Faculty + Staff Archive

Elisa Long, an expert in probability and statistics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, wrote a column that appeared in the Washington Post about how statistics helped guide her through life, death and 'The Price is Right.'

President Napolitano has appointed a systemwide task force of UC faculty, staff and administrators to help develop a new set of retirement benefits options for UC to offer future employees hired on or after July 1, 2016.

Four recent UCLA retirees reminisce about their experiences and offer words of wisdom to their fellow Bruins.

James Welling, professor of photography at UCLA’s department of art, will have a solo exhibition that features 50 pieces that demonstrate painter Andrew Wyeth’s formative influence on Welling’s career.

Dr. Aichi Chien, an associate professor of radiological sciences, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bee Foundation to advance her research on the computational analysis of brain aneurysms.

Staff meteorologist James Murakami has been forecasting the weather for Westwood and the surrounding region for 33 years.

Catalina eddy? June gloom? Santa Ana winds? UCLA staff meteorologist James Murakami defines common Southern California weather terms.

Dominique Hanssens, Bud Knapp Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, is the recipient of an award for his lifetime contributions to the theory and practice of marketing.

Dr. Timothy Miller, a UCLA emeritus professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, was honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America with an Excellence in the Sciences Award.

Janet Ruth Hadda, a Yiddish professor of Germanic languages, psychoanalyst and biographer, died June 23 in from metastatic cancer. She was 69.

Rich Bertolucci, associate sports information director for UCLA Athletics, died on July 28, following a long battle with cancer. He was 56.

Takahashi, professor of urban planning and Asian American studies, has been appointed interim leader of the school effective immediately.

‘Kids in the Courtyard: Indian Sweets and Games,’ a free event for families, will take place at the UCLA Fowler Museum on Sunday, Aug. 9 from 1-4 p.m.

Film director Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' (1986) and 'Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads' (1983) screen on Aug. 8 as part of a UCLA Film and Television Archive series.

John Hawkins, emeritus professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has published 'Research, Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education.'

Michelle Caswell, assistant professor of information studies, received the Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her book, 'Archiving the the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia.'

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.

Matthew Lieberman, professor of psychology at UCLA, received the 2015 SESP Career Trajectory Award on behalf of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

UCLA Hammer Museum screens comedian Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious,' followed by a discussion with artist Mark Bradford and UCLA associate professor of English Uri McMillan on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 7:30, at the Billy Wilder Theater.

UCLA Health has been providing all the staff, materials and supplies to run the Special Olympics Polyclinic since July 24 to offer free medical care to any athlete or delegate who becomes injured.

Two classics directed by Dorothy Arzner, “The Wild Party” (1929) and “Anybody’s Woman” (1930), will screen 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 31, at the Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum.

Glen MacDonald, UCLA’s John Muir Memorial Endowed Chair in Geography, and Laurence C. Smith, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography, have been elected to the Class of 2015 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union.

The UCLA Volunteer Center, which is coordinating Team UCLA’s efforts campuswide, estimates that nearly 1,000 Bruin students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters are lending their time and talents to make the games a rousing success.

Professor Christopher Russell of the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics testified before Congress on July 28 about his work with NASA’s Dawn Mission, which he leads.

Kareiva will conduct research into urban conservation, improving environmental communications and exploring the role of consumer choices in pushing businesses to go green.