Faculty + Staff Archive

Bastian hit the books at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library to research her exhibition. When Jennifer Bastian was invited to cook up an exhibition for UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, where she is a visual resources...

UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies will showcase its strengths in Taiwanese research and culture as part of the new Spotlight Taiwan Project, an agreement between UCLA and the government of Taiwan.

Two professors at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) are studying how Los Angeles can reduce its water imports and better capture, store and reuse water for a more sustainable water supply. Stephanie Pincetl, director of...

Zocalo recently interviewed Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, in the green room, where invited panelists answer fun, random questions just before they appear before an audience to...

John V. Richardson, Jr., professor emeritus of information studies and expert on library and information economies in developing countries, has been recognized with a Literati Network Award for Excellence by Emerald Insight. The publisher has ...

UCLA School of Law has received a $5.5 million gift from philanthropist Charles R. "Chuck" Williams to support the leadership of the Williams Institute — the only law school initiative dedicated to the study of sexual orientation and gender identity ...

   

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, will serve as a panelist in an Education Town Hall at “Rise as One,” the 2013 Annual Conference of the National Council of La Raza, which will take place July ...

Eric Scerri, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Department since 2000, has had a third book published by Oxford University Press, "A Tale of Seven Elements."  In this book Scerri presents intriguing stories about seven elements ...

Donatello Telesca, assistant professor of public health and biostatistics at UCLA, has received the Hellman Fellowship, a financial award given to help promising assistant professors further their research and creative endeavors. His research is ...

Dr. Jonathan Fielding, UCLA Health Policy and Management professor-in-residence, founding director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and philanthropist for whom the UCLA School of Public Health is named, received the Fries Prize ...

Dr. Gary Mathern, professor of pediatric neurosurgery and director of the UCLA Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, was honored with the Ambassador for Epilepsy Award by the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the ...

Dr. Karin Nielsen, professor of pediatric infectious diseases, directs the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies. Dr. Karin Nielsen’s relaxed, easygoing manner belies the enormous workload she carries as a professor of pediatric infectious...

Renowned for his efforts to negotiate a peace accord with the Palestinian Authority at Camp David and Taba in 2000 and 2001, former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami recently told an audience gathered at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall that...

Beginning July 1, faculty and other non-represented academic personnel will receive a 2 percent general salary increase, and non-represented staff employees will receive average increases of 3 percent (individual increases may vary), subject...

Contribution rates to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) for both the university and faculty and staff are going up beginning July 1.   While the university will pay 12 percent of pay, up from 10 percent, contributions for faculty and...

Dr. Patricia A. Ganz, distinguished university professor at the Fielding School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine and director of cancer prevention and control research at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received ...

Dr. Lisa Rubenstein, professor of medicine and public health at VA Greater Los Angeles and UCLA, has been inducted into the Fielding School of Public Health's Alumni Hall of Fame, an honor awarded to those who show true passion for what they do. She ...

The World Stage Performance Gallery is bringing the Jazz Masters series from Leimert Park to the Ford Theatres stage for a big band benefit concert and tribute to guitar legend Kenny Burrell, professor of ethnomusicology. The Aug. 18 event will ...

A team of researchers from UCLA Luskin and UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning has received a grant from the California Air Resources Board to explore the impact of transit-oriented development on low-income communities. At UCLA ...

On July 23, the iPalpiti Soloists will kick off the annual Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, which returns to Korn Convocation Hall at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. These talented musicians will join the Ensemble in Promptu...

Urban planning professor Evelyn Blumenberg has been named chair of the Department of Urban Planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs. Blumenberg, a UCLA Luskin alumna who has been a professor in the department since 1998, assumes the role July ...

Public policy assistant professor Randall Akee has been named to the U.S. Census Bureau's National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. The panel, which includes academics, civic leaders and executives on its roster, helps the ...

In partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA is designing a new curriculum for the training of doctoral students in art history to prepare them to become future leaders in the field.   A $600,000 grant from the Andrew W....