Faculty + Staff Archive

Hundreds of blue-and-gold wearing fans happily cheered through the heat at Jackie Robinson Stadium Thursday afternoon to celebrate the UCLA team that defeated Mississippi State in Omaha to capture UCLA’s first College World Series title...

California Gov. Jerry Brown enacted a spending plan Thursday that increases the University of California's state appropriation by 5 percent in the coming fiscal year and sets the stage for modest growth in financial support over the subsequent three...

Gilbert Gee, a faculty associate in the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and associate professor of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, is the incoming editor of the Journal of Health & Social Behavior, ...

Dr. Warwick J. Peacock is an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, and this award recognizes both innovation and great leadership. 

When Kathleen Micham left her student services job in UCLA Summer Sessions to take a staff position in an academic department two years ago, the change required much more than a move across campus from one office to another.   Stepping into...

In 2008, a delegation led by Chancellor Gene Block and former Vice Provost of International Studies J. Nicholas Entrikin visited Peking University (PKU) with an interesting idea: Forge a collaboration between the two powerhouse research...

UCLA athletic teams had already won the most national championships of any NCAA school, but never the baseball title — until tonight. The Bruins closed that gap in their legacy of sports excellence by sweeping the College World Series in...

Interim director named for Office of Human Research Protection Program Alison Orkin has been named interim director for the Office of the Human Research Protection Program (OHRPP) in the Office of Research Administration, following the...

Allison Carruth, assistant professor of English, has come out with a new book, "Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food," published by Cambridge University Press. The book takes an in-depth look at both small-time as well as ...

Theater Professor Gary Gardner, who spent 40 years teaching at UCLA and directing wildly successful student musical productions that entertained the entire campus, died Saturday, June 15, of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 69.

UCLA neurosurgery resident Brandon Evans was recently sitting at the back of a plane headed for Dallas with his wife and two young daughters when the loudspeaker crackled with an entreaty that is commonplace in movies, but rare in real life: Is...

Jason Ernst, an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Award that recognizes outstanding junior faculty.  

UCLA Anderson Associate Professor Felipe Caro was recently presented with two 2013 ecch Case Awards he earned for the case study he wrote on Spanish fashion retailer Zara. He is the first person in the awards' 22-year history to win both the New Case ...

Several UC graduate students, including two from UCLA, had the opportunity recently to share their expertise with California lawmakers on key policy issues — such as conservation and energy use.   Kristen Figueira, a UCLA graduate...

Dr. Marshall Morgan, chief of emergency medicine at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was installed June 20 as the 142nd president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. He will represent the association’s 6,500 member physicians from ...

Batman — who used his understanding of the criminal psyche to bring villains to justice — inspired Andrea Letamendi to pursue a career in human behavior.

This beautiful image is not an artsy photo of a pink flower. It’s a picture of an electrically conductive molecule captured with a scanning electron microscope. This image, titled "Tetraaniline in Full Bloom," won first place in the...

Deepak Lal, the James Coleman Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at UCLA, a University College London professor emeritus and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, has published a new book. "Poverty and Progress: Myths and Realities about ...

John McTague, a distinguished scientist who wove together careers as an academic, government science policy adviser and director of an industrial research laboratory, and a was professor of chemisty at UCLA died June 7. He was 74.

Jean-François Blanchette, associate professor of information studies in UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has been awarded the 2013-14 Sudikoff Fellowship by the Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media. The award ...

The following letter was issued by Chancellor Gene Block on June 14.  

UCLA's Academic Senate has announced the election of faculty members to leadership and committee roles during the 2013-14 academic year:  Academic Senate Chair: • Jan Reiff, associate professor of history/statistics, who has served as 2012-13 vice ...

Kathleen Micham, Shola Richards to receive Chancellor's Excellence in Service Awards Two outstanding staff members will be honored by UCLA Staff Assembly with the 2013-14 Chancellor's Excellence in Service Award, which recognizes staff members...