Faculty + Staff Archive

The UCLA Working Group on Advancing Opportunity for People with Disabilities will be hosting a workshop on the subject.

Sackett, who was one of the founders of the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has died after a long illness.

Ritea will manage media relations, executive communications, the UCLA Broadcast Studio and UCLA Newsroom, the university’s primary source of news and information.

Rebeca Méndez, professor of design media arts at UCLA, was bestowed with the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts.

The 2020 Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings are published annually in Education Week.

Justin Caram, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received a Faculty Early Career Development award.

The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations is hosting conversation at 1:15 p.m. in Room 1447 in the UCLA School of Law.

Alain Mabanckou, literature professor was chosen by “New African” as one of its of 2019’s 100 most influential Africans.

Chon Noriega has won the 2019 Distinguished Editor award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Baldessari, an artist with a famously dry wit whose influence is seen all over the Los Angeles art world, died Jan. 2 at his home in Venice.

Brookmeyer is an expert on how statistical tools can help address global public health challenges.

Jampolis, professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, died Sunday, Dec. 15 in Los Angeles from leukemia. He was 76.

Marla Berns, Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler, will lead the talk on Banerjee’s “Make Me a Summary of the World” from noon to 1 p.m.

Alex Hall, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the UCLA College, has been awarded the 2019 Turco Lectureship.

UCLA’s Ravi Netravali was awarded best paper by the Association for Computing Machinery at the association’s 2019 symposium on cloud computing.

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Songwu Lu and Carlo Zaniolo have been elected as fellows of the world’s largest educational and scientific society for computing.

Wollen, who taught at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television from 1988 through 2006, died Dec. 17 in England. He was 81.

UCLA astrophysicist Smadar Naoz’s research indicates that if there is a second black hole, it would have a mass at least 100,000 times that of the sun.

Kara Cooney was awarded the Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research.

UCLA closes for its annual winter break Saturday, Dec. 2. The campus reopens on Thursday, Jan. 2.

UCLA began observing its 100th birthday and delivered new advances in research, health care, the arts, community service and teaching.

UCLA historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century” was selected for the magazine’s list.

Glen MacDonald, distinguished professor of geography, has been chosen for the American Association of Geographers' 2020 Class of Fellows.

Stephanie Pincetl of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability received the honor from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Yongjie Hu, UCLA assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a recipient of the 2019 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award.