Faculty + Staff Archive

Dr. Douglas Junge, a professor emeritus of oral biology and medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry, passed away on May 5. He was 75.

Andrzej Korbonski, a professor emeritus in UCLA’s Department of Political Science, died May 13 at his home in Pacific Palisades following an extended illness. He was 86. A Polish-American scholar whose contributions to communist and post-communist ...

  Construction crews working on a residence hall accidentally knocked over a fire hydrant Thursday afternoon, causing water to shoot about 70 feet in the air on Young Drive West near Sproul Presidio, according to Assistant Fire Marshall Steve...

Professor King-Kok Cheung of the departments of Asian American Studies and English is the 2012-13 recipient of the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Cheung is author of the critically acclaimed ...

Professor of history Geoffrey Robinson and assistant professor of archival studies Michelle Caswell have been awarded a $40,000 Faculty Initiative Grant from the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program. The grant will fund research on ...

    Take a 15-minute work break Tuesday to save a life.   The UCLA Center for Prehospital Care and Campus Emergency Medical Services will be offering free Hands-Only CPR training Tuesday, June 4, in Bruin Plaza between 10 a.m. and 2...

If Karen Carpenter, Barry Manilow, Barry White, Dolly Parton and Cher number among your guilty pleasures, Mitchell Morris is your man.   In a new book, the UCLA musicologist rises to the defense of these and other ‘70s recording artists...

That old iPod or MP3 player you’ve got stashed away in a junk drawer could be bringing sweet music to someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.   Alzheimer's researcher Joshua Grill wants to send your old iPod or MP3 player to a...

Daniel Losen remembers the hard lesson he learned as an elementary teacher faced with the problem of dealing with misbehaving students in his classroom. He realized that sending them to the principal’s office, as he frequently did, just showed...

Making its premiere at this year’s UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Film Festival will be a first-of-its-kind, student-created television pilot. Under the guidance of noted television director Rod Holcomb and veteran feature...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $1.6 million research award to the Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA to study the use of videoconferencing technology to deliver behavioral ...

When Corina McIntyre signed up to become a California JusticeCorps student volunteer in 2011 through the UCLA Center for Community Learning, she was ready to hit the ground running.   “I just thought it was a fantastic opportunity to work...

Photo by Jake Fabricius Plastic surgeon and hand surgeon Kodi Azari co-directs UCLA’s Operation Mend, which treats wounded veterans with facial and other injuries requiring reconstruction. Before participating in a panel last month on how...

Experts on education assessment and policy from around the country will participate in a symposium on June 12 in De Neve Plaza to discuss the reports of the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education. The reports call for state and...

Jason Speyer, a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the inaugural holder of the school's Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering. The ...

Shaily Mahendra, an assistant professor of  civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected as a 2013 DuPont Young Professor. Mahendra is one of 14 faculty members hailing from ...

Susan Edelstein, founder and director of UCLA TIES for Families and an adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, received an Advocate Award from RaiseAChild.US for her work on behalf of foster children ...

Donna Coyne of UC Santa Barbara has been selected as the 2013-2015 Staff Advisor-designate to the University of California regents, UC President Mark Yudof announced Tuesday. Coyne, associate director of admissions for application services at...

In this latest installment of “After Hours” — a series about faculty and staff who balance their work lives with fascinating hobbies or side jobs — meet UCLA history professor Margaret Jacob and her beloved dog, Blizzard....

Kelsey Doorey and Anna Baxter, two M.B.A. students at UCLA Anderson School of Management, see nothing wrong with always being a bridesmaid — never a bride. To make the experience more pleasurable and more affordable, they are...

UCLA Anderson recently hosted a reception last week to celebrate the opening of ‘Dreamscapes,’ the celebrated artwork of Jane Gottlieb that will be on view at the school for the next decade. The collection includes 25...

Speyer has worked on the guidance, navigation and control systems of vital aerospace and military craft for 50 years, including NASA's Apollo missions to the moon.

UCLA volunteers planted 22 new trees on Sunday in Westwood Village as part of the fourth annual WOMP, the Westwood Organized Meaningful Projects service day.

With the three-day Memorial Day weekend coming up, veterans and their supporters on campus want everyone to take a moment to reflect on the many contributions made by service men and women, both those who have passed and those who are with us....