Faculty + Staff Archive

Commencement 2013 was filled with excitement, hugs and inspiration. You can relive it all with stories, photos and video about UCLA's 2013 graduates and commencement ceremonies. See this commencement news page. 

Times have changed since UCLA's first doctoral hooding in 1938. This year's new doctorates range in age from 25 to 77, and one who was born the year UCLA awarded its first Ph.D.

Joseph Green is a young opera-singing phenom whose talents were discovered after he moved into Sproul Hall — at the age of 11.   Joe, who's now 14, is the son of art history professor Charlene Villaseñor...

Cindy Cordova, assistant to the vice dean for faculty at the David Geffen School of Medicine, takes on the presidency of UCLA Staff Assembly next month. 

The Confederacion Americana de Urologia (CAU), an organization of 8,000 urologists from Central and South America, Mexico and Spain, has announced that it is establishing the Shlomo Raz Medal and Prize, its highest accolade. The new prize will honor ...

New Staff Assembly Executive Board announced The newly elected members of 2013-14 Staff Assembly Executive Board have been announced and will take office on July 1. Assuming the post of president is Cindy Cordova, who served as president-elect...

Massage therapists were kneading away the stress of students studying at the Young Research Library Monday. The complimentary service was offered by FITWELL.  

Luisa Iruela-Arispe, professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology, is this year's recipient of the Gold Shield Faculty Prize that awards $30,000 annually to a full professor in mid-academic career in recognition of extraordinary ...

The UCLA Medical Group has earned a four-star ranking, the highest achievement possible, in the California Association of Physician Groups' (CAPG) seventh annual Standards of Excellence survey.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, already among the best medical schools in the nation, is getting ready to break ground on a medical education building that will change the face of the school's teaching and learning efforts.   The...

This copper portrait medal of Hippocrates was designed by Jacques Devigne for the Paris Mint in 1983. It is part of the Ralph R. and Patricia N. Sonnenschein Collection of Medical and Scientific Portrait and Commemorative Medals. The ancient...

  Each morning as the gate to fenced-in Gladys Park is unlocked, homeless men and women move in from wherever they have spent the night on downtown L.A.’s skid row. One group gathers near the portable bathroom stalls in the park; others...

The important new scholarship being produced by UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) in disciplines ranging from music and poetry to the visual arts, was recently recognized with 10 International Latino Book Awards. Four books published by ...

Dr. Roger S. Lo, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and assistant professor of medicine, divisions of dermatology and molecular and medical pharmacology, has received the 33rd Annual American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Award ...

UCLA distinguished professor of economics Roger Farmer has received prize-winning recognition for new research. Farmer, along with co-authors Carine Nourry and Alain Venditti of the University of Aix Marseilles, was presented with the inaugural 2013 ...

Ambassador Ryan Crocker identified three top priorities for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East when he delivered the annual Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace organized by the UCLA Burkle Center for International...

The sweet scent of strawberries and other locally grown produce attracted students, faculty and passersby to the last Farmers' Market of the academic year in Bruin Plaza Thursday. "I’ve been here twice today,” said first-year...

Students on The Hill swapped hundreds of books, clothes, electronic items and more during the End-of-Year Exchange at DeNeve Plaza last Saturday afternoon. Sponsored by the On-Campus Housing Council, a student organization, the event was...

A professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a second-year medical student in the David Geffen School of Medicine Prime Program were selected to receive the 2013 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award by the Academic Senate.During his career at UCLA, ...

Liao is being recognized for his breakthrough work synthesizing alcohol into biofuels that has the potential for use in numerous industrial and energy applications.

UCLA's Film and Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program present a very special evening with the legendary Kirk Douglas as part of their celebration of Burt Lancaster's enduring legacy on the centennial of his birth...

A younger generation of scholars recently paid tribute to UCLA Professor Emeritus Ismail K. Poonawala at a symposium by presenting new research in a tradition made immeasurably richer by his life’s work as a scholar of Ismaili Shiism. The symposium, ...

Susanna Hecht is a professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and is also on faculty in the Department of Geography and affiliated with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her new book,...