Faculty + Staff Archive

Professor Kal Raustiala has been appointed faculty director of the International Education Office in his capacity as associate vice provost for international studies.   The IEO is the administrative home for the Education Abroad Program, Summ

The UCLA Academic Personnel Office recently announced the recipients of the Unit 18 professional development awards for 2013-14. The awards support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of lecturers, officially known as Unit 18 ...

Ninez Ponce, a leading expert on racial and ethnic disparities in health as well as evidence-based survey research, and the principal investigator of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), has been appointed as an associate director of the ...

Susan Babey, a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and co-director of its Chronic Disease Program, has been invited to participate in the Physical Activity Technical Advisory Committee for the California Strategic ...

Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill, director of emergency medical services and director of the EMS and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowships at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Emergency ...

Ian Holloway, professor of social welfare, has been awarded two grants to study sexual risk behavior among populations of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Los Angeles County and the Dominican Republic. In a $25,000 award ...

UCLA's Volunteer Leadership Program sent a busload of students, alumni, and staff to pitch in at Mark Twain Middle School in Venice/Mar Vista and Topanga Lookout in Calabasas.

The Lemann Foundation of Brazil has renewed funding for faculty travel grants to visit top Brazilian universities and research institutions in 2014.

Filmmaker’s work inducted into National Film Registry   Billy Woodberry, an independent filmmaker and a lighting/grip technician for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, recently had the honor of seeing his 1984 film,...

UCLA staff member Kathy Wyer and Elodie Lorenz, a fellow volunteer with the Golden Retriever Club of Greater Los Angeles Rescue, take care of Roofus, a dog who was born blind and with foreshortened front legs.

UCLA's TIE-INS Program, which places children of UCLA faculty and staff at public schools near campus, provides enrichment and intervention programs for the entire community.

Members of the UCLA women's soccer team, winners of the 2013 NCAA championship, were honored Friday by the Los Angeles City Council. The team added No. 110 to UCLA's all-time best NCAA championship total.

Denise Mann recently edited a book that examines the post-network television industry's experiments with interactive storytelling.

John Caldwell delivered the keynote lecture at European Communication Research and Education Association's (ECREA) annual conference. The meeting took place at Aarhus University in Copenhagen from Oct. 24-26.  Caldwell is a professor at the UCLA ...

Support local and responsible growers in the most delicious and healthy way possible by visiting the farmers market on Bruin Plaza on Wednesday from 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

UC’s Retirement Review gives UC employees their Retirement Readiness Score.

University of California President Janet Napolitano will begin sharing monthly email messages with faculty, staff and students to help foster ongoing dialogue with the UC community. The monthly emails, the first of which is slated to go out...

UCLA has crushed USC and 10 other competitors in the Pac-12 Fitness Challenge for the past two years, earning the title of fittest college in the Pac-12. This year’s challenge starts Monday, Feb. 24 and runs through Feb. 28. All Bruins are...

One of Lee's photo subjects was Jimmy Kirikatani, a formerly homeless artist and Japanese internment camp internee. 

The outstanding young professors are among 126 scientists and scholars in the U.S. and Canada to receive the prestigious award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Enjoy a mix of music both modern and traditional when international Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) singer Sarah Aroeste performs a free concert, presented by the Los Angeles Sephardic Music Festival, at the Fowler Museum. On Wednesday, March 5, 7 p.m.,...

Fourteen?  That’s how often the average U.S. resident moves in a lifetime?   The number astonished a group of visiting high school English teachers from Brazil, who also were surprised to learn of another number that flashed onscreen...

Back in the day, love potions had numbers.   Today, they have algorithms.   In 2012, UCLA Ph.D. student Chris McKinlay spent most of his time working on his dissertation dealing with high-dimensional clustering. In his spare time, he...