Faculty + Staff Archive

The University of California is streamlining the menu of investment funds available to employees through the UC Retirement Savings Program (RSP) — 403(b), 457(b), and Defined Contribution Plans.

Patricia Kerrigan, a cognitive intervention specialist at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, will receive the Nan Songer Distinguished Member Award from APHOES, a professional organization in her field.

If successful, the team’s voltage nanosensors would greatly enhance scientists’ ability to study the brain.

When Karen Griffiths lost her 2-year-old son to leukemia in 1980, it opened her eyes to the compassionate role of pediatric nurses — a role she fills today at UCLA.

UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl lectures on 'ISIS and the Enslavement and Trafficking of Women' on Thursday, April 9, 6-8 p.m. at UCLA Law.

Andrea Fraser, professor of new genres in the UCLA art department, will have a comprehensive survey of her work exhibited at the Museum de Moderne Salzburg in Austria.

Powerhouse vocalist Vickilyn Reynolds belts out crowd-pleasing jazz, blues and gospel numbers in her one-woman musical, “Hattie...What I Need You to Know,” at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, 8 p.m., April 11 and Sunday, 2 p.m., April 12.

Ragini Gill has been appointed new director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, as of May 4. Gill has been serving UCLA Health since 2006 as a retirement and benefits counselor as well as program manager for staff health and wellness. 

Chang-Jin 'CJ' Kim, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the 2015 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering.

Kathleen Salvaty, an experienced litigator and civil rights advocate, has been hired as UCLA’s Title IX officer.

Hear from UCLA sleep experts, take a nap, practice mindful meditation and more during the UCLA Sleep Well Campaign, Monday-Friday, April 6-10.

A 2001 book by UCLA political science professor Michael Chwe — “Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge” (Princeton University Press) —  has been chosen as the seventh selection for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s book club.

Noah Zatz was awarded a John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for his project proposal, 'Precarious Work in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration.'

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw of the UCLA School of Law has been named among the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Kang spoke with UCLA Newsroom’s Eric Greene about his background and his goals for the new position.

Activist and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom screens 'The Mask You Live In' at 7 p.m., April 16, at UCLA's Kaufman Hall.

Professors Patricia Gándara, Sandra Graham and Noreen Webb, all on faculty in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, have been elected to the National Academy of Education.

William E. Moerner, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will present a public lecture at UCLA April 6.

Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been selected a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar.

Professor emeritus Richard Roll of the UCLA Anderson School of Management has won the 2015 Onassis Prize for Finance.

UCLA 'parking guru' Donald Shoup, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, will retire on June 30.

Dr. Dennis Slamon, director of the Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program and director of clinical and translational research at the Jonsson Cancer Center, will appear in a three-part, six-hour series on PBS, "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies."

Kelli Ham, consumer health and technology coordinator, at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, is the recipient of the 2015 Librarian of the Year Award presented by LAUC-LA, the UCLA division of the Librarians of the University of California.

If you’re wondering whether you’ll have the money you need when you’re ready to retire, UC’s Retirement Review, featuring your personalized retirement readiness score, is just the tool to help you.

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April with a series of free events presented by UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.