Faculty + Staff Archive

The University of California has become the first major higher education institution in the country to clearly define digital privacy both for individuals and the university as a whole, and to establish guiding principles and a framework to address these issues.

Patricia Oliver, director of nutrition services for the UCLA Health System, received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Association for Healthcare Foodservice.

UCLA faculty and graduate students with research interests in Mexico will soon be benefiting from a closer relationship with that country, its government and institutions.

Head to UCLA's Hammer Museum tonight, June 16, to celebrate James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' at the Hammer's fifth annual Bloomsday.

UCLA faculty members Federica Raia and Mario Deng will publish the book 'Relational Medicine: Personalizing Modern Healthcare - The Practice of High-Tech Medicine as a Relational Act' this summer.

To help University of California employees continue to meet their retirement and financial goals, the UC Insurance Company Contract (ICC) Fund will be merged with the UC Savings Fund, effective June 30.

UCLA experts in geriatric medicine, elder law and other fields help prepare you for the daunting task of caring for an elderly family member, June 20.

Frank Chang, the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and chair of the department, has been selected to receive the 2014 John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers’ Council.

Robert Steinberg, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics, died on May 25. He was 92.

John Villasenor, professor of electrical engineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, provided expert testimony at a U.S. congressional hearing.

Getting into Neil Garg's course "was like ‘The Hunger Games,'" said one student. "I know people who waited two years to get in. People have celebratory dances when they learn they’re enrolled."

If you park in UCLA Parking Structure 4, 7  or 8, you may have noticed the elevator doors urging you to take the stairs, a clever message from UCLA Transportation.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Luskin Senior Fellow and L.A. Times editor-at-large Jim Newton assess Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first year in office in the 'Thinking L.A.' UCLA/Zocalo Public Square event.

Anastassia Alexandrova, an assistant professor in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.

UCLA professor Mike Rose of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies discusses his book, 'The Mind at Work,' which was recently re-published as a 10th anniversary edition.

UCLA's Fowler Museum will screen 'Narco Cultura,' a documentary about folk saints and the drug war in Mexico and the U.S., on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m.

UCLA professors Jody Heymann and Fernando Torres-Gil contributed to the book, “The Upside of Aging: How Long Life is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy, and Purpose.”

Assistant professor Chandra Ford will lead a $1.5-million study by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Kaiser Permanente to examine factors preventing HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment among racial and ethnic minorities and people 50 and older.

Leobardo Estrada, an associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been elected 2014-15 vice chair/chair-elect of the UCLA Academic Senate.

Professor Donald Neuen, longtime director of choral conducting and choral studies at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, led his final concert on June 7 at Royce Hall.

UCLA Staff Assembly's newly elected Executive Board members take office on July 1, 2014.

Sarna, who holds the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Chair, will serve a one-year term while Dean Courtney Lyder is on leave.

Employee contributions to the University of California retirement plan will increase on July 1, 2014.

Betsy Metzgar, assistant director for scheduling and information systems in the UCLA Events Office, has worked at UCLA for 30 years and commuted via the UCLA Vanpool for the last 23.

UCLA staff members Henry Charles and Teresa Roth have have been selected by the Staff Assembly to receive the Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Awards.