Faculty + Staff Archive

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? Those are the questions that UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs professor Michael Storper answers in his new ...

Michael Stoll, professor and chair of Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and associate director of the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty at UCLA, has co-authored the new book, "Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?" The book ...

Joel A. Feuer, a partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP since 1989, has been appointed executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. He will join the law school Sept. 1.  "We are delighted to ...

Source: Los Angeles Sports Council Earlier this year city officials announced that Los Angeles would try to become the site for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But to win the right to host the city’s third Olympics, L.A. boosters must first...

As students listen in, engineering professor Eric Hoek, (center in plaid shirt) advise Fijian villagers on how water can be transported safely from a spring deep in the jungle. Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and...

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin basketball standout, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Tuesday to visit sick kids and cancer patients. Farmar signed autographs, gave out gift bags and posed with patients, like Chico, 9,...

Teresa Barnett and her staff of three at UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research have their work cut out for them: Document the history of Los Angeles and its environs. Since its founding in 1959, the center has amassed oral histories...

UCLA environmental economist Magali Delmas, a professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and at the Anderson School of Management, won an award Monday for her research showing that employees at 'green' companies are 16 percent ...

Devoted Bruin fans Peter Heumann and Howie Neftin donated $36,000 to the UCLA Blood & Platelet Center — proceeds from the 2013 Volkswagen City of Angels Fun Ride. The charity ride has raised more than $100,000 over the past three years for the ...

Charles Knobler, UCLA Research Professor and a former chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as a member of the 2013 class of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Fellows. The Fellows are nominated by their peers and ...

Spend a day picking the brains of screenwriters and creative writers who now teach the art of writing. The UCLA Extension free-to-all Writers Faire will be held in the Young Hall courtyard at UCLA on August 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This festive day...

The grassy slopes of the Fowler’s UCLA Arts Council Amphitheater will be the place to be Sunday from 4-5 p.m. to see Noah and the MegaFauna, a nine-piece band that mixes indie folk with jazz and big band swing to create music...

UCLA School of Law has received a two-year, $225,000 grant to establish a program that would aid low-income residents in downtown and southeast Los Angeles by having law students assist them with their medical-related legal needs. The grant from the ...

Leaders of the Working Smarter initiative, which already has saved the University of California more than $289 million, took a big step forward recently when they and counterparts from California State University recently hosted a conference to...

Professor Ellen Carpenter of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine is the new director of the Neuroscience Undergraduate Interdepartmental Program in the Life Sciences Division of the ...

UCLA is tied for first with 21 other campuses as one of the most sustainable universities in the country, after receiving a perfect score in the 2014 edition of the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll. The list includes three other UCs.

With as many accolades and laurels that have been showered on legendary film producer-director Stanley Kramer during his lifetime, would one more tribute — this one to celebrate his 100th birthday posthumously — make much of a...

For UC Merced sophomore Luis Fernando Gonzalez Haro, spending just two weeks at UCLA last month "opened up my world and what I can do and be."   Raised in the small town of Gustine in California’s Central Valley, where his family moved from...

In Memoriam: UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Charles Hopkins, the longest-serving employee at UCLA Film and Television Archive, died on July 27 at 69 from a number of health complications.

An infant is born prematurely at 22 weeks, weighing only about one pound and with bleeding in the brain. He tentatively clings to life, but in light of the fact that there is minimal likelihood he will recover a level of functional mental...

Law professor Kenneth Klee will be inducted into the Turnaround Management Association’s Turnaround, Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame for his contributions to elevate the corporate restructuring community. He will be ...

The Institute of American Cultures offered Bunche Center research grants for 2013-14 to several faculty to advance our understanding of new social and cultural realities occasioned by the dramatic population shifts of recent decades, including greater ...

Amy Rowat, assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, has been awarded a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER grant to support her research on soft biological matter. The NSF’s CAREER Program supports the research of ...

Beginning Saturday, Aug. 3, the northbound I-405 off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be closed until mid-December for construction of a longer and wider off-ramp.   The closure begins at 1 a.m. and will be in effect 24 hours a day. The new ramp...

It’s not what first lady Michele Obama had in mind with her Let’s Move! initiative, but that’s just what Americans did from 2008 to 2010 — at the height of what economists call the Great Recession.   A recent study by...