Coates is the founding director for the UCLA Center for World Health, has been named the new director of the University of California Global Health Institute.
James Bowie, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College, will be honored at the society’s annual meeting in February in New Orleans.
The University of California is sending so many athletes that they make up 8 percent of the U.S. delegation. In all, UC participants are competing in 18 sports under the flags of 27 countries.
Ann Carlson, professor of environmental law and the inaugural faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, has given a series of lectures in Berlin and Frankfurt at the invitation of the U.S. State Department.
Stephen Hubbell, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, is the 2016 laureate of the International Prize for Biology for his outstanding contributions to biology research.
Devon Carbado, the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, is the inaugural associate vice chancellor of BruinX, a multidisciplinary unit within UCLA’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
UCLA health care professionals met with Los Angeles inner-city students during a UCLA Health Allied Health Job Fair at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie got permission from actress Elizabeth Taylor before she died in 2011 to photograph the star’s home and personal possessions during the last year of her life.
Disclosure of employee compensation data for 2015 is part of the university's commitment to being transparent and publicly accountable for its conduct.
On Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 7:30 p.m., the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Confucius Institute present "Body of the Buddha: Art of the Dunhuang Temples." The conversation will be led by historian D. Neil Schmid.
On Thursday at 8 p.m., trombonist Michael Vlatkovich and his band of versatile improvisers will perform in the Hammer Museum’s courtyard as part of the museum's 11th annual Jazz POP series of free concerts.
Steven Christiansen, a lecturer in architecture and urban design in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, recently received two International Design Awards in the category of conceptual architecture.
Saving a life was the last thing Dr. Stephanie Brenman, a fourth-year emergency medicine resident, expected to do as she rode on the last leg of a seven-day charity bike event.
Albert “Al” A. Barber, who served as vice chancellor of research programs at UCLA from 1971 to 1991, died at age 87 from lung cancer at his home in Upperville, Virginia, on July 30.
A satellite launched from Vostochny, Siberia is expected to advance space sciences for years to come, said Shprits, the mission’s principal investigator.