Faculty + Staff Archive

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, professor of ethnomusicology in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, was honored by students and colleagues at “Resiliency and Distinction: An Inspired Professor’s Yield — Students Who Think Deeply.” The conference, held at ...

Harold Demsetz, a professor emeritus of economics at UCLA who is known for his groundbreaking research on the employee–employer relationship, has been selected as a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (AEA).  "Demsetz is one of ...

More than 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide have gone smoke or tobacco-free. Next week on April 22, UCLA joins the crowd. UCLA will be the first UC campus to act, and smokers and tobacco-users on campus are preparing.

If you had told Alex Galicia when he graduated from UCLA in 1992 with a B.A. in linguistics that he would end up running the small plumbing business that his family has owned for three generations, he would have said, “No way!” After...

Professor Nile Green of the department of history has been awarded the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies for his book, "Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915" (Cambridge ...

"If you can play, you can play."   That’s the simple, but strong message behind a growing movement on campus that fosters respect, inclusion and equality in the sports and recreation community.   Cyd Zeigler moderates...

The UCLA Academic Senate has selected 10 faculty members as well as five teaching assistants to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The award recognizes academically and professionally accomplished individuals who bring respect and ...

Computer science professor Rafail Ostrovsky has been selected as a 2013 Fellow by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in recognition of his technical and professional contributions to cryptologic research. Ostrovsky, director ...

Four UCLA faculty members are among an esteemed group of 175 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships. The new fellows were chosen from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.   The John ...

Computer science professor Amit Sahai and his research team have received a $1.2M National Science Foundation grant for research on secure computation, a powerful concept from cryptography that enables collaboration in the absence of trust.  Despite ...

UCLA and seven other UCs made the cut in a 2013 guide to green colleges, released Tuesday by The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools.

The 1973 beginnings of UCLA’s Institute of Archaeology hardly signaled greatness. Its annual budget was a paltry $6,000. Founding director Giorgio Buccellati had a staff of one, a part-time assistant who worked a few hours a week. The institute...

UCLA becomes a tobacco-free campus on Monday, April 22, and will celebrate the Earth-Day launch of the tobacco-free policy in Bruin Plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.    Going tobacco-free is part of UCLA's Healthy Campus Initiative, and...

East L.A. (left) took on a different look when high school students in an urban planning workshop at UCLA mapped their neighborhood, showing their school, a nearby park, gang hangouts and a roaring freeway ramp....

Veteran journalist and UCLA faculty member Jon Christensen has been named editor of Boom: A Journal of California published by the University of California Press. An example of what Christensen calls "humanities journalism," the quarterly magazine ...

Great buildings can define a cityscape, but how much do the grand plans of architects influence daily life? Does architecture really matter?   Renowned architect and UCLA professor Thom Mayne, second from the left, talks about why...

Mark Carlson, adjunct associate professor of theory and composition in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is a 2013 recipient of a letter of distinction from New Music USA for his "significant contribution to the field of contemporary American ...

R. Edward Geiselman, professor of psychology at UCLA, will receive the Mary Ellen McCormack Award April 26 from the L.A. Sheriff's Department for his lifetime contributions to the prevention and investigation of child abuse. Geiselman has worked with ...

When Françoise Lionnet delivers UCLA’s 114th Faculty Research Lecture in Schoenberg Hall on Monday, she will begin by talking about a shipwreck.   And not just any shipwreck. This one, which occurred in 1744, captured the...

UCLA will host a two-day celebration that will showcase exceptional research done by members of the UC Society of Fellows in the Humanities — among the most innovative UC-based scholars, artists and activists in their fields — who will...

UCLA Professor Magali Delmas received a $446,912 grant from the National Science Foundation for her ongoing research tracking energy use in individual homes and testing what motivates people to reduce their power usage.The ENGAGE project investigates ...

A self-admitted overachiever in high school, Denise Panaligan was a student on the fast track to success. She spent her summers participating in student research programs and her school days in student government when she was not cracking the books....

Adriana Galván, UCLA assistant professor of psychology, has been selected a William T. Grant Scholar by the William T. Grant Foundation. The award is given to exceptional researchers early in their careers. Galván’s laboratory studies brain ...

When Patricia Turner, UCLA’s new dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, stands before more than 4,000 prospective first-year students coming to campus April 13 for Bruin Day, she will welcome them as "the class of 2017," planting a...