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John Friedmann as an internationally renowned pioneer in urban theory and planning and a central figure in the founding of what is today the Department of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Min Zhou, director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center and the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications, has been selected to receive the 2017 Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Section on International Migration.

A panel of UCLA-appointed judges identified 10 of the most innovative proposals. Now members of the community can vote on the final four until Sunday, June 18.

The institute awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies to UCLA's Yasemin Yildiz.

Two UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs scholars are being recognized for seeking to frame diverse theoretical approaches to the study of urbanization as a common language or foundational concept.

Through its annual Distinguished Career Award, Excellence in Leadership Award and Rising Star Award, the UCLA Administrative Management Group shines a spotlight on dedicated staff.

UCLA has been awarded a grant to help encourage participation and cultivate the talent of students in the natural sciences, especially underrepresented ethnic minorities, first-generation college students and working adults with families.

Graduating students and guests will attend nearly 60 ceremonies and celebrations this weekend June 16-18 all over the UCLA campus. 

Audiences headed to UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 26th Annual Film Festival will be able to enjoy the exceptional work of student film makers, animators and actors June 10-14.

UCLA computer science professors Sriram Sankararaman and Ameet Talwalkar have received a $718,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Audrey Pool O’Neal, a lecturer in mechanical and aerospace engineering and former senior manager with General Motors, has been named director of the Women in Engineering program.

The 2017 fellowship will enable associate professor Nouri Gana to explore cross-cultural literary and cultural production.

California Gov. Jerry Brown recently appointed four people to the UC Board of Regents.

Winners of the Staff Assembly Staff Scholarships will also be honored.

As part of People Power, a film series that explores successful grassroots political movements around the world, the Hammer Museum presents a screening of “Amandla!:  A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony.”

UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed up for a matinee screening series of new and classic family-friendly films from around the world.

The UCLA alumna devoted nearly her entire professional career to the campus. “She embodied the essence we all treasure in a colleague, teammate and friend.”

The initiative will focus on two areas of research: understanding science at the nanoscale through advances in imaging and sensing technology, and secondly, the development of micro-scale microfluidic engineering and device design.

Research shows that Americans favor citizenship for those already here, but worry about allowing more in.

Visit UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's end-of-the-year all-school exposition featuring work from two campuses located at Perloff Hall and the IDEAS Culver City campus.

A briefing was held by UCLA Government and Community Relations because of increased interest shown by the campus community in responding to the proposed budget by the Trump administration.

UCLA School of Law is launching new initiatives to promote cutting-edge research in food law and animal law and to build bridges between the two fields.

The Kuiper Prize is the highest award bestowed by the American Astronomical Society to a planetary scientist.

UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library has named a new head librarian. Anna Chen will join the Clark this summer, arriving from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Daniel Blumstein, a professor in the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the recipient of the 2017 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, presented annually by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA.