Faculty + Staff Archive

UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf is being honored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with its Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences, presented this year with the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal. He will be honored in a ceremony on April ...

Jane Margolis, one of the driving forces behind Center X’s efforts to make computer science accessible to all Los Angeles Unified School District students, particularly students of color, knows from experience that inequities exist in the...

Herbie Hancock (shown at left) and Wayne Shorter (below) — multiple Grammy Award winners and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters — have been named UCLA professors at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. "We are truly delighted to welcome ...

  What happens when a group of young, talented musicians are given free rein in a world-class museum? Things get wild.   See for yourself in the first episode of "Museum Meets Orchestra," a new UCTV Prime documentary series that goes...

For the millions of holiday shoppers who recently spent $42.3 billion for online purchases, the conveniences are irrefutable, from browsing the virtual aisles 24/7 — even from home all cozy in our pajamas — to seeing our stuff...

Marvin Hoffenberg, professor emeritus of political science, died Sunday, Dec. 30, at age 98. Marvin Hoffenberg was born in Buffalo, New York in July 7, 1914. He attended Ohio State University where he received his bachelor's degree in 1939 and a ...

"The mentoring experience will be profound for us," said Hancock of his and Shorter's new role instructing jazz performance students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

The new tax legislation that Congress approved on Jan. 1 and President Obama recently signed may affect the 2013 federal income tax withholding on your paychecks.   The tax rate will go up for individuals earning $400,000 or more a year and for...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded  a $50,000 NEA Art Works grant to the Latino Theater Company (LTC) to support the 2014 National Latino Theater Festival and conference.TTheater FT Professor and LTC head Jose Luis Valenzuela will ...

UCLA, NBC4 and the Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy & Jobs have joined together to co-host a jobs-focused mayoral debate on Monday, Jan. 28, at Royce Hall. The debate will be broadcast live on NBC4 from 7 to 8 p.m. and will...

Todd Presner, professor of Germanic languages and literature, digital humanities and comparative literature; Peter Lunenfeld, professor of design and media arts; and Johanna Drucker, professor of information studies, have co-authored the book ...

Fourth graders at Earl Warren Elementary School, a Title 1 school located in an economically depressed area of Lake Elsinore, Calif., recently conducted molecular biology research and learned how to extract DNA from split peas using...

With nearly 23 million people across the African continent living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts across the globe are working feverishly to stem the epidemic. Among them is UCLA’s Pamina M. Gorbach, a behavioral epidemiologist whose...

Robert Murrell Stevenson, 96, an emeritus professor of musicology at UCLA and a preeminent scholar who contributed significantly to the historical record of Spanish and American music, died Dec. 22 of natural causes in Santa Monica. During his tenure ...

Zombies, even more than handsome vampires, are ubiquitous in today’s pop culture, from hit TV shows to video games. But did you that the zombi actually comes to us from the Vodou culture of Haiti? Join the Fowler Museum at...

Bruins Women's Gymnastics vaults into its new season this Sunday, Jan. 6, against Southern Utah in the annual John Wooden Challenge at the new Pauley Pavilion. The six-time NCAA champions and returning 2012 Pac-12 champs are...

The UCLA Department of Urology has received a $4.6 million gift from the estate of Frank and Dorothy H. Clark, longtime benefactors who helped to create leading-edge pediatric and adult urology centers in Westwood and Santa Monica. The gift, from the ...

Faculty in the economics and mathematics departments at UCLA celebrated Monday the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics to their longtime colleague, Lloyd Shapley.

Lloyd S. Shapley, a professor emeritus of economics and mathematics at UCLA, has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He shares the award with Harvard University economist Alvin E. Roth.

Jewitt was awarded the prizes, each worth $1 million, for his role in the 1993 discovery of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

Hundreds of people celebrated the life and legacy of Winston Doby, who spent 40-plus years in university service.

A Korean art exhibit initially sparked student Grecia Pinto’s interest in Korean studies. For law student Noelia Berardi, it was a keen interest in international relations. And so the two women from Latin America, who admit they knew very...

Because almost everyone remembers the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, we each carry part of the story. Bruins shared their memories of how they heard the news on Sept. 11, or in some cases, how they saw it happening.

"The time has come to teach one another and to learn from one another," said Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale during a 9/11 campus memorial. This "teachable moment" became the impetus for a series of innovative seminars that continue...