Faculty + Staff Archive

Tamara Levitz, professor of musicology in the UCLA Department of Musicology, received the Otto Kinkeldey award recently at the national meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in Pittsburgh. The Otto Kinkeldey award is society's highest ...

Dr. John Froines, professor emeritus of environmental health sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded the prestigious 2013 Ramazzini Award for his outstanding efforts in occupational and environmental health research. The ...

The Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations recently announced the selection of Morphosis Architects, founded and led by AIA Gold Medalist and UCLA architecture and urban design distinguished professor Thom Mayne, to design the ...

Todd and Randy Katz have donated $2 million dollars to UCLA to establish the Ronald A. Katz Center for Collaborative Military Medicine as a way to honor their father’s passion. Ronald A. Katz (pictured left) had spearheaded the founding of UCLA's ...

When Alicia Escalante, a parent at Baldwin Park High School, was asked why she thought Jesús Gutiérrez, Jr., was named teacher of the year in Los Angeles County, she broke into a huge smile tinged with incredulity — as if someone...

Two professors from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television were recognized at the 24th Annual Ovation Awards, presented by the LA Stage Alliance, a non-profit devoted to the strengthening and appreciation of theater in the greater Los Angeles ...

  A team of more than 200 UCLA health professionals helped staff a free health care clinic last week that provided vital basic medical services to approximately 3,000 uninsured and underserved people in Los Angeles.   They were among the...

Dr. Karim Chamie, an assistant professor of urology at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named as a recipient of Stop Cancer's Research Career Development Award (RCDA). Stop Cancer’s award comes in the form of a research grant ...

The exhibit "Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950" is being co-curated by professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Art Russell Ferguson and is on display at Hirshhorn Museum and Scultpure Garden in Washington, D.C. Media range from ...

Navy veteran Daniel Moynihan is a first-year M.B.A. student at UCLA Anderson School of Management and says that the school is helping him translate the skills he developed and used during his military career to potential civilian employers. Photos...

UCLA TFT grad student Rocco Pucillo, center, flanked by film producer John Goldwyn, left, and his father, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., president of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation. Monday was a good night for UCLA Theater, Film and Television's Rocco...

Beginning Friday, Nov. 1, scholarly articles authored by faculty members at UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Francisco and appearing in scholarly publications are now being made widely available at no cost to the public. All faculty who are members of the...

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society selected professor King-Ning Tu for the 2013 EMPMD John Bardeen Award. This award is presented to a leader in the field of electronic materials who has made outstanding contributions within the field. A ...

Bruce S. Dunn, the Nippon Sheet Glass Company Professor of Material Science and Engineering at UCLA, has been elected to the World Academy of Ceramics in recognition of his outstanding achievements in sol-gel materials and the development of new ...

Rita Effros has been elected president of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging.  Efrros is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the David Geffen ...

Alberto Alquicira, manager of the computer instruction lab in social sciences computing, won the First annual Staff Assembly Halloween costume contest with 160 "likes" on Staff Assembly's Facebook page, where you can view entries from all over...

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCLA has been gifted $25,000 to further its efforts in the communities of Westwood, Sherman Oaks and Hollywood. The grant to the institute, which operates through UCLA Extension, comes from the Cannon Family ...

UCLA’s award-winning Mariachi de UCLAtlán will perform a free concert on Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Fowler Museum. The performance will include music from diverse Mexican communities and will highlight the special musical traditions of Día de...

Josie Bruin is considering her retirement options. If she claims her Social Security benefits when she turns 62, she will receive $1,339 every month for the rest of her life. But waiting until she’s 66 raises this to $1,793 a month; waiting till 70,...

Ian McLean, director of UCLA's Infrared Laboratory for Astrophysics, has received many honors in his distinguished career. Now he has an asteroid named after him. McLean was chosen the namesake of Asteroid #249544 (2010 HQ44) at a recent Scientific ...

Campus staff have a new opportunity for professional growth: ProShare Live, from UCLA’s Administrative Management Group (AMG), aims to help managers and aspiring managers expand their network of campus colleagues for mutual guidance and support....

Two professors, Paavo Monkkonen and Michael Lens, at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs have received a $610,000 grant to investigate how local governments spend and save during boom and bust economic times. The study hopes to determine whether ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded UCLA a $7 million grant to investigate the links between substance abuse and HIV among Latino and African-American men who have sex with men. Pamina Gorbach, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA Fielding ...

It was anything but a typical Saturday at the bank. On Oct. 12, inside the lobby of Wilshire Bank in Koreatown, nearly 250 local residents lined up for oral health screening appointments offered free of charge by UCLA School of Dentistry students,...