Faculty + Staff Archive

Chancellor Gene Block and more than 160 other university presidents and chancellors have urged President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to make it a national priority to increase federal spending on research and higher...

Gabriel Lobet, 14, a student at Culver City High School, uses an ophthalmoscope to examine the retinas of his mom, Elizabeth Calvin. He and other students from local middle and high schools examined their parents' brains Tuesday as part of a two-day...

UCLA atmospheric scientist Kuo-Nan Liou will receive the 2013 American Geophysical Union Roger Revelle Medal, an award that recognizes scientists for “their outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences, atmosphere-ocean coupling, atmosphere-land ...

Local elected officials recently joined professors from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and leaders of the Los Angeles Urban League and California Business Roundtable for a discussion about the unbalanced economic recovery being...

Amin Banani, founder of the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA, the western world’s first bachelor of arts program in Iranian studies, died July 28 in Santa Monica at 86.

Zocalo recently interviewed attorney David Codell, visiting Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law and Legal Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA,in the green room, where invited panelists answer fun, random questions just before they...

Like employers across the country, UC has been reviewing the legal, policy and operational implications of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) for the university and its...

Avis Ridley-Thomas (far left) and Wellford (Buzz) Wilms (center) with UCLA undergrads who took their class in "Restoring Civility: Understanding, Using and Resolving Conflict." After taking a training course on conflict mediation taught at UCLA...

In celebration of the exhibition "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," the Hammer Museum and KCRW–89.9 FM present free live music tonight at 7 p.m. curated by and featuring KCRW DJs with special guests. Enjoy sets by KCRW DJ Anne Litt...

   "Hollywood Bob" Goldberg explains in his online course how genetic engineering is carried out. His lectures, shot in a production studio and enlivened by archival images as well as animation, came about through a collaboration with...

Two professors from the UCLA School of Nursing will be inducted as Fellows to the American Academy of Nursing. Fellows are selected based on their outstanding nursing contributions and their drive to continually help reform America’s health care ...

"Cutie and the Boxer," which won the Best Director Award for Zachary Heinzerling at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is coming to UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater Aug. 11 as part of the Sundance Institute’s inaugural NEXT WEEKEND....

Gary Blasi, emeritus professor of law, will be honored with the State Bar of California’s Loren Miller Legal Services Award, which is considered a lifetime achievement award, for his significant work in increasing access to the legal system and his ...

Dwaine Duckett, the University of California’s vice president for systemwide human resources and programs, issued the following statement on July 24 about the status of UC’s negotiations with the American Federation of State,...

She was a 93-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where the air was tainted with the smell of death. In 1945, she managed to escape from the Nazis into a forest when camp guards led her and other prisoners on a final death...

Students in Simul8 design and maintain apps for UCLA Library. The team functions like a start-up and provides students the opportunity to apply their computer coding knowledge in real-world settings. When Kevin Rundblad was hired in September...

David Mong, a Hong Kong-based philanthropist and businessman as well as a UCLA alumnus, has given the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science a $5-million gift. The largest single donation UCLA has ever received from Asia or from ...

Reggie Love (at right) finds his shot blocked by President Barack Obama on a basketball court at St. Bartholomew Church in New York City on Sept. 23, 2009. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. What was it like to spend...

Gordon L. Fain, distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, ophthalmology and neuroscience, is the recipient of Brandeis University’s fourth annual Jay Pepose ’75 Award in Vision Sciences. Fain is the leading physiologist studying ...

Mike Rose, UCLA professor of education and author of “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education,” has written a new book, “Public Education Under Siege,” which focuses on alternative perspectives concerning education reform in ...

Shown above are some of the stem cells derived by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. To see more, click here.  Stem cells are the body’s “master” cells....

Dmitri Kondrashov, a researcher with UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, has been awarded a federally funded grant from the National Science Foundation to study changes in the Earth’s climate as well as the consequences of climate ...

The University of California Board of Regents today appointed Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a two-term governor of Arizona, as the 20th president of the University of California.   Napolitano, the...

Bruce Varner, chair of the UC Board of Regents, issued this letter regarding the appointment of Janet Napolitano as president of the University of California:    Dear UC Colleagues,   As chairman of the UC Board of Regents, I am...

Leo Trujillo-Cox (left), founding executive director of the Law Fellows Program and Tony Tolbert, longtime associate director, were honored July 12 for their professional achievements by For People of Color, Inc. (FPOC). Trujillo-Cox received the ...