jennifer Steinkamp, Los Angeles-based media and installation artist, will be featured in two exhibitions opening this month.

Tom Bradbury,distinguished professor of clinical psychology, has been awarded the Ernest W. Burgess Award from the National Council on Family Relations.

Dr. Antoni Ribas, director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the award for his work on malignant melanoma.

Sharon Traweek, associate professor of gender studies and history, has received the prestigious Bernal prize.

Professor of geography and expert in climate change and atmospheric dynamics around Antartica helped found the institute in the 1990s.

The five-year, $2.4 million award will help Alice Soragni and Paul Boutros better understand why various treatments fail or succeed.

Led by Sarah Haley, professor of gender and African American studies, the mission is to support and develop Black feminist scholarship and ideas among the campus community.

UCLA’s Bonny Bentzin offers encouragement for those who, thanks to the pandemic, see the word “reusable” and think “infected.”