Faculty + Staff Archive

Jeff Burke (far left), previously the director of technology research initiatives for UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and executive director of UCLA TFT’s Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP), has been ...

The newly opened Wolfgang Puck Express in Ackerman Union offers artisanal food in a bistro setting. Business is cooking as students, staff and faculty flock to Ackerman Union to get a taste of the culinary creativity of Wolfgang Puck. The...

For the fifth year in a row, UCLA School of Law has been named one of the Top 10 Best Law Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine. UCLA Law, which is committed to making a world-class legal education available to students of all ...

John Hawkins, professor emeritus of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been named co-director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP). The organization, which is based in Los Angeles, Honolulu, ...

Milos Ercegovac, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, is the recipient of a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from the department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1975. ...

Salpy Akaragian, director of the international nursing program and nurse credentialing for the UCLA Health System, was honored with a Giving Excellence Meaning Award in the category of Volunteerism and Service by Nurse.com on Aug. 23.  As director of ...

Research by electrical engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan received the 2013 Microscopy Today Innovation Award from the magazine "Microscopy Today" at the Microscopy and Microanalysis conference in Indianapolis in August. The annual award ...

Professor Stefano Soatto has been appointed a 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow for his contributions to dynamic visual processes. Soatto heads up the computer science department's Vision Lab, which has ties to the UCLA ...

During elementary school in Ghana, Joseph Asunka and his classmates did their writing in dirt on the school floor. Thanks to his parents and UCLA professor Daniel Posner, he's earning his Ph.D. in political science at UCLA. Good...

Who knew a whisper could be so powerful? Beginning this Thursday, Sept. 19, at 2 p.m. visitors to the UCLA Hammer Museum are invited to participate in KCHUNG Radio’s Whisper Reports, a series of news reports and interviews on subjects such as...

The honor acknowledges the lasting economic and societal impact of federally funded basic research.

UCLA has been awarded a $250,000 grant from UC to implement a bedside ultrasound training program at several of its medical centers' intensive care units.

New faculty have expertise that help redirect UCLA’s approach to Japanese studies, to include study of anime, manga and other Japanese popular culture.

An interdisciplinary team of faculty members has been awarded $1,335,074 from the California Energy Commission to conduct research on zero-net energy building construction. The researchers include (shown in photo, clockwise from upper left) Professor ...

Professor Neil Netanel, Pete Kameron Professor of Law, will be honored with the 2013 IP Vanguard Award by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California. The award is presented to outstanding legal professionals who are ...

Lukowa Kidima, a linguist in the UCLA Library who also taught in the department of linguistics, passed away on August 21, 2013, at the UCLA Medical Center following a stroke. He was 63.

Looking for a free art and history lesson of contemporary Europe? You’ve got just a couple of weeks left to get to the Fowler Museum to see photographs of the futuristic-looking, yet dilapidated spomeniks ― Serbo-Croatian for monuments —...

When Peter Clayson was an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University majoring in psychology and Russian, he did scholarly research on the brain science behind cognitive and emotional processing — work that included participating in two...

Dr. Marvin Ament, professor emeritus in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will receive the lifetime achievement Harold S. Diehl Award on Sept. 19 from the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he earned his medical degree in 1963. ...

If you’re looking to satisfy your outdoor theater fix, UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library presents its final Arts on the Grounds performance of the summer this weekend. Artistic Director Annie Loui and the Counter-Balance Theater...

Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale has been named to the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Carnesale, who served as chancellor from 1997 to 2006, is a professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and a professor of ...

Hitoshi Abe’s new student center designed for the Vienna University of Economics and Business will be celebrated Sept. 19 along with new campus buildings by other architects, including Zaha Hadid and Peter Cook. The pre-opening ceremony in Vienna will ...

Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, professor of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health, has been appointed the new associate dean for research beginning Sept. 1. Dr. Zhang has served as co-director of the UCLA Alper Center for Environment Genomics ...

Parklets, like this one on Spring Street, have the power to enliven a neighborhood, researchers discovered. Despite their tiny size, parklets — those popular pockets of public space that are formed from parking spaces, alleyways...