Faculty + Staff Archive

The complex task of introducing 9,000 incoming freshmen and transfer students to UCLA's campus and culture is a yearlong job for Roxanne Neal and her staff.

Back by popular demand after sold-out houses last summer, the Oscar Wilde classic, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” will be performed at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in five performances by the Chalk Repertory Theater, July 25-August 2.

Victoria Steele, who served for close to nine years as head of UCLA Library Special Collections before taking a post at the New York Public Library, will return to UCLA in August as interim head librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

UCLA’s Hammer Museum and KCRW are teaming up to present Made in L.A. Music, four nights of free, live, Los Angeles-based music in the museum courtyard over four weeks.

The UCLA Library system has established new unified loan periods to make it easier for UCLA and UC faculty, staff and students to manage items checked out from the Library’s circulating collections.

Clarissa Byrd brings comfort and understanding to children who are experiencing stress or trauma in the hospital’s emergency department.

This weekend marks the launch at UCLA's Billy Hammer Theater of “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary,” a month-long pageant of weekend showings of Brazilian film.

When confronted with a difficult job, Sam Houston Huffman always looks for a better way. As a facilities mechanic working in UCLA residence halls, he's been able to devise new ways to make costly, time-consuming repairs easier, cheaper and safer to complete.

UCLA professor emerita Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei will be honored by the Association for Asian Performance accomplishments that include her role as a 'founding mother' of Asian theater scholarship.

Water researchers from UCLA, the Natural History Museum and elsewhere are helping the region understand issues, history and possible solutions related to the drought. A discussion series featuring panels of experts begins July 10.

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, an annual event presented by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, features four free concerts this year.

On Thursday, July 10 at the UCLA Hammer Museum, The Do-Over and Innovative Leisure present De Lux, The Do-Over mystery guest DJs and KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer.

Kligman is a renowned expert on Jewish music, from sacred liturgical traditions to contemporary popular music. He joined the UCLA faculty July 1.

Dino Di Carlo, associate professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is the recipient of the 2014 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award from Analytical Chemistry and the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.

Asad Madni, distinguished adjunct professor of engineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received the first honorary professorship ever given by the Technical University of Crete.

Jackie Reynolds, chief information officer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, has received the 2014 Excellence in Leadership (EXCEL) Award.

UCLA Fowler Museum's KidsMUSE summer camp, 'Dig It,' invites children to explore nature, ecology, art and conservation.

Allison Carruth, associate professor of English and affiliate of UCLA's Institute of Environment & Sustainability, has been awarded a $185,000 grant from ArtPlace America to support "Play the LA River."

The mood on campus changes over the summer. It's hard to put it into words, so let's try it with photos.

Professor Sabeeha Merchant has been appointed director of the UCLA-Department of Energy (UCLA-DOE) Institute, which carries out research in bioenergy, structural biology, genomics and proteomics, consistent with the research mission of the U.S. Department of Energy.

The University of California wants to know what you think about your university-sponsored medical plan. UC Human Resources has launched its annual medical plan satisfaction survey and invites feedback from all faculty, staff and retirees enrolled in a ...

Professor Richard Roll, Distinguished Professor of Finance and the Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Ph.D. Students.

Amjad Ezzour, a student affairs officer in the Fully Employed MBA Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Abraham Ackerman Staff Excellence Award.

Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, presented a plenary lecture titled, “Global Citizenship Education: Hyper Globalist, Skeptic and Transformationist Agendas,” at the 2014 conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education