Faculty + Staff Archive

Academic Senate has selected the recipients of the 2017-2018 Faculty Research Lectureships: 123rd Faculty Research Lecture, Michael Green (Psychiatry) 124th Faculty Research Lecture, Ellen DuBois (History).

The award is funded by a gift endowment established by the late Edward A. Dickson, a UC regent from 1913 to 1946, to honor outstanding UCLA emeriti for research, scholarly work, teaching and service.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is an internationally recognized ensemble whose mentors include the legendary Herbie Hancock, Herb Alpert and Wayne Shorter.

With an all-female ensemble, choreographers Darrian O’Reilly and Sarah Jacobs combine physical humor and idiosyncratic theatricality to animate the Fowler courtyard from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17.

Stand Up To Cancer has awarded a total of $1 million to four teams of cancer researchers to advance innovation in collaboration.

Chef Massimo Bottura, whose Osteria Francescana is among the world’s most highly regarded restaurants, will appear at the fifth annual public lecture.

Tony Award–winning playwright and activist Eve Ensler and UCLA professor and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a conversation and offer strategies for surviving the current political climate as antiracist feminists.

Robert Hill is among 16 outstanding individuals being awarded honorary degrees from the University of Toronto.

UCLA historian and author Benjamin Madley won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for his  “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873”

Dr. Abbas Ardehali, a professor of surgery and medicine, has been selected as a 2017 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.

Sam Emaminejad, assistant professor of electrical engineering at UCLA, has demonstrated that a wearable biosensor can be used in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, diabetes and other diseases.

Teams of UCLA Law students and colleagues from other schools at UCLA competed by offering detailed presentations on their innovative companies to a group of experienced venture funders and business attorneys.

Join the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures for five days of kyogen with living national treasure Mansaku Nomura and his student Yukio Ishida.

Watch 12 finalists complete in this competition to determine who best can represent UCLA in explaining their research to the public in three minutes. The winner advances to the systemwide contest May 4.

UC researchers identify disease causes and develop cures and life-enhancing biotechnologies — but the funding that makes this possible is at risk.

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, USC Annenberg School of Communication and USC School of Cinematic Arts present "Transforming Hollywood 8: The Work of Art in the Age of Algorithmic Culture."

Election to membership is among the most widely recognized international measures of scholarly excellence in academic medicine.

Dr. Richard Shemin, the Robert and Kelly Day Professor of Surgery and chief of cardiac surgery, is new member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative is envisioned and supported by Jane and Terry Semel.

What exactly does “healthy” mean — and can you rely on it? The Food and Drug Administration is trying to find out.

UCLA celebrated the planet Thursday at the annual Earth Day Fair, showcasing sustainable university initiatives, environmental student groups, as well as green classes, projects and organizations from on and off campus.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative invites you to attend a TEDxUCLA Salon exploring Eudaimonia — what is it and why more of it is needed.

Eight of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s finest classical musicians were selected to perform in the 13th annual All-Star Concern

Dr. Raymond Schultze, former director of the UCLA Medical Center who also served concurrently as administrative vice chancellor for six years, died Friday, April 14, in Thousand Oaks, California. He was 83.

Join the UCLA American Indian Studies Center in rallying on behalf of Native American efforts to preserve the environment, and for a celebration of indigenous culture and identity.