Faculty + Staff Archive

    If you want to see a dancer take her art form to a higher plane, look up. Way way up.   Amelia Rudolph, a choreographer and performer, took a gravity-defying stroll down the eight-story-high Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center...

Richard Kaner of chemistry and biochemistry and Katherine Stone of law have been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate as recipients of the 115th and 116th Faculty Research Lectureships respectively for the 2013-14. Each year, two of UCLA’s most ...

Courtney Lyder (photo by Joe Toreno) So you call yourself a foodie? Come talk to us when you’ve got menu items named after you at several different restaurants.   That’s the case with Courtney Lyder, the charismatic dean of...

Jonathan Fielding is a man with many hats. Not only is he the founding director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, but he's also a faculty member in the Fielding School of Public Health and a philanthropist....

You can run off to join the circus. Or you can use the circus to train for a career in performing arts. The former is an All-American childhood dream. The latter is the latest inventive approach to entertainment education from the UCLA School of...

Jan Kempenaers took this shot of a monument near the village of Tjentište in Bosnia-Herzegovina  in 2007. Photographer Jan Kempenaers wanted to shoot ruins. What he found instead were spomeniks ― futuristic, socialist...

Nobel Laureate James Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953, attracted an overflow crowd hoping to claim a seat at the IMED Seminar Monday at the CNSI Auditorium. With people arriving as early as...

  Atop the dormant Mauna Kea volcano, 13,796 feet above the island of Hawaii, the W. M. Keck Observatory has been quietly revolutionizing what is known about the universe.   Scientists using the powerful twin telescopes at the...

A globe-trotting work of art is coming to the Hammer — and visitors are invited to contribute to its evolution.   Over the course of four marathon days — from Thursday, March 21, through Sunday, March 26, — the Domestic...

Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya speaks at "Israel in 3-D." If you didn’t already know what a complicated place Israel is, you certainly had a better idea after completing “Israel in 3-D,” the one-day university recently...

An exhibition at the Fowler Museum, "Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe," features 50 stunning 19th- to 20th-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the...

Tobias Higbie, associate professor of history, has been named the 2013-14 Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History at the Newberry Library in Chicago, an independent research library dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, ...

Vijay Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the 2013 John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers' ...

Professor or electrical engineering Jason Cong and co-authors Louis-Noel Pouchet, Peng Zhang and P. Sadayappan received the Best Paper Award at the 21st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate ...

Bahram Jalali, Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering, was honored by the Engineering Council with a Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award presented in February. Jalali was recognized for "seminal contributions ...

Electrical engineering professors Tatsuo Itoh and Ben Williams, with graduate student co-authors Philip Hon, Amir Tavallace and Qi-Sheng Chen, have been awarded the 2013 IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology Best Paper Award by the Institute ...

Distinguished professor of electrical engineering Asad Madni will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree from, jointly, California State University (CSU) and Cal State Northridge (CSUN). CSU’s board of trustees selected him for the ...

UCLA’s Center for Global Education had its birth following two tragedies that occurred on the other side of the world. A bus crash enroute to the Taj Mahal killed four American students and the husband of an educator when the driver lost...

March 11, 2013     Dear UC Colleagues,   Throughout the state and at all UC campuses, researchers are working on new ways to prevent, treat and cure cancer. As we approach the peak of the tax season, I wanted to share information on...

Dentists at UCLA's Hospital Dentistry Clinic understand that special-needs patients often feel fearful about going to the dentist. It wasn’t easy for Barbara Smith to find dental care for her 23-year-old son, Mark, who has Down syndrome....

    With the expanding barrage of tweets threatening people with information overload, a UCLA doctoral student and four of her colleagues have figured out how to help them cope with what’s become known as social media...

Animation Career Review named UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television as the No. 2 program in the country for animation and game design. "The school's world famous Animation Workshop accepts just 12 new students each year," according to the ...

Mishuana Goeman, assistant professor of gender studies, has written a new book, "Mark My Words: Native Women (Re)mapping Our Nations." The book examines the role of 20th-century native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies. "Mark My ...

Teresa L. McCarty, the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at UCLA and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University, has written a new book: "Language Planning and Policy in Native ...