Faculty + Staff Archive

Leisy Abrego, assistant professor in UCLA's Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, has published a new book, which examines the nature of families that cross El Salvadoran and United States boundaries."Sacrificing Families: Navigating ...

UCLA will honor John Wooden’s 1973 UCLA NCAA championship men’s basketball team on Sunday, March 2, at 6 p.m. during UCLA’s final home game of the season. The team will be honored at a pre-game reception and halftime ceremony as...

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talked to a sold-out Royce Hall audience Wednesday about the difficulty of creating effective foreign policy in the face of rapid technological change and growing global interdependence....

“I’ve always been interested in carrying out experiments to try to understand how things work,” said professor Richard Kaner, who knew from childhood that he wanted to become a scientist.

The proposal seeks to build on the increasing popularity of the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies by converting it to a full academic department.

Are you a UCLA employee interested in sending your child to a great neighborhood school close to campus? Then apply for the 2013-14 school year in UCLA's Together In Education In Neighborhood Schools (TIE-INS) program by the March 1 deadline. All...

Meditate, practice yoga, laugh, play and change your life during UCLA Recreation’s Stress Less Week. On Meditation Monday, Jan. 27, 12-1 p.m. join a guided meditation at the Pauley Pavilion Club, or movement meditation with Tai Chi at UNEX...

"Reclaiming the Right-of-Way," a comprehensive toolkit for creating small, urban "parklets" from parking spaces, alleyways and other underutilized spaces, will receive a National Planning Achievement Award for Best Practice, presented by the American ...

James Lockhart, a UCLA emeritus professor who was regarded as one of the most original, accomplished scholars in the field of early Latin American history, died Jan. 17 in Bakersfield surrounded by his family.

Associate professor of finance Andrea Eisfeldt of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and co-author Dimitris Papanikolaouk of the Kellogg School of Management have received the 2013 Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of ...

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, adjunct professor of ethnomusicology, filmmaker and specialist in Indian music, has been awarded a 2013 award for her "Contribution to the Cause of Indian Music by an Overseas-Resident Personality." The award will be formally ...

Rebecca Allen, professor of design media arts, has been selected by the editors of Fast Company magazine to be one of their Most Creative People in Business 1000. "We have curated what we believe is the ultimate club of business thought-leaders," ...

The UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery presented 2014 Luminary Awards Wednesday to honorees at an inaugural event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Professor and department chair Dr. Gerald Berke and singer...

UCLA will play host to "Big River and Beyond" at Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, Feb. 1, 9:15-11:30 a.m. Cast members of the Broadway revival of "Big River," with help from UCLA students and faculty, will perform selected numbers from the Tony...

The University of California Office of the President day announced Wednesday the opening of the application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the regents. The position's term runs July 2014 through June 2016. Applications will be...

Kimberly Freeman, an alumna who received her M.B.A. in 2002, is UCLA Anderson School’s new assistant dean for diversity initiatives and community relations, Dean Judy Olian announced recently. Freeman comes to Anderson from the Southern California Gas ...

William Schniedewind, a UCLA professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures, recently published his fifth book, a look at the connection between Jewish faith and culture and the Hebrew language. "A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins through the ...

UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh’s blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, has partnered with the Washington Post. The group blog, which was co-founded in 2002 by Eugene and his brother, Alexander (“Sasha”) Volokh, will now be hosted by the newspaper. ...

The Office of the President (OP) is launching a new website on Feb. 6 that aims to make life easier for faculty, staff and retirees.   The new site, called UCnet, is the fruit of more than two years of development by OP’s communications...

Charles Alexander, director of UCLA's Academic Advancement Program and associate vice provost for student diversity, spoke Jan. 14 to a crowd of well-wishers at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Academic Advancement Learning Pavilion,...

Professor John Villasenor, an electrical engineer in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Luskin School of Public Affairs, is a widely published writer on the intersection of technology and public policy.

Mark your calendar for the Small Business Resource Fair on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Ackerman Grand Ballroom, to acquaint yourself with a wide variety of small vendors — from printers to travel service providers — who conduct business...

José Luiz Passos — “Zé” to his friends and students — is one of the rising new stars of Brazilian literature. A professor of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures at UCLA, Passos has published two novels...

Jacob Bortnik, assistant researcher in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, is part of a large international effort to study the sun and its connection to the Earth's climate and space weather. The project, "Variability of the Sun ...