Faculty + Staff

Thrower, professor emeritus of geography at UCLA and a passionate world traveler, died Sept. 2 at his home in Pacific Palisades.

Ghez, who received the prize for her research into black holes, is the eighth UCLA faculty member to be named a Nobel laureate.

Discussions about the status of winter quarter instruction are underway and information will be shared as soon as it is available.

A new update from campus leadership outlines the progress that has been made and highlights several new initiatives.

Lauren Lee McCarthy, associate professor in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, is one of 11 artists chosen for this honor.

Asad Madni was one of only three people elected as an international fellow.

Hirabayashi was the first professor in the United States to hold an endowed chair focused on the wartime confinement of Japanese Americans.

Berns led the Fowler, one of the world’s top museums focusing on the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the indigenous Americas, for nearly 20 years.

The linguistic anthropologist is co-editor of a new book that brings together 27 academics to analyze and understand the language of our political moment.

Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, journalist Kimberly Atkins, and law professor Jessica Levinson will discuss Ginsburg’s legacy.

Dr. Keith Vossel said: “Our plan is to grow the center’s expertise in areas of neuroimaging, stem cell biology and precision medicine.”

Powe, who oversaw programs in which public officials, community leaders and alumni mentor students, died Sept. 16. She was 66.

Ananya Roy, founding director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, received the honor designed to support progressive academics.

Ella Haselswerdt, assistant professor of classics, has been honoroed for her article “Sound and Sublime in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: The Limits of Representation.”

The first annual Hawthorne Award was named after boron research pioneer M. Frederick Hawthorne.

Kounalakis is the 50th lieutenant governor of California and a former Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary.

A new film by two UCLA faculty members focuses on volunteers who search the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants who have died.

Binder co-founded and was the driving force behind UCLA Law’s trailblazing experiential education program from its inception in 1970.

Professor Aslı Bâli offers insight into activism in Turkey by way of a social media selfie trend.

The world-renowned expert in meteorites and lunar rocks had a mineral named after him. He died at home in Los Angeles on Sept. 7.

UCLA is on track to run a completely carbon-neutral fleet by 2025.

During his career, he contributed to general relativity, the theory of weak interactions and models for elementary particles based on the mathematical description of knots.

Telluric Vibrations will be livestreamed from the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden and the molecular imaging labs underground at the California NanoSystems Institute.

The temporary change in UC’s Absence from Work policy provides additional relief for parents balancing work and child care responsibilities and expires Dec. 31.

Jennifer Steinkamp, Los Angeles-based media and installation artist, will be featured in two exhibitions opening this month.