Faculty + Staff Archive

Jacqueline Durran Jacqueline Durran, last night's winner of an Oscar for her costume designs for "Anna Karenina," appeared on a thought-provoking panel of leading costume designers brought together on campus Friday by UCLA's School of Theater,...

In Memoriam: Geneva Phillips, managing editor of the California Dryden Project Jeanette Gilkison (from left), English department’s office supervisor; the late Vinton Dearing, managing editor for the California Dryden Project; and Geneva...

If you ever wanted to find fame on the Internet, then here's your chance to hear from six YouTube stars and entertainment journalists who will be on a panel to discuss just how it's done. USAC's Campus Events Commission is presenting a music...

A $650,000 endowment in honor of memory of an alum who died shortly after graduating from the UCLA in English will increase graduate support there by about 10%. The boost is expected to increase the department’s ability to compete with better-endowed ...

Hillary Theyer, adjunct lecturer and alumna of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has been named one of 24 exceptional Public Library Association (PLA) Leadership Fellows by the American Library Assocation’s PLA Development ...

Facilities Management mechanics suit up in scuba gear to clean each of UCLA’s pools twice a week and they find the weirdest things while they’re underwater.

Gary Orfield, UCLA professor of education, law, political science and urban planning, was the keynote speaker at the Annual Diversity Lecture at the USC Rossier School of Education on Feb. 13. His presentation was titled 'The Supreme Court and the ...

The Rasmussen Encephalitis Children's Project has contributed $125,000 to researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to continue their work on the rare, devastating pediatric brain disease. Rasmussen Encephalitis (RE) is a neurological ...

Matt Rosenstein (right) and a Pathway friend in the bleachers at a Bruins baseball game.For the past eight years, one of Matt Rosenstein’s best friends has been Alexis, who is autistic. They met at Santa Monica High School when Rosenstein was a...

Should we just adapt to climate change?   UCLA environmental historian Jon Christensen (from the left) speaks to Andrew Revkin, writer of an environmental blog at the New York Times, and Alex Hall, a UCLA scientist. The question raises the...

Five outstanding young professors from UCLA are among 126 scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada to receive 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. UCLA is tied for second in the number of new fellows ...

The UCLA professors are among 126 scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada to receive the prestigious honor from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Armen Alchian, a UCLA professor emeritus of economics who played an influential role in his field for more than half a century and helped elevate UCLA's economics department to one of the most respected in the country, died on Feb. 19 at his home in ...

Armen A. Alchian, a UCLA economist known for groundbreaking research on the employee–employer relationship, the hidden inefficiencies of governmental regulation, and the forces that determine the success of firms, died today at his home in Los Angeles. The professor emeritus of economics was 98.

Today’s tech-savvy young people expect quick answers from both people and machines, and are more tolerant of social, ethnic and cultural differences, according to a well-known Harvard educator who spoke to a capacity crowd at Schoenberg Hall...

Jeffrey Simon, a visiting professor of political science and expert on terrorism and political violence, is the author of a new book, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat."

More than 50 of the world’s top Mars scientists gathered in Royce Hall last week to discuss whether life could survive on the red planet. Three dozen talks over two days covered topics ranging widely from the current liquid water activity on...

Art history chair Miwon Kwon has received the highest book award from the leading professional organization in her field for "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974" (Prestel Publishing), a book she co-authored with Philipp Kaiser, director of Museum ...

UCLA's Jeffrey Simon, a visiting professor of political science and expert on terrorism and political violence, discusses the case of fugitive ex-L.A. cop Christopher Dorner.

The Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN) in January received the California Governor's Environmental Economic Leadership Award. The center was co-founded by Yoram Cohen, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, ...

Technological developments by Dino Di Carlo and Aydogan Ozcan have been recognized by the Journal of Laboratory Automation as two of the top 10 breakthroughs of 2012. Di Carlo, associate professor of bioengineering, was recognized for his ...

Professor Ali H. Sayed is co-recipient, with former Ph.D. student Zhi Quan and co-author S. Cui, of the 2012 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the article, "Optimal linear cooperation for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio ...

Yahya Rahmat-Samii, distinguished professor of electrical engineering and holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/ Electromagnetics, has been selected a fellow of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), the ...

UCLA Engineering faculty members Aydogan Ozcan, associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, and Qibing Pei, professor of materials science and engineering, were among 69 scientists and engineers worldwide elected this year as ...