Faculty + Staff Archive

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.

UCLA’s Lionel Popkin has choreographed a new work, "Inflatable Trio." His dance is set to be performed from Feb. 23-25 at 8 p.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam was honored by the Université catholique de Louvian in Belgium.

The UCLA Police Department is honoring the 2016 civilian employee, Julie Ouyang, and officer of the year, Robert Chavez, for embodying the department's values of accountability, respect, integrity, service and excellence. 

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA plans to donate approximately half of the profits from a presentation of "Dirtsong" to UCLA's American Indian Studies Center. The performance takes place Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall.

The Association for Asian American Studies recently honored Grace Hong and Min Zhou for their publications.

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World will be the first center in the Western Hemisphere that aims to advance the knowledge of ancient Iranian languages, history and religions.

Aomawa Shields studies the climate on distant planets. But she also earned an M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television and worked as an actress.

On behalf of the National Science Foundation, Andrea Bertozzi will be one of the NSF-funded scientists who will be featured for making an impact on the real work with her discoveries.

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, discusses her latest book on the poet Robert Lowell and how his bipolar disorder relates to his creative genius and character.

Matthew Robb, the new chief curator of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, believes we still have much to learn from the ancient cultures of the Americas.

UCLA chemistry professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2017 Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Richard Strassberg’s 2016 book, “Thirty Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints,” translates the Kangxi emperor’s “Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat,” written to commemorate the emperor's new summer palace.

A piano professor in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Inna Faliks has been named to Stony Brook University’s list of outstanding alumni 40 years of age or younger.

Musician, producer and educator Danilo Lozano brings Narada Production’s Cuba L.A. project to UCLA’s Fowler Museum for a sizzling hot concert of Cuban classics and contemporary songs.

Social welfare research professor Yeheskel “Zeke” Hasenfeld and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs alumna Eve Garrow have been named winners of the Social Service Review’s 2017 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize.

Bret Stephens will comment on America’s current political climate.

Israeli media artist and researcher Daniel Landau explores the boundaries of body, identity and self using virtual reality technology.

Three faculty members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have received one of the highest honors that can be given to an American engineer.

In her fifth season as the leader of UCLA’s public performing arts presenter, Edmunds continues to find innovative ways to champion this most ephemeral of art forms.

Astrophysicist and author Jeffrey Bennett, winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award, will discuss the science and consequences of global warming Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in UCLA’s Physics and Astronomy Building, room 1-425.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will highlight the significance of women in film in the 1970s and 1980s at the Billy Wilder Theater.

UCLA’s own Josephine Leah, student, musician, actress and model, is known her sultry, dark pop songs fused with undertones of soul. She'll be performing new original material as well.