Faculty + Staff Archive

Teachers, family members and friends of more than 300 jubilant J.D. graduates and approximately 96 master of law graduates attended commencement ceremonies Friday at Dickson Court North. The UCLA School of Law graduation was the first of more...

In this Q&A, UCLA law professor Stuart Banner talks about his new book documenting the litigious history of America’s national pastime.

Despite budgetary constraints brought on by years of declining state funding, the University of California continues to outpace many of its peer institutions on critical measures of student success. UC — and UCLA in particular — ...

The 27th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 and 27, and will feature artists such as Common, Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Jhene Aiko and others. Jazz Reggae is a two-day festival, the largest student-run music...

On Tuesday last week, a middle-aged scholar lectured in a Royce Hall conference room on the role of Padua as the true cradle of the Italian Renaissance. Later that day, that same Ph.D. candidate stepped into a different world. He walked...

It was 6 a.m. Wednesday in Pauley Pavilion, and dozens of undergrads were hoisting lights onto scaffolding, pounding floorboards and pushing massive speakers on dollies into place. Two days before Spring Sing, these members of the UCLA Student...

A groundbreaking membrane material developed by Eric Hoek, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Richard Kaner, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science and engineering, has received an international award for ...

Faculty and staff whose to-do lists include items like "schedule an eye exam" or "get new glasses" can look forward to taking care of these tasks on campus when a new full-service optometry center opens summer 2014 at Ackerman Student Union....

Sharon Belkin, a UCLA biological artist who provided graphics for medical research for 18 years before she retired, is one of 26 emeriti whose work will be showcased at the Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibit on Tuesday, May 21,...

University of California President Mark Yudof presented the Board of Regents Wednesday a report that charted the significant changes of the past six years and offered a candid assessment of how UC is performing today.   Yudof, who will step...

In the midst of a raging national debate on how Americans use marijuana, a team of student researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is collecting data that could help separate marijuana fact from fiction. Led by social welfare...

University of California students remain highly satisfied with their education overall, and with their access to courses needed to graduate, according to a survey of UC undergraduates released this week.   Despite dramatic reductions in state...

Five UCLA researchers were awarded grants for projects designed to improve patient care and reduce the risk of clinical harm to UC surgery patients. The grants come from a new joint venture between the UC Center for Health Quality and Innovation and ...

Gary Orfield, professor of education and director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, has been selected by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to present the 2013 Brown Lecture in Education Research. “It is ...

Canyon Diablo, a 357-pound chunk of a meteor that slammed into Earth 50,000 years ago, sits center stage at UCLA's new Meteorite Museum. Nearly 50,000 years ago, an asteroid fragment slammed into Earth approximately 40 miles east of what is...

Edgar A. Jones, Jr., UCLA School of Law professor emeritus and a national expert on labor law and arbitration, died May 10 in Los Angeles. He was 92. Jones was a distinguished legal scholar and an esteemed member of the UCLA School of Law faculty for ...

On Monday, May 13, UCLA officially kicked off its first annual Diversity Symposium, a weeklong series of programs ending May 18— including keynote speakers, lectures, film screenings, workshops and exhibits —  to promote diversity...

What does French stoneware from the 19th century have in common with the camera used to make Hollywood’s first feature movie and a miniature etching bearing the well-known slogan, “War is unhealthy for children and other living...

Angela Horne appointed new head of Anderson School Library Angela Horne has been appointed head of the Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Horne came to UCLA from the Catherwood,...

A UCLA professor and alumna were among the recipients at the third annual Nurse 21 awards honoring those who have demonstrated leadership in advancing health and for their commitments to enriching the nursing profession.

Rob Fast (from left), nursing school special projects manager; Daisy Award winners Carol Pavlish, MarySue Heilemann, Laurie Love and Dottie Wiley; and associate dean Adey Nyamathi.Four faculty from the UCLA School of Nursing were selected by students ...

Joining ranks that include Albert Einstein and Alexander Graham Bell, two professors from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have been elected by their peers to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their important ...

Dr. Edward De Robertis and Ernest Wright are the 42nd and 43rd current members of UCLA's faculty to receive the prestigious honor.

A virtual court is in session every day on the most pressing and complex issues of human rights and international criminal law. And citizens from around the world have a front-row seat to watch some of the best legal minds make their strongest case...