Faculty + Staff Archive

Asad Abidi has been chosen as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2015 by UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Among the 18 collaborative proposals that were selected to receive UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives awards are four UCLA-led projects that will share in more than $23 million over four years, UC announced Monday.

Troy Ratcliff and Veronica Ochoa were named Medical Assistants of the Year by the UCLA Ambulatory Care nursing team.

UCLA postdoctoral scholar Aomawa Shields of the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been named to the 2015 class of TED fellows.

UCLA associate professor Marissa López has been named as one of 30 fellows in the New Leaders Project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Dr. Philip Levin has been appointed chief medical officer of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.

UC Living Well, the university’s wellness initiative, is here to help UC employees who want to lose weight, exercise more or just generally improve their health.

Marcus Anthony Hunter, assistant professor of sociology and African American studies in the UCLA College, will discuss his book, “Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America” on Thursday, Feb. 12 at the Bunche Center.

UCLA education professor Li Cai has won an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

UCLA researchers Shu-Wei Huang, Christopher Holbrook and Wen Li have been selected to receive 2015 Air Force Young Investigator awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive concludes its Kenji Mizoguchi series with “The 47 Ronin” on Feb. 15 in the Billy Wilder Theater.

Barbara Romanowicz, internationally renowned UC Berkeley professor of geophysics, will present UCLA's 2015 Mautner Memorial Lecture, 'A Voyage Through the Earth’s Deep Interior.'

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television welcomes a stellar group of international costume designers, among them this year’s Academy Award nominees, to discuss their craft.

Voters in Los Angeles City Council District 14 will be able to attend two candidate forums sponsored by UCLA Government and Community Relations to hear from those running for a seat on the city council.

Richard C. Hawkins, 92, a professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television who directed full-length ethnographic films, including two on the care of pre-school children in China and the Nuer tribe in Kenya, died Jan. 29 in Los Angeles.

Jayathi Y. Murthy, chair and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, has been appointed dean of UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced today.

Anthem, Inc. disclosed on Feb. 4 that it was the target of a very sophisticated cyber attack that potentially compromised information about UC students, retirees, employees and their dependents.

CaliParks.org aims to bring parks to everyone by making finding nearby parks and activities as easy as pulling out your smartphone.

Jillian Neuner raised $1,750 for UCLA research in honor of a friend battling Ewing's Sarcoma, one of the rarest forms of pediatric cancer.

An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.

Blake Allmendinger, a scholar of literature of the American West, has written a memoir about his mother, an eccentric recluse from whom he was estranged.

The Advisory Board Company's Consulting and Management Division announced on Tuesday that it has recognized the UCLA Health System with a national award for innovative initiatives that improved care quality and patient experience while lowering cost.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey will speak on the Criminal Justice Mental Health Project for the third annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture.

“The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism” co-authored by Robert E. Buswell Jr. of UCLA and Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan, has won the prestigious 2015 Dartmouth Medal for outstanding reference work of the American Library Association.