Faculty + Staff Archive

Attorneys Lane Dilg and Ina Bryant have joined the UCLA Office of Legal Affairs as senior campus counsel.

UCLA engineering faculty members Yang Yang and Richard Kaner have been named 2015 fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Linda McDermott, night shift lead nurse in labor and delivery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, has spent nearly three decades assisting couples when their 'big day' occurs at night.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations welcomes best-selling author James Mann to discuss his latest book.

Dr. Richard Jackson, a professor of environmental health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame.

'Fragments of Extinction: An Environmental Sound-Art Project on the Acoustic Biodiversity of Rainforests' will be presented on Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m. at the California NanoSystems Institute.

Professor Jonathan Furner has assumed the post of chair of information studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Benjamin Nathan will join UCLA Health Sciences as the chief information officer for the David Geffen School of Medicine, effective on May 4.  Nathan will provide the vision and leadership for the administration, research and educational information systems of the medical school.

UCLA Recreation presents its annual "I Heart Walking" Feb. 9 - 12. Walk campus routes with your fellow Bruins and get a free T-shirt. 

As a part of its series on the films of DeMille, the UCLA Film and Television Archive screens “Union Pacific” Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Join fellow Bruins, family and friends on Sunday, March 8, for the 2nd Annual UCLA True Bruin Move and Groove 5K.

Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba of the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies will discuss her new book on Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m. in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 144 Haines Hall.

Advance tickets are just $2 for UCLA Women’s Basketball's 9th Annual Play 4 Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game versus Arizona State on Friday, Feb 20, 7 p.m., at Pauley Pavilion.

Professor Philip Kellman of the UCLA Department of Psychology was invited by the White House to participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C.

UCLA Musicology will open the floodgates of Bruin faculty and student musical talent Thursday, Jan. 29 with “UCLA Sings!” The free concert launches a two-day conference.

The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the UC regents is now open. Staff members will have until March 6 to submit an application. The new staff advisor will serve on the Board of Regents from July 2015 through June 2017.

Renowned UCLA transplant surgeon Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil has been awarded the Hospital Physician Leadership Award by the Los Angeles County Medical Association.  

UCLA Transportation’s focus on alternative transportation and success in reducing traffic and emissions at UCLA won an award from the California Environmental Protection Agency

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Distinguished Professor Ali Mosleh, the Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the first director of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA.

UCLA Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was among eight faculty members in the school who were featured in Education Week’s annual “Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.”

Sarah Stein has been awarded a National Jewish Book Award for her work as the co-author of "Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950." Stein was honored in the category of Sephardic culture and was given the Mimi S. Frank Award. 

Join the UCLA Department of History for a panel discussion on World War I in the Fowler Museum's Lenart Auditorium on January 27 at 7 p.m. UCLA's James Gelvin, Ivan T. Berend and Geoffrey Symcox will be speaking.

UCLA History professor Brenda Stevenson, has received the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism from Womensenews.org.