Faculty + Staff Archive

Dr. Lee Todd Miller was honored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for his outstanding contributions to academic medicine. The AAMC presented him with its Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, which recognizes a ...

José Luiz Passos, UCLA professor of Brazilian literature and culture, has been awarded two of the Portuguese-speaking world's most prestigious awards for his novel, "O sonâmbulo amador (The Amateur Sleepwalker)." Passos was awarded the Portugal ...

UCLA's Hammer Museum recently acquired 25 works by familiar and new artists for its contemporary collection. The additions come from Joel Wachs, a former Los Angeles councilman and the current president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual ...

To visually capture life’s unpredictability, UCLA professor Casey Reas creates stunning art using a computer language he co-created.

William Cockrum, an adjunct professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and member of the school's Board of Visitors, has given $5 million to support the school and the Harold and Pauline Price School for Entrepreneurial Studies. The money will ...

Dr. Bradley R. Straatsma, a professor emeritus of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, will receive the Bernardo Streiff Medal at the World Congress of Ophthalmology in Tokyo, Japan, in April of 2014. The Streiff Medal is presented every four years to an ...

Dr. Gary Holland received the Award for Excellence in Education from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. Holland is a professor and ophthalmologist in the Jules Stein Eye Institute. The awards for education are given out based on peer review and ...

Robert Fink, UCLA professor of musicology, was honored with the Outstanding Publication Award from the Popular Music Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory for his article, "Goal Directed Soul: Analyzing Rhythmic Teleology in African American ...

Dr. Lance Fogan, professor of neurology at the Devid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has published a novel, titled "Dings." "Dings" is a medical mystery novel told from the point of view of a mother who must identify the condition responsible for ...

Dr. Joseph L. Demer received the Senior Honor Award at the annual meeting of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Demer delivered several presentations at the conference on topics such as eye care for autistic patients, ...

UCLA Summer Institutes was presented with the Creative and Innovative Award for the Most Outstanding Credit Program from the North American Association of Summer Sessions (NAASS). The association seeks to highlight the importance of curriculum ...

In the spirit of old-time radio, the UCLA Hammer Museum will immerse its guests in a radio mystery play as they walk through the museum. "Behind the Stucco Façade of the Sickle Museum" is being put on by public engagement artist-in-residence...

UCLA geography professor Michael Shin’s online class “Introduction to Geographic Information Systems” draws hundreds of students, who are majoring in many different fields, yet eager to learn about geospatial data without having to leave the comfort...

Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon of UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies will receive the Miriam Matthews Award on Dec. 10. Hunt and Ramon won the award for their work editing the book "Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and ...

Staffer honored for her work to build and reform health care systems abroad Salpy Akaragian, co-founder of the Armenian International Medical Fund (AIM Fund) and director of UCLA’s international nursing programs and nurse credentialing, was...

The UCLA Nathanson Family Resilience Center was awarded a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. This grant will continue the ...

Karen Miller, associate clinical professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, received a 2013 Exceptional Educator Award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology’s Women in Leadership Committee. The award ...

The UCLA Bruins spent Thanksgiving before their victory over USC serving up a feast for about 500 homeless individuals and their families. Their guests receive services from the Veterans Administration and PATH, an organization that...

 Catherine Opie, whose photographs have been exhibited in some of the finest art museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Japan, will soon be showing her newest work to people on the run.

Poet Sabrina Youmans will read from her work, “Pacific Standard Time,” this Thursday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. at UCLA's Powell Library. Youmans, who is on staff in UCLA Athletics as a senior learning specialist supporting student athletes, will be joined...

Cindy Fan, interim vice provost for international studies, has been selected as an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2013-14 academic year. The ACE Fellows Program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen institutions in ...

"Wow, that’s one big fish!" That was the reaction of everyone at UCLA’s Translational Research Imaging Center when a monster fish story became reality in the form of a rare 14-foot, 250-pound oarfish.

Catch a free screening of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” on Sunday, Dec. 8, 11 a.m. at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. Enlivened by the antics of all your favorite Muppets, including Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, Miss...

In Memoriam: Stella Nadelman Krieger, manager of the Fowler Museum Store who made it popular stop because of the unique, handcrafted items from around the world she displayed there, died Nov. 21.