Faculty + Staff Archive

Dr. Siavash Kurdistani, associate director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center's Gene Regulation Program, has been appointed chair of the UCLA Department of Biological Chemistry, beginning July 1.

The UCLA Department of Medicine will lead partners focused on reducing imaging for nonspecific low back pain, pre-operative testing and antibiotics for viral-based upper respiratory illness.

The UCLA Administrative Management Group announced its 2015-16 board members.

Susan Akens has been appointed executive director of UCLA School of Law’s Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Law Program, as of July 1.

UCLA computer resource specialist Michael Fehr and Naomi Nakamura of UC San Francisco have been elected staff representatives to the University of California Retirement System Advisory Board.

Five early-career researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior have been selected to receive 2015 Friends Scholars Awards of $100,000 over two years to support their research.

Dr. Alan Felsenfeld, a professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was appointed chair of the American Dental Association’s Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition.

Archaeologist Laura Tedesco and Abbas Kamwand of the U.S. Embassy will discuss efforts to save the art and culture of Afghanistan in a Hammer Forum at UCLA's Hammer Museum on Tuesday, June 30.

Shaina Zaidi, a former UCLA Women’s Basketball student-athlete, has been named director of the Bruin Varsity Club by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.

Beginning this fall, the University of California will provide students with the option to voluntarily self-identify their sexual orientation and gender identity on the undergraduate admission application to help the university better understand and meet the diverse needs of its students.

University of California President Janet Napolitano shared good news about the positive impact that California’s 2015-16 final budget will have on the university, from employee compensation to undergraduate tuition.

Four research projects will receive inaugural grants in a new UCLA School of Dentistry program to provide seed funding to launch pioneering basic and translational research.

More than 50 people came together today to share deeply felt anger, compassion, fear and frustration as well as hope for healing in response to last week’s tragic shooting in South Carolina.

Individual tickets for all upcoming shows by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA go on sale on Friday. Tickets may be purchased via cap.ucla.edu, Ticketmaster or directly through the UCLA Central Ticket Office.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA will present “Singular Spaces," an exhibition on view from April 12 until Sept. 6 that features photographs of Spanish art environments made by self-taught artists across the Iberian Peninsula.

Zocalo and UCLA will host a discussion about the policies, services and street strategies that will help homeless people stay off the streets, 7:30 -9:30 p.m., Monday, June 29, at the Plaza on Olvera Street.

Margaret Steele, a veteran of development and fundraising for more than 30 years, has been named executive director of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation.

Social welfare assistant professor from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Ian Holloway has been selected as a 2015-16 Hellman Fellow for his research.

A gathering of the UCLA campus community will be held at noon Thursday, June 25, to honor the nine lives lost in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

'Re:Work,' a radio show produced by the UCLA Labor Center to highlight the contributions of workers in America, has won a national Gracie Award for Outstanding Portrait/Biography in the category for local, public and student radio and television.

UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh has invited members of the campus community to volunteer at the Special Olympics World Games, on campus July 25-Aug. 1.

Scientists, entrepreneurs and investors will gather at the Entrepreneurship Summit at Kerckhoff Hall, 8:30 a.m.– 2 p.m., June 27, to discuss entrepreneurial opportunities in the growing biotech landscape of Los Angeles. 

Professor of art history Irene Bierman-McKinney, lauded by a colleague as 'one of the unsung intellectual forces of our field of Islamic art and architecture,' died on March 8, 2015.

Bestselling author and meditation teacher Pema Chödrön and Grammy-winning recording artist and Buddhist practitioner k.d. lang will provide guidance on how to live a well-balanced life at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 20 at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Clinton Bench has been named the new director of UCLA Fleet and Transit. He previously served as manager of Transit Service Planning for the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization.