Faculty + Staff Archive

More than 1,450 staff and faculty hit the sidewalks and walkways in and around campus this week to take part in UCLA Recreation's annual spring-into-fitness event, I♥Walking. Celebrate Valentine's Day with a gift to yourself. Today from noon...

Gaurav Sant, a UCLA assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and holder of the Edward K. and Linda L. Rice Endowed Term Chair in Materials Science, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National ...

Feb. 19 update: Organizers say this year's Dance Marathon raised a record $475,422.57 to benefit pediatric AIDS.      Have you ever danced for six hours straight, then realized there were 20 more hours to go? You have if you’ve...

Funding from state taxpayers helped Lei Zhang, a researcher with the UCLA School of Dentistry, get the state-of-the-art equipment he needs in his quest to develop a more accurate, less costly and less invasive test for breast cancer. It might...

Two UCLA faculty members in the School of Theater, Film and Television have credits on the zombie movie, "Warm Bodies," which opened at No. 1 at the box office after its Feb. 1 release and grossed $20.3 million on the weekend of the Super Bowl, ...

Almost a year after researchers at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the State University of New York–Stony Brook released a study showing that the unemployed face discrimination in the hiring process because of their jobless status,...

Maestro James Conlon, music director of the LA Opera and the 2013 UCLA Regents' Lecturer, will give a series of public lectures on Verdi and Wagner, "Struggle, Success, and Mastery: Romantic Opera in Three Acts," at the Hammer Museum...

The Wilson-Jennings-Bloomfield UCLA Venice Dental Center (VDC) was recently awarded a generous grant from the Ahmanson Foundation to support much-needed upgrades to its IT infrastructure. The IT upgrades are expected to be completed in approximately ...

After toiling for 18 years in the English Department’s reading room, head librarian Lynda Tolly admits she would be hard-pressed to put into words what makes the wood-paneled sanctuary so special.   "I can think of only about five words...

Raphael Levine, UCLA distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, will be awarded the 2012 Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal for his fundamental contributions to understanding chemical reactivity on the ...

The world's first physician to be board-certified in both pediatrics and ophthalmology, UCLA's Apt was a tireless innovator who was best known for developing an eye drop to prevent surgery-related blindness.

More than 200 Bruins and members of the UCLA community dropped by campus for free haircuts Thursday to donate their tresses to make children's wigs.

In this latest installment of "After Hours" — a series about faculty and staff who balance their work lives with fascinating hobbies or side jobs — meet Brigham Harwell, a development assistant for the UCLA Fund who spends his weekends...

A new video from UCLA Events and Transportation may be aimed at new hires, but its quick-hit overview of all the alternative transportation options available to UCLA commuters could help any Bruin who feels tied to their car.

James C. Liao, UCLA's Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the National ...

The Spirit Squad cheers for UCLA Football's team. Bruin football fans poured into Pauley Pavilion Wednesday evening, along with sports reporters and TV cameras, for 2013 UCLA Football Signing Day.    Head coach Jim Mora, flanked...

Bertozzi, professor of mathematics and director of applied mathematics at UCLA, has been named the inaugural holder of UCLA's Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity.

  Research suggests that people who are overweight or obese tend to be stereotyped as lazy, less intelligent and less efficient. But do these biases "leak out" in subtle ways in our daily interactions with overweight...

Chemical and biomolecular engineer James C. Liao was honored for his innovative methods of producing alternative fuels and his work on metabolic diseases.

Professor Mary Cadogan of the School of Nursing has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.  This honor recognizes outstanding leadership in gerontology and geriatric education.  She will be recognized at the ...

 

Architecture and Urban Design Adjunct Assistant Professor Georgina Huljich and Marcelo Spina are recipients of the 2012 United States Artists (USA) Artist Fellowship, USA Grigor Fellow in Architecture and Design. The fellowship supports America's ...

MIAS student Robert Vaszari winds through a reel of 35mm film. Among the many categories that are recognized at the Academy Awards, excellence in film restoration is, for now, absent. However, students in the Moving Image Archive...