Faculty + Staff Archive

UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck is joining a team of reporters, analysts and other contributors who will be posting to a new website on politics and policy in The New York Times that will launch in the spring.

Therapy dogs dressed in costumes made a special delivery to sick kids at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA: homemade Valentines and heartfelt good wishes. Scout, Daisy, Paco, Finn and their owners, all volunteers with UCLA's...

Friedlander, a pioneering Holocaust historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, will donate a portion of his share of the $1 million award to UCLA.

Jeffery Averill, who provides design oversight for all UCLA capital projects, has been honored for his contributions to the profession.

Dr. Charles Brunicardi recently produced a debut album of his original folk/country music, "Where Sunset Meets the Beach," which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in music.

Celebrate Valentine's Day by listening to traditional love songs from the Renaissance through the ages to contemporary times. The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the UCLA Library are hosting a free concert by UCLA Sounds Friday,...

What’s really happening when you click "I accept" on a website? According to the documentary film "Terms and Conditions May Apply," those clicks unknowingly generate a cloud of data that others can access to learn everything from...

Los Angeles transportation officials are alerting I-405 and regional freeway motorists of an 80-hour northbound I-405 freeway closure operation in the Sepulveda Pass this Presidents' Day weekend, Feb. 14 to 18.    The closure consists...

UCLA Community School, in collaboration with Center X’s Exploring Computer Science initiative, has been selected to receive a 2014 Google RISE (Roots in Science and Engineering) Award. The school, which serves the Koreatown/Pico-Union community of Los ...

Children participate in the grand opening of the Children’s Heart Center at Mattel Children’s Hospital on Jan. 23. The center provides world-class medical care in a warm and caring environment for children with known or suspected heart...

Akhil Gupta, director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia and professor of anthropology, has been awarded the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize for 2014 for his book, "Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Poverty in India" ...

Walk and win in "I Heart Walking," presented by UCLA Recreation. Starting today and continuing through Thursday, Feb. 13, join fellow Bruins in lunchtime walks to get refreshed and improve your health. Walks begin each day at 12:10 p.m. and 12:15...

Dr. Eugene Washington, vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, has been honored by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute for his service as the first chair of the institute's board of ...

When Mark Speare was asked a year and a half ago whether he thought managers in health sciences might want to take time out of their busy schedules to take a 10-week class at UCLA to learn basic Spanish, the chief human resources officer for...

The UCLA professor of public health and psychiatry answered a few off-the-cuff questions in the Zocalo green room before a panel discussion on how Angelenos eat.

Center for the Art of Performance director Edmunds named 'catalyst in residence' at Pew Center Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, became The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s first...

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda will talk about his nation's recovery from the genocide of 1994, its subsequent economic advances and future challenges at a Fe. 12 dinner cohosted by UCLA's Center for World Health and the Los Angeles World...

Richard Roll, distinguished professor and the Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance, is one of three winners of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards. The awards are made by the Journal of Portfolio Management and named after Peter Bernstein, who ...

Demanding careers… relationship problems… financial struggles … family strife, not to mention the hour you just spent stuck in traffic — to be sure, life can be stressful. But with evidence continuing to mount that carrying all of that mental...

Join UCLA football coach Jim Mora, his coaching staff and the UCLA football team Wednesday, Feb. 5, to celebrate the 2014 Signing Class at Pauley Pavilion. Last season, UCLA had six freshman all-Americans, three of whom topped nearly every...

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering, received a National Science Foundation Career Award for his research, "Microscale Magnetic Devices for Next Generation Coherent X-Ray Sources." The research sets out a scientific process ...

Aydogan Ozcan, associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and colleagues have been acknowledged for their paper, "Detection and Spatial Mapping of Mercury ...

Johanna Drucker, a professor in the Department of Information Studies in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS)  has published a new book, "What Is?: Nine Epistemological Essays" (University of Houston-Victoria Cuneiform ...

Jorge Torres, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant by the American Cancer Society. These grants support innovative cancer research across a wide range of disciplines to ...