Faculty + Staff Archive

"Man Walking down the Side of a Building" was performed in New York in 2010. If you happen to be strolling by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center today around noon and suddenly notice someone walking down the side of the eight-story building,...

UCLA’s Professional Development Program (PDP), designed to fast-track high-potential employees for leadership positions, is accepting applications for its 2013-14 session until April 25. Now in its 19th year, PDP is one of the most successful...

For nearly a decade, dedicated teams of therapy dogs and their human companions have brought comfort to thousands of critically ill patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center through UCLA’s People-Animal Connection (PAC)....

Andrea Ghez, award-winning professor of physics and astronomy whose work in techniques, such as the adaptive-optics system used by the Keck telescopes, has led to discoveries about star-forming regions and the super-massive black hole...

UCLA men’s volleyball coach to lead U.S. Men's National Team. Staffer collaborates on documentary about 2011 Japanese disasters.

Although tax season doesn’t usually summon warm feelings for most of us, this year it might help to know that some students at UCLA use tax season to do some good in the world.UCLA is home to one of the most prestigious chapters of the the...

Courtney Lyder, the charismatic dean of UCLA’s School of Nursing, has become a regular at Westwood eateries — so much so that several of them have named cocktails or dishes after him.

In further recognition of UCLA Health's reputation for world-class patient care, more than 200 UCLA physicians have been named to the prestigious Best Doctors in America list for 2013.  The national list, which is compiled every two years by ...

Renee Tajima-Peña, a professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed a professor of Asian American Studies and the Alumni and Friends of Japanese American Ancestry Endowed Chair, effective July 1. She will direct the Center ...

A collaboration led by the UCLA  Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded a $1.6-million grant to study the formation of colonies of bacteria, with the goals of improving treatment of infections and exploring beneficial ...

"Man in Korean Costume," about 1617, Peter Paul Rubens. The J. Paul Getty Museum A new exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum, "Looking East: Ruben’s Encounter with Asia," is built around a drawing of a man in Asian dress created by Peter Paul...

Faculty from UCLA’s African Studies Center will be focusing their attention for the next two-and-a-half years on improving the bleak future for girls growing up in Rwanda by building a partnership with a key teacher-training institute in...

Dr. Eugene Washington, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and vice chancellor for health sciences, has been appointed vice chair of the California Wellness Foundation. A member of the foundation's Board since 2008, Washington is a ...

As assistant director for professional development at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, Margaret Heritage has written a new book, “Formative Assessment in Practice: A Process of Inquiry and ...

Twitter has been a flurry of ecstatic tweets as high school seniors across the nation learn if they've been admitted to UCLA’s fall 2013 freshman class. Starting last Friday, March 22, at 5 p.m., they got the news by...

Docents recently led a group of UCLA Staff Assembly members on a tour of the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. For the first time in several years, the garden is seeking volunteer docents. No background in botany is required. Training consists of...

Construction beginning Saturday, March 23, will cause serious traffic woes on Coldwater Canyon, and though UCLA commuters most likely already use roads farther west, displaced Coldwater drivers could increase traffic on favored Bruin routes.

Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been selected to advise the State of Washington as it develops rules for its new industry in legal, taxed marijuana. Kleiman, who is an expert on many aspects of ...

SACRAMENTO — A spirited contingent of 40 volunteer faculty, staff, students and friends descended on the State Capitol Tuesday, UC Day, to tell 33 Los Angeles area state legislators and their representatives how UCLA has...

UCLA’s Center for Community Learning was named to the the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency, established the honor roll in 2006 ...

UCLA's Asian American Studies Center recently announced the publication of “The State of Illness and Disability in Asian America,” first issue of the Amerasia Journal entirely devoted to disabilities studies. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary ...

The California Transportation Foundation released its list of annual awards on Wednesday, naming ACCESS Magazine, housed inside the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, as its organization of the year. Distinguished professor of urban planning Donald ...

When spring break begins this weekend, some UCLA students are packing bathing suits and heading to the beach, but other Bruins are packing grubby work clothes to restore the bayou in New Orleans or headed for research in the mountains.

Members of the UCLA women’s basketball team erupted in cheers after learning they had earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They will face No. 14 Stetson on Saturday, March 23, in first-round action in the Oklahoma City Region. This...