Faculty + Staff Archive

The secretary-general of the United Nations willl address guests at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire at a dinner hosted by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the RAND Corporation.

Professors Edward De Robertis and John Agnew join select group of UCLA's most accomplished scholars.

The Department of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs has once again been named the most influential planning school in North America, according to an analysis by Thomas W. Sanchez of Virginia Tech.

A UCLA engineer is on an international team of engineers and biologists attempting to get unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently in order to design unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings.

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music faculty members Raynor Carroll (percussion), James Miller (trombone), and Thomas Hooten (trumpet), were some of the members of the L.A. Phil, to perform on Stephen Colbert's nightly show.

'The Big Bonanza' recounts the rush of fortune hunters, among them Samuel Clemens, to Nevada in the 1860s to prospect for silver ore.

Director of pediatric otolaryngology and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Shapiro is co-editor of a new book for health care professionals.

The UC regents today approved a new retirement program for future UC employees as part of a broader effort to maintain the university’s excellence and sustain its long-term financial health.

Four finalists will compete on Saturday, March 26, at Avalon Hollywood to spin for the official after-party for the Electronic Music Awards and Foundation show on April 14.

Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Evan Frankel Professor of Policy and Practice at UCLA School of Law, won the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for environmental law.

Retired Gen. John R. Allen, President Obama's former special envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will talk on campus about what the next steps in the U.S. and global strategy against the Islamic State should be.

UCLA Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne and lecturer Wil Carson have received 2016 Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards from ARCHITECT, the journal of the American Institute of Architects.

Don Nakanishi, a UCLA scholar who gained national recognition for establishing Asian American studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service and public discourse, died March 21. He was 66.

'Recent advances in 3D printing of biomaterials' was the year's most frequently accessed study in the Journal of Biological Engineering.

Barnes, who will join UCLA on April 18, has served as director of the UC Davis Retiree Center since 2009.

UCLA's Code for the Mission Competition seeks new approaches to advancing UCLA's mission of education, research and service.

As part of the United Nations World Water Day on March 22, UCLA will take part in Tuesday’s White House Water Summit that aims to raise awareness of water challenges in the United States.

The professor of human genetics and biological chemistry has been awarded the 2016 Edward Novitski Prize for his pioneering body of work in genetics.

Dan McLaughlin, who, for 37 years, headed an animation program at UCLA that was considered one of the finest in the country, died in his sleep on March 15 in West Hills, California. He was 83.

Silva and Tetradis were selected as being among the most promising individuals to become leaders in dental and higher education.

A charge nurse at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Vandegrift oversees an ongoing stream of patients and the doctors and nurses who care for them.

At-risk faculty, staff and students will be invited to participate in a program found effective in preventing type 2 diabetes.

A professor of urban planning and Chicana and Chicano studies, Valenzuela has played a leading role in elucidating the phenomenon of day labor.

The honor recognizes the professor of education and Asian American studies for notable and sustained research achievements.

The 1996 film, about the relationship between two women in loveless marriages, spurred intense controversy in India and won honors worldwide.