Faculty + Staff Archive

Dozens of UCLA staff members celebrated their graduation on June 5 from UCLA's Project SPELL, where they learned English and changed their lives.

Professors Ian Larkin, Danny Oppenheimer and Bruce Carlin of the UCLA Anderson School of Management are being recognized for excellence in teaching, research, leadership and mentorship.

Pedro Noguera, currently the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Rebeca Méndez, a professor in UCLA’s Department of Design|Media Arts, is a member of a design team selected to design the Tucson January 8 Memorial and the El Presidio Park master plan. 

Throughout his career in educational research, Louis Gomez, chair and professor of education and information studies, has sought to improve the life chances of students with a focus on improving educational innovations.

Neil Garg, professor and vice chair for education in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has won the 2015 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, sponsored by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA.

Aisha Finch, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies and African American studies, has published the new book, 'Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844.'

Jennifer Mnookin has served as vice dean for faculty and research and as vice dean for external appointments and intellectual life, and she is founding faculty director of the school’s Program on Understanding, Science and Evidence.

Dr. Richard Shemin, chief of cardiac surgery at UCLA, always knew that William Shemin — his cousin twice removed — “was a phenomenal war hero,” although the former World War I sergeant was never given the Medal of Honor. On Tuesday, President Obama changed that.

UCLA’s 2015-16 Distinguished Teaching Awards to non-Academic Senate faculty, teaching assistants have been announced.

In “Project Fatherhood,” social welfare professor Jorja Leap writes about the struggles and triumphs of men doing their best to become good fathers and mentors in Watts.

An exhibition of works by painter Joseph Holtzman opens on June 6 at UCLA's Hammer Museum.

Attend an opening reception for 'Please Help,' the end-of-year exhibition of works by senior students from the UCLA Department of Art, 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, June 4 at the New Wight Gallery of the Broad Art Center.

Roger Pigozzi, corporate chef and assistant director of dining for UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services, reveals why he thinks the tomato is the most fascinating food and his favorite cookbook.

Neo Muyunga’s opera, 'The Struggle,' serves as a departure point for a panel discussion at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 2 at the Hammer Museum.

LaWana Richmond, a business analyst and postal center manager at UC San Diego, has been named staff advisor-designate to the UC Board of Regents for 2015-2017.

Miguel Garcia-Garibay, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected by UCLA Staff Assembly to receive the 2015 Faculty-Staff Partnership Award.

Dr. Sunil Sheth, a fellow in radiological sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded $154,000 to advance his research on a lab test to diagnose stroke from a single drop of blood.

UCLA staff members Margaret Govea and Octavio Olvera will receive the 2015 Chancellor's Excellence in Service Award.

Works by six UCLA art faculty are featured in the new Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition, 'America is Hard to See.'

A collection of social media pictures posted by urban planners and acolytes of retiring urban planning professor Donald Shoup posing with a life-size cardboard cutout of the man who wrote the book on parking.

Richard Creese has spent 31 years teaching UCLA students to write. Now the author of eight unpublished novels is the embodiment of the lesson that persistence pays off.

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, has a new grant-funded project to tell the story of young black and Latino men who, despite troubling statistics surrounding their identities, are thriving academically.

UCLA’s Community Partners in Care has won an international award that highlights the power and potential of community-campus partnerships as a strategy for health equity and social justice.

UCLA professor Dennis Hong, one of the world’s leading designers of humanoid robots, served as host of the May 21 premiere of 'Robot Revolution,' an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.