Faculty + Staff Archive

Each have been honored for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

UCLA Health Auxiliary's Adopt-A-Family Program helps brighten the holidays of patients at UCLA’s medical centers and their families facing severe illness and extraordinary financial challenges.

UCLA professor emeritus John Hawkins delivered keynote addresses on issues in higher education in during a recent visit to Asia.

From poultry to pies and sugar to soil, UC scientists are uncovering insights across the food spectrum that can make your holidays healthier, happier and more mindful.

Dr. Amy Rosenman has been installed as the new president of the American Urogynecologic Society, the nation's largest professional scientific organization devoted to the field of pelvic floor disorders.

Lisa Snyder, a modeling and visualization expert at UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Implementation grant to develop 3D content software VSim.

Dr. Jeremy M. Blumberg, an assistant professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and surgical director of renal transplantation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, reminisces about a past Thanksgiving when he was asked to recover the organs of an infant who had drowned.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA Law’s David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor, has received a three-year appointment as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.

Rita Effros was installed as president of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. Efrros is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

UCLA Law professor Gerald P. López has received the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his commitment to public stewardship.

UC’s annual Open Enrollment, an opportunity for faculty and staff to make changes to their 2015 medical plan and other benefits, ends on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

A team of UCLA researchers have been awarded 83 million core hours of computing time on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to study the origins and evolution of the Earth’s magnetic field.

'Sounds of the Season' will be presented by the UCLA choral program on Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m., at Schoenberg Hall.

UCLA is marking the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 20 by introducing a new technology tool to help smokers seen in the UCLA Health System quit for good.

UCLA professor Kathleen McHugh has been appointed as the associate dean for diversity and equity at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Cardiologist Leigh Reardon’s experiences as a child open-heart surgery patient taught him an empathy that creates a uniquely open relationship with his patients.

Ralph H. Turner, a UCLA sociologist who played a founding role in the development of the field of collective behavior and social movements, died April 5 in Los Angeles at the age of 94.

UCLA faculty and staff are invited to an information session on Dec. 1 to learn about cloud computing services newly available through Information Technology Services.

Mona Simpson, professor of English and one of UCLA’s most celebrated faculty authors, has published a new novel, "Casebook," elucidating the inner workings of a family in Santa Monica, California.

If 2,200 Bruins donated to any of UCLA’s funds prior to the UCLA-USC football game Nov. 22, alumni Karren Ganstwig and Howard Welinsky pledged to give an additional $100,000 to UCLA.

Peter Thomas Dalis, who served as director of athletics at UCLA for 19 years, died Saturday, Nov.15, at his home in Pacific Palisades due to complications from multiple myeloma.

In her new book, “Resilience and Aging,” UCLA geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Helen Lavretsky says a person’s negative reaction to stress can be offset by enhanced resilience — the ability to bounce back from adversity.

The Center for Middle East Development will honor Leonard Binder, a scholar of Middle Eastern politics.

This year, UCLA's annual food drive is also part of a competition to donate more than the university's cross-town rival.

Michael Eselun, certified interfaith chaplain for the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, explores "It could be worse," a common coping strategy for dealing with cancer.