Faculty + Staff Archive

A symposium is being held in honor of Christopher T. Russell, a professor in UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences, on May 8 and 9. This gathering is an opportunity for friends, colleagues, students and former students to celebrate and ...

Dr. John P. DiFiori was installed as the 20th president of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) on Saturday, April 20 during the society's annual meeting in San Diego. DiFiori is a professor in the departments of Family Medicine ...

The 2 million veterans who are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. As they come home, they have the potential to change the lives of civilians, too.   On Saturday at a Zócalo/UCLA forum at...

Dr. Mario Deng, professor of medicine and the medical director of the UCLA integrated program for advanced heart failure, mechanical support and heart transplant, was recognized as a Gold DOC award by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The honor gives ...

Yancey, perhaps best known as the creator of "Instant Recess", an award-winning program dedicated to "making America healthier 10 minutes at a time," died April 23 of lung cancer.

New book sparks a national conversation around its central premise: Was Austen ahead of her time as a romance strategist? "Sir, you flatter me," Austen responds from the dead.

The Model Design Manual for Living Streets, produced by the UCLA Complete Streets Initiative in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, received a National Planning Achievement Award for Best Practice from the American Planning Association. Madeline ...

Five UCLA faculty members are among the newest class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers.  Drawn from the sciences, the arts and ...

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA’s Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History and director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, has been elected to the Collège de France, a renown Paris-based academic institution.

If you want to know how the public feels about the cities of New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, you don’t have to do extensive polling or launch in-depth surveys. Just look at how they are portrayed in hit movies, suggest new findings from a...

Amsterdam fashion designer Iris Van Herpen collaborated with architect and UCLA lecturer Julia Koerner on the making of this dress using 3-D printing. It debuted in the haute couture show in Paris in January. A video at the end of this story shows...

The UCLA scholars are among 198 new fellows of the academy, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and policy research centers.

Monica L. Smith, professor of the UCLA Archaeology Interdepartmental Graduate Program and the UCLA Department of Anthropology, has been appointed to the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society. The committee evaluates ...

Aurora P. Jackson, a professor of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named to the Academic Advisory Board of the Arizona Department of Economic Security. Jackson joins a group of board members who will assist in the ...

Thomas Coates, the director of the UCLA Program in Global Health and the Michael and Sue Steinberg Endowed Professor of Global AIDS Research within the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA, received the 2013 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award ...

UCLA has been awarded a $9 million contract by the National Institute of Mental Health for an ambitious effort to rapidly study promising new drugs that may help restore normal development and brain function in children with autism spectrum ...

Economic modernization has already created classes of people who are impatient with Putin's paternalistic regime, says UCLA professor of political science Daniel Treisman in an interview with Peggy McInerny, director of communications for the...

Russell Burgos, a lecturer in UCLA's International Institute, has a résumé that pretty much sums up the word eclectic. During his sophomore year at Loyola University Chicago, Burgos joined the Army. Three years later, he went back to college, and...

Retiree health is a benefit employers rarely offer, but UC has chosen to maintain it as part of its employment package. About half of current faculty and staff will be affected by new eligibility rules for retiree health benefits that go into effect...

Photo by Kyle AlexanderTerence Tao, a professor of mathematics who holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the UCLA College of Letters and Science, will be awarded the inaugural Joseph Lieberman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics from ...

  Need your football fix? Come to the annual UCLA Football Spring Showcase on Saturday, April 27, at 5 p.m. at the Rose Bowl. Tailgate on the grounds at 12 p.m. and enjoy a pregame fan zone with food, games and live music from 1-5 p.m....

There are no ifs, ands or butts about it: UCLA became a tobacco-free campus today. People passing through Bruin Plaza stopped to pick up information on how to quit at an event marking the launch of the new policy. For more information on...

Anne Coscarelli receives clinical care award Anne Coscarelli Anne Coscarelli, director of the Simms/Mann–UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology and member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded the 2013...