Faculty + Staff Archive

Teresa Roth, coordinator of the medicine residency program for the past 31 years in UCLA's Department of Medicine, is the winner of the 2014 Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Award.

Robert Sbordone, an authority in clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain damage and post-traumatic stress disorder and a former researcher at UCLA’s NeuroPsychiatric Institute, passed away on Aug. 3 in Mission Viejo, California.

Enlist your organizational and interpersonal skills, creativity and flexibility to serve as a project leader or task captain for the sixth annual UCLA Volunteer Day on Monday, Sept. 29.

Former state legislator Sheila Kuehl and former Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver will participate in a Sept. 16 candidates forum hosted by UCLA in partnership with the Los Angeles Business Council and the Century City Chamber of Commerce.

A team of UCLA researchers has received a $2-million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to explore nanoscale 2DL materials that have breakthrough potential in electronics, optoelectronics, bioelectronics and energy conversion and storage.

For the sixth year in a row, the UCLA School of Law has been named one of the Top 10 Best Law Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine.

Stacy J. Park, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a two-year, $80,000 grant by the Prevent Cancer Foundation to study the role e-cigarettes might play in the development of lung cancer.

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UCLA, USC, Caltech are collaborating in creating a National Science Foundation-funded center to translate scientific and engineering research into technology for the marketplace.

Back by popular demand, Playwrights' Arena will present “Golden Tongues 2” —staged readings of plays from Spain's Golden Age, presented in contemporary English adaptations by L.A. playwrights — at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

A project that began as a release from demanding careers has become a successful band, Help the Doctor, complete with a fan base, a sold-out performance at the House of Blues and gigs for charity.

Madeline Brozen will focus on transforming street infrastructure to be more accommodating to pedestrians and cyclists.

Urban planning professor's articles were among the most cited and acknowledged by peers.

As a way to thank UCLA’s dedicated, hard-working campus staff, UCLA Dining Services is inviting staff members to lunch at a discounted rate from Sept. 1-5.

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an ultra-compact X-ray free electron laser.

Dr. Joseph K. Perloff, the founding director of the Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, died Aug. 18 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., of complications from coronary artery disease. He was 89.

Photographer Catherine Opie and ethnomusicologist Daniel Neuman made the Art Career Project's list of “15 Noteworthy Art Professors in Los Angeles.”

Susan Dietz, five-time Tony nominee and producer of such Broadway hits as “Fela!,” “The Little Dog Laughed” and “Mothers and Sons,” will be coming to UCLA in February to teach an immersive five-week course on the fundamentals of producing on- and off-Broadway shows.

Dr. Peter Lawrence was recently named president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Geoffrey Mess, a professor of mathematics who made important contributions to topology and geometric group theory, has died after an extended illness. He was 54.

On August 22 at 2 p.m., Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds and awareness for lifesaving childhood cancer research. The goal is to raise $5,000.

Sociology professor Judith A. Seltzer has been elected president of the Population Association of America for 2015. She will serve as president-elect in 2015 and as president in 2016.

Joyce Appleby's “Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination” is in the running to win the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.

“Street Muse: Kenya” will screen on Aug. 21 at the UCLA Fowler Museum, followed by conversation with director and star.

Employees still adjusting to the recent flooding enjoy eating, relaxing and dancing at the 10th annual thank you celebration for staff from every campus department.