Faculty + Staff Archive

Professor of education Mike Rose was recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Education.Founded in 1965, the NAEd is a select group of approximately 200 members from throughout the United States and foreign associates who are elected ...

Philanthropists Dr. Mick Dragoo and his wife, Mary, have pledged a landmark gift of $5 million to the UCLA School of Dentistry to establish the UCLA Mick and Mary Dragoo Periodontal and Implant Clinical Research and Patient Care Center.The Dragoos' ...

During his term in office, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has managed to implement reforms at 22 of LAUSD's worst-performing schools. Since John Deasy took the top job as superintendent of LAUSD less than two years ago, he...

Social welfare associate professor Laura Abrams of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is the author of a new book, "Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C" (Rutgers University Press), which explores the...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who visited the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs last Wednesday for a discussion about improving public education, also shared his thoughts on...

Every year when Guatemala’s six-month-long rainy season ends around November and the sun comes out, tourists flock to picturesque sites like Guatemala City and Antigua to frolic under cloudless blue skies.   For many Guatemalans,...

UCLA's extensive partnership with Dorsey High School, where students currently participate in seven UCLA community programs, was celebrated Tuesday by Dorsey administrators, teachers and students and a group of UCLA...

It was a typical day for Dr. Jason Napolitano. He arrived at 7 a.m. at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and checked the overnight results of his patients' X-rays, blood work and other lab tests. He reviewed their vital signs, medications and...

To help celebrate the 75th anniversary of March Madness, UCLA unveiled 11 pieces of original art — each one representing one of its NCAA men’s basketball championships — at Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game...

Former secretary of state and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice offered a spirited defense of democracy as the best and most stable system of government at the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture of the Burkle Center for International...

Lois Takahashi, professor and chair of the urban planning department and professor of Asian American studies, has been awarded a two-year, $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Her project, “Examining the Geographies of Immigrant Sex ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Beth Henley will be joined by actors Ed Harris, Diane Keaton, Amy Madigan and Belita Moreno on March 12 at 7:30 p.m. to read excerpts from her plays at the Hammer Museum's next program in the "Some...

   

Professor Patrick Goodman will be honored with the 2013 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is presented by the UCLA School of Law annually to a professor who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to teaching. He will receive the award ...

Professor Erkki Huhtamo's new book, "Illusions in Motion," published recently by MIT Press, explores media culture in the making from the 18th to 20th century. The centerpoint is the moving panorama, once a hugely popular media spectacle, which has ...

Professor of geography Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and winner of the 1999 National Medal of Science, was awarded the 2012 RBG Kew International Medal by the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. The medal is given to individuals who have made ...

(From left) Haley Ludwigson, executive director of the Fink Center, and UCLA Anderson students Michael Gould, Brian Gelfand and Aylon Ben-Sholomo.A team of M.B.A. students from UCLA Anderson School of Management took first place and a $5,000 prize ...

The work of Greg Lynn, professor of architecture and urban design, is included in the latest exhibition at the National Academy Museum. His "RV Prototype" is featured in "Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture," on view ...

Shirley Clarke was no ordinary documentary filmmaker. One of the first women to break the male lock on independent filmmaking in the ’50s and ’60s, Clarke grew up in New York, a child of wealthy parents who provided her with a...

Jorge Torres, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, has been named a 2013 Cottrell Scholar, based on his innovative research as well as his passion for teaching, said the head of Research Corporation for Science Advancement, ...

Plan on attending the annual Alliance Suppliers and BruinBuy Trade Show, where more than 75 of UCLA's recommended suppliers will exhibit their latest products and technologies and answer questions about their goods and services. The trade show will...

As much as social scientists have learned about what drives people’s decision-making, there is still no silver bullet for changing people’s behavior — especially when it comes to making better health...

Barely a few decades ago, it was not uncommon for scholars to discuss diversity, race and ethnicity in binary terms: minorities and majorities, black and white. But the dramatic increase of ethic, racial, linguistic and religious diversity in...

Timothy Taylor’s book, “Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture,” was selected as the winner of the 2012 John C. Cawelti Award by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, a group of scholars and ...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made news at a UCLA panel Tuesday morning when he noted that L.A. will move off of coal-based energy by 2025.