Faculty + Staff Archive

A close call with death in 1986 led Morocco to a new career saving lives.

Professor and vice chair for education in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Garg has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the American Chemical Society’s EJ Corey Award.

Kelley, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, does a candid interview in the Zocalo Public Square green room.

'Made in L.A. 2016' artist Dena Yago joins a stimulating discussion at the Hammer Museum on the blurring of lines between art and commerce in our society.

Hear from Hammer Museum curatorial fellow Marcela Guerrero in a free, 15-minute talk about Cameron, an avant-garde artist in her day.

Filmed in the State of Israel just five years after it was established, the film features Kirk Douglas in a tour de force performance of international resonance.

The annual colloquium brings together a panel of UCLA Law faculty and other experts to discuss the most important upcoming cases on the U.S. Supreme Court docket and analyze the implications of these cases.

From 2-3 p.m. on Sunday, August 21, the Fowler Museum presents a special dance program by Ka Hale Hula O Pilialohaokalani O Hilo.

A new book co-edited by UCLA Luskin professor Laura Abrams gives a voice to volunteers, including prisoners, who donate their time to improving lives.

UCLA School of Law has received a gift of $100,000 from the estate of Vicki Lynn Shapiro to support students pursuing work in entertainment law.

UCLA senior lecturer in music and Hollywood studio flutist Sheridon Stokes was featured at the opening concert for the 44th Annual National Flute Association Convention in San Diego.

BruinTech provides a forum for UCLA IT professionals to share technical knowledge and experience, encourage innovation and foster professional development.

A study by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute of the rapid formation of startups at UC campuses found that universitywide research has led to hundreds of new companies, supporting 146,000 jobs.

Beginning Sept. 10 at the Bruins' home opener against UNLV at the Rose Bowl, enhanced screening procedures will be implemented at UCLA football games in order to provide a safer environment for the public and significantly expedite entry.

Mary Terrall, a professor of history at UCLA, has been recognized by the Society for the History of Natural History for her book, “Catching Nature in the Act: Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the 18th Century.”

UCLA professor Tyrone Howard, AJ Scheitler, Yen Ying Shek and Minh Tran took part in the Summer Scholars Meeting of the Research Integration Strategies and Evaluation for Boys and Men of Color.

UCLA psychiatrist Kenneth Wells answers random questions for Zócalo Public Square.

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television professor Myung Hee Cho helped create a new musical show for Shanghai Disney's fairytale castle.

As a part of the UCLA Health Initiative, the Semel Institute’s Mindful Music program offers free musical performances to relax one’s mind.

On Wednesday, Aug. 17, the Fowler Museum presents “Waa’gey: Mysteries of the Wayfinding Voyagers,” a documentary about young men from Micronesia who build a canoe and sail to Guam.

David Yoo, director of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, will become vice provost of the Institute of American Cultures, effective Sept. 1.

If you spend hours commuting to work and sitting at your desk all day, recent studies about the health hazards of too much sitting probably have hit home.   

Ellen Scott, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has been named a 2016 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

More than 300 technology leaders, innovators, policymakers, journalists and academics will gather Friday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Club to share their ideas on closing the gender and diversity gap in the technology sector.

The Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology appointed Julienne Bower, UCLA professor of psychology and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, the George F. Solomon professorship of psychobiology.