Faculty + Staff Archive

The UCLA Academic Personnel Office announced the recipients of the Unit 18 professional development awards. The annual awards support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of lecturers, officially known as Unit 18.

UCLA Professor of Education Tyrone Howard has been selected as one of 14 2017 AERA Fellows by the American Educational Research Association.

Assistant adjunct professor of ethnomusicology and renowned tabla player Abhiman Kaushal was featured on White Sun’s Grammy award winning album “White Sun II.”

The Marian Group formulates theoretical models of how materials will behavior under conditions that are nearly impossible to physically replicate, such as ultrafast heating, high-dose irradiation or very fast deformation rates.

Jill Horwitz took a few minutes to answer a few fun, random questions about tacos and her favorite book in Zócalo's green room before participating in the Zócalo/UCLA panel “Can Anything Stop America’s Opioid Addiction?"

On the eve of the Academy Awards, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, chair and founding director of the Copley Center, welcomes a stellar group of international costume designers, including three 2017 Oscar nominees, to campus to discuss their craft.

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance presents a night of storytelling in Royce Hall at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 21.

UCLA’s Fowler Museum will celebrate the opening of “African-Print Fashion Now!” from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Fowler’s Lenart Auditorium on Saturday, March 25.

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a distinguished professor of law at both the UCLA School of Law and Columbia University Law School.

Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, UCLA adjunct professor of music and a member of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Board of Trustees, is one of this year’s recipients of Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, considered by many to be the "Nobel Prize" of music.

UCLA professor emeritus Christopher Ehret has been working as a primary adviser on the PBS series, "The Great Civilizations of Africa," produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 

When LaWana Richmond was selected as Staff Advisor to the Regents in 2015, she knew from her predecessors that it would be a learning experience. But it was not until she stepped into the role that she fully grasped the magnitude.  

Steven Christensen is an architect and lecturer at UCLA.

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents its latest restoration projects at the UCLA Festival of Preservation March 3 through March 27 at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Chair and CEO. of 20th Century Fox Film Stacey Snider, who has overseen production of numerous top-grossing and award-winning films, will be the keynote speaker at UCLA School of Law’s 41st entertainment symposium.

Join UCLA’s Fowler Museum for a spectacular Bollywood and Bhangra dance lesson and performance with Blue13 Dance Company.

“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution.

UCLA’s Department of Ethnomusicology invites you to a two-day celebration of the traditional music and ritual of Thailand.

The award is given to early-career faculty with the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.

There are important differences between the two flexible spending accounts as to what happens to money remaining in your account at the end of the plan year.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

UCLA is tied for eighth in the United States among institutions with the largest number of Sloan Research Fellowships.

Join the Hammer Museum for a night of poetry with Evie Shockley, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 2. Shockley is the author of several poetry collections, including “the new black.”

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs researchers have been selected to join the Research Network on Misdemeanor Justice, based at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, to study policing patterns related to misdemeanors in the city of Los Angeles.

"The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts" is an exhibition curated by world arts and cultures/dance professor Polly Nooter Roberts.