Faculty + Staff Archive

The UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN) has been awarded the California Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award in the field of green chemistry. The award was announced this week at a ceremony at the ...

In his new book, Berend analyzes the economic and social causes of the European recession of 2008-12 and says flaws in the EU should have been a clear warning of impending economic troubles.

It’s been five years since Sherry Ortner stepped from the academic world into the inner circle of independent filmmakers and producers gathered in Park City, Utah, to participate in the nation’s largest and most...

Danny Flores’ New Year’s resolution has a ring of familiarity to many of us: He’s determined to eat healthier, exercise and shed 10 pounds. Fortunately for Flores, a 16-year employee with UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services,...

  At an athletically rich school like UCLA, it’s not unusual to see student-athletes hobbling around campus, recovering from surgery or injuries they’ve incurred during the season. But when the student is a current professional...

The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the Board of Regents opens today (Jan. 22),  the University of California Office of the President announced. The position's term runs from July 2013 through June 2015.   UC...

Laurie MaldonadoA report that smashes stereotypes about single mothers in the United States "living off the dole" drew national media attention to the work of Laurie Maldonado, a doctoral student in social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School...

In conjunction with its exhibition, "Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews," UCLA’s Fowler Museum will be hosting a Pre-Purim Bash, open to the public, on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8-11 p.m. Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates...

Sensor module, as worn by amputee subject When most people walk, they do so in a symmetrical fashion: They take even steps and place equal pressure on each foot as it touches the ground, with the heel striking first, the arch second, the toe...

BHIP participant in a class last fall works out with a medicine ball.Death-by-10-meter sprints. Arm-aching push-ups followed by lunges, then laps. Heart-pounding stair-climbing at Drake Stadium in the heat of high noon.   Ah,...

A $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, announced Jan. 15, includes UCLA Professor Paul Barber as co-principal investigator on a project to conserve coral reefs around Indonesia. Barber, a UCLA professor in the Department of Ecology ...

A team of UCLA scientists has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for research aimed at reshaping and improving how images and large data sets are collected and analyzed in science, engineering, medicine and other ...

Arguably the most collaborative space on campus, where disciplines like computer science, urban planning, Near Eastern languages and cultures and interactive mapping collide into creative scholarship.

How many of us have read a story about someone performing a selfless and generous act and been inspired to pay it forward? Tony Tolbert, associate director of admissions and outreach and an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, actually did – in a big way.

An article by scientist Michael Carey has been selected as one of the best articles published in 2012 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry The article was among 22 papers selected by the journal's editors from more than 4,000 for inclusion in the ...

Higher education institutions trying to extend their reach internationally have launched study abroad programs and started satellite campuses in foreign lands. But have these trends now made higher education inaccessible and unaffordable for a broad...

If you thought the issue of segregation in schools was an urban problem that was ultimately solved with the past victories of the civil rights movement, Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, is asking you to take another...

Find out more about UCLA’s plans to go tobacco-free by attending Staff Assembly’s Learn at Lunch on Thursday, when smokers can hear from addiction experts about the most effective ways to quit.

  A three-part documentary series produced by UCTV explores the heartache for those suffering from and coping with Alzheimer's disease and the hope offered by UCLA researchers leading the charge to slow its progress...

Gov. Jerry Brown today (Jan. 10) proposed a state spending plan for the coming fiscal year that would provide a modest boost to the University of California's operating budget for 2013-14.   The state legislature still must agree to the...

"A Portrait of Piotr Kajzer" (1944) is one of 114 drawings by Franciszek Jazwiecki that were created in the concentration camps. Imagine toiling in secrecy, trying to create a drawing on bits of toilet paper or using a nail sharpened on a piece...

Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser to President George W. Bush and currently on faculty at Stanford University, will be on campus to deliver the 2013 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on Feb. 27 at 5...