Faculty + Staff Archive

"Spring Silkworms," an 80-year-old Chinese film regarded as one of the first successful attempts to weave progressive politics into Chinese popular cinema, will be shown this Sunday at the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum as part of...

The UCLA Stroke Center at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, along with the USC Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center at Keck Medicine of USC and UC Irvine have been given a $2 million grant by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to form ...

Gregory A. Miller, distinguished professor and chair of the department of psychology, received the Distinguished Contributions Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research at their annual meeting in Florence, Italy, this month. Miller ...

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and distinguished professor of education, and his wife, Carola Suárez-Orozco, professor of education, have been invited to speak at a conference titled, ...

Kim Gomez, an associate professor of education in the Urban School Division of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has been honored with the Harold A. and Lois Haytin Faculty Award. This award grants $2,500 in recognition of a ...

Jody Priselac, executive director of UCLA's Center X at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has been appointed associate dean for community programs within GSE&IS. Priselac has led Center X, which is dedicated to improving K-12 ...

This Thursday at 10:17 a.m., members of the UCLA campus community will "drop, cover and hold on" as they participate in "The Great California Shakeout," a statewide earthquake drill.   As part of the university’s participation, the UCLA...

Professor Kenneth Klee will be honored with the 2013 Distinguished Service Award by the Bankruptcy Inn Alliance of the American Inns of Court. The award, which recognizes the highest degree of professional achievement in the field of bankruptcy law, ...

The University of California wants you: That is the message thousands of high school students will hear in the coming weeks as senior leaders from all 10 campuses visit schools in low-income communities around the state.   The event, called...

Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen was recognized at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) 2013 conference as an Inaugural Fellow for his work in computational solid mechanics and multiscale materials modeling. The conference took place Aug. 4-7 at ...

Three faculty at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been awarded $890,000 by the Air Force Office of Space Research to test how recently developed materials react with plasma beams during spacecraft propulsion. ...

Now housed in the UCLA Department of English, the University of California Press magazine is produced by Jon Christensen with support from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Keith Camacho, associate professor in the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA, has been named senior editor of Amerasia Journal. He has previously served as guest editor of the interdisciplinary academic journal, which is based at UCLA. Camacho ...

Paul Simon, an adjunct professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, will receive the Robert W. Zweig M.D. Memorial Award from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). The award is given to those who have made "a significant ...

Matute studies how to transform notoriously car-dependent cities like Los Angeles into cleaner, greener, but still useable public-transit hubs. Here, he talks policy, climate change and what we can do.

Quyen Di Chuc Bui not only teaches Vietnamese language, literature and culture, but he teaches other teachers how to do the same. Photo by Peggy McInerny/UCLA. Quyen Di Chuc Bui, the head of UCLA’s Vietnamese language program, doesn’t...

For two decades, Dr. Shlomo Raz made it a top priority to help educate and better train urologists in Latin American and Mexico. What began as a small undertaking with a few urologists has since grown to include thousands of physicians. Raz is a ...

Zocalo Public Square recently invited economist M.V. Lee Badgett, research director of UCLA’s Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of...

Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) is hosting a Balkan Dance Party on the Royce Hall Terrace Tuesday, Oct. 8, free and open to UCLA students, faculty and staff. Starting at 6:30 p.m. and featuring performances from Free Range...

Professor Chrisi Karvonides who teaches costume design in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and four TFT alums will be part of the world premiere of Frank Zappa’s surrealistic "200 Motels" at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

New director of Office for Students with Disabilities  Edward McCloskey, a staff member at UCLA since 1992, is the new director of the Office for Students with Disabilities, announced Monroe Gorden, Jr., assistant vice chancellor of student...

UCLA nurse Millicent Manyore extracts an embedded chigoe flea, known as a "jigger," from a baby's foot at a clinic she helped organize in her homeland of Kenya. Photos from Medical Missions Kenya. During her overnight shifts at Ronald Reagan UCLA...

A group of staff from UCLA's New Student and Transition Program delivered more than 500 toys and boxes of decorated stars to Mattel Children's Hospital Thursday. During first-year student orientation sessions this summer, new Bruins...

Zvi Bern, professor of physics, has been selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2014 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded annually to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory. He will ...

Up until 40 years ago, few Americans ever questioned the extent to which their lifestyles relied on cheap gasoline. The oil crisis of 1973 changed that forever as horrified people watched gas prices spike astronomically and gas stations run dry...