Faculty + Staff Archive

If also approved by two Academic Senate bodies, the proposal would require all College undergraduates to complete a course focused on diversity.

UCLA officials went downtown on Wednesday to recognize campus programs that serve communities throughout Los Angeles County and, together with volunteer ambassadors, met with local officials to discuss UCLA's public service efforts in each of their respective districts.

The app was developed to better serve magazine readers in the digital age and bring them the very best of UCLA arts, athletics, entertainment and discovery.

If you’re enrolled in UC’s Supplemental Disability plan and have a 7-day or 30-day waiting period, you’ll be paying a higher premium in 2015. But you can lessen the impact of rising rates by selecting a longer waiting period.

UC Human Resources is making available four new videos in English and Spanish to help you understand the basics about your medical benefits.

UCLA education professor Sylvia Hurtado’s research on the effect of campus climate on student academic progress as well as on student and faculty retention has caught the attention of many in higher education.

The UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hope to increase the diversity of faculty by attracting high-caliber researchers and providing them with the professional development training and opportunities to help them compete for highly selective tenure-track positions.

Bruce Whiteman, librarian emeritus of UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and a Canadian poet and writer, returns to the Clark to read from his work on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 4 p.m.

UCLA professor Peter Narins has been elected president of the International Society for Neuroethology. Narins is a distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, as well as ecology and evolutionary.

UCLA professor of history Janice Reiff, immediate past chair of UCLA's Academic Senate, will serve as the 2014-15 senate–administration liaison for online education.

UCLA Campus Human Resources is presenting Open Enrollment information sessions for faculty and staff, Nov. 3-21.

Kathleen McGarry, professor and chair of UCLA's department of economics, has been named a 2014-15 visiting scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's oldest and most recognized academic honor society.

Rejeana Mathis, 2014-25 president of UCLA Staff Assembly, has led hundreds of staff and faculty in dozens of classes, workshops and retreats in her role as a management development coordinator with Campus Human Resources.

Suzanne Shu, an associate professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, made the shift from electrical engineer to decision-making expert

Lynn Vavreck, UCLA professor of political science and communication studies, speaks on “The Midterm Elections: Turnout, Undecided Voters, and those Ads you Love to Hate" on Thursday, Oct. 23, 3 - 4:30 p.m. at UCLA's Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360.

UCLA students, faculty and staff rolled away with 120 free bicycles and a wide assortment of build-your-own-bike parts on Bike (Re)Cycling Day,  Sunday, Oct. 19.

Dr. James Economou, a tumor immunologist and UCLA’s vice chancellor for research, received one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Stability is the watchword for this fall’s Open Enrollment. All of the current medical plans will be available in 2015, with a few benefits enhancements and no major changes.

Schoenberg Hall, 5:30 - 8 p.m. I Learn America: Screening & Discussion Featuring Filmmaker Jean-Michel Dissard Join us for a screening of I Learn America: One High School, One School Year, Five New Americans. The film follows five immigrant teenagers ...

Results of a recent survey of UC faculty, staff and retirees at all locations in the system indicated a high degree of satisfaction with employee medical plans.

uHearingTest, which lets people self-administer hearing tests, won an award in the Code for the Mission contest, which aimed to translate UCLA researchers’ expertise into public benefit.

UCLA professor of education Sandra Graham, who has spent her career studying the effects of inequity in schools, is now having a direct influence on carrying out UCLA’s commitment to equity and diversity on this campus.

The National Science Foundation has funded UCLA research astronomer R. Michael Rich and an international team to use the world’s largest camera to map the central bulge of the Milky Way.

Demonstrations, film screenings, lectures and a special dinner are on the menu for campus consumers Oct. 22 - 24 as UCLA joins thousands of other organizations nationwide, including several UC campuses, to celebrate Food Day.

UCLA professor emeritus of music Roger Bourland, a renowned composer and musician, will premiere his grand opera,  “La Paloma y el Ruiseñor,” at the Teatro Angela Peralta in Mazatlán, Mexico, on Nov. 14.