Faculty + Staff Archive

Two UCLA faculty members Michael E. Jung, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Asad Madni, a distinguished adjunct professor of electrical engineering, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.

UCLA Anderson Associate Professor of Management and Organizations Jenessa Shapiro  is one of five early-career academics to be recognized by the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology with the SAGE Young Scholars Award.

A new Metro bus line will use the new I-405 carpool lanes and could result in faster commutes to and from UCLA.

Daniel Blumstein, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will do a talk at Nerd Night L.A. on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 7:45 p.m. at The Mint, 6010 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will be closing out its series, “Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema,” with the screening of “California Indian” on Monday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum.

Kathryn Kietzman, project director of the “Helping Older-Adults Maintain IndependencE” (HOME) Study, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Santa Monica Commission for the Senior Community. HOME, which is based at the UCLA Center for Health Research.

Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute have received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Wharton Research Data Services, one of the world’s leading data research institutions, has awarded the Wharton-WRDS Best Paper Award in Empirical Research to two UCLA Anderson professors, Daniel Andrei and Bruce Carlin.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired objects that represent the work of world-renowned painter and muralist Judith Baca, a professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

Meet and learn from tech experts from all across campus at UCLA's Bruin Tech-a-Thon, a free mini-conference on Thursday, Dec. 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Math Sciences building.   A wide range of topics will be discussed in 30-minute presentations

UCLA Film and Television Archive will showcase the Australian film, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project on Thursday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm. at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater.

A series of information-packed newsletters published by students working for UCLA's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has eased the arduous search for research funding for faculty.

A team of researchers led by UCLA professor Sean Young is among the first of five recipients of a new University of California research grant intended to spur discoveries with direct societal impacts.

Learn about the complex interrelatedness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in a presentation at UCLA on Thursday, Dec. 11, 4-6 p.m. at Charles E. Young Research Library, Room 11360.

John Goodlad, former dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education from 1967 to 1983, died in Seattle on Nov. 29 at age 94. He was the author of a seminal book on the largest study of U.S. schools ever conducted at the time.

Lokubanda Tillakaratne has spent more than three decades helping his former village in many different ways. Now he's published a book of facts, figures, interviews and personal recollections of life there.

Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek of UCLA's Department of Electrical Engineering has received funding from NASA to study new coding and signal processing mechanisms to help overcome unreliability in memories used in deep space applications.

Greg Carman, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Marvel Comics luminaries Stan Lee and Roy Thomas will join director Kevin Smith on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., at the Hammer Museum for a discussion of the venerable publisher’s long history.

The acclaimed documentary 'Hoop Dreams' (1994) screens on Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater, with an appearance by director Steve James.

In response to the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill disaster, UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Science professors, Jeroen Molemaker and James McWillams, have been awarded $2 million by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.

Students found special treats decking their dining halls this week when the bakery team delivered gingerbread versions of UCLA’s Royce Hall, Powell Library, Kerckhoff Hall and Haines Hall.

Lillie Hsu and Dion Raymond have long-standing “heart-centered connections” to UCLA. The newly-created position of Discrimination Prevention Officer is a key component to remedying bias, improving campus climate and strengthening UCLA’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.

Jayanti Tambe has been named executive director, UCLA Early Care and Education, effective Feb. 1, 2015.

Candice Levy, a UCLA lecturer in Jewish Studies, will discuss ‘Unjust Suffering and the Afterlife’ for the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 4-5:30 p.m.