Faculty + Staff Archive

A team of community leaders and researchers from UCLA and RAND led by principal investigator Dr. Kenneth Wells has received the 2014 Joint Team Science Award for a 10-year project to improve depression care.

UCLA Professor Brenda Stevenson's "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the Los Angeles Riots" has been named the best book on race relations published in 2013.

UCLA is looking for volunteers to interpret Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Russian, Samoan and Spanish for the 2015 Special Olympics Invitational to be held in June 2014.

Vicki Steiner, a reference librarian at the UCLA School of Law Library, has been named the 2014 Librarian of the Year by the UCLA Division of the Librarians of the University of California.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA is launching a flat-rate $25 ticket price for all UCLA faculty and staff, effective immediately.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health will mark National Public Health Week 2014 with a series of student-organized events on campus as part of the American Public Health Association’s annual celebration of the role of public health and prevention.

Becoming a formal department would bolster UCLA's scholarship and opportunities in African American studies.

UCLA law professor Katherine Stone studies the erosion of the middle class and the changing nature of employment.

Professor Thomas Smith of the UCLA Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology will hold a lecture about the Center's efforts of conservation in Central Africa.

Each year, UCLA staff and faculty touch the lives of thousand of people through the annual campaign for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

UCLA staff members enhance their skills, advance their careers in year-long program from Campus Human Resources.

Applications for the 2014 Larry L. Sautter Award honoring innovation in information technology are now being accepted through May 16, 2014.

California Casualty, which offers preferred rates to UC employees, is lowering insurance rates for California homeowners and renters, effective April 1, 2014.

Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, has published a new book, "The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850."  

UCLA professor Edward Alpers' new book, "The Indian Ocean in World History," explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA professor of law, has been honored with the 2014 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

UCLA associate professor Katsuya Hirano's new book, "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan," explores the evolution of Japan's radical transformation.

Mona Simpson looks back on her precarious financial status at UC Berkeley and her beginnings as a writer.

UCLA animation professor Chuck Sheetz recently directed an episode of "The Simpsons," which aired on Fox on March 16.

Tony Chan, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics and president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Ira Kurtz, a UCLA professor of medicine, has received a $3 million gift from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation to fund research on the structural properties of key proteins in the kidney that affect its function in health and disease.

Dr. Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the UCLA Longevity Center, was appointed president-elect of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.

Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA professor of statistics and computer science, and Alan Yuille, UCLA professor of statistics, have won the 2013 PAMI Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award.

University of California President Janet Napolitano and staff employees from across the UC system will have a one-hour online conversation about campus climate survey results, compensation, benefits and more.

UCLA's Excellence in Leadership Award is given each year by Campus Human Resources in partnership with UCLA's Administrative Management Group.