The prize from the Gold Shield Alumnae awards $30,000 to an exceptional professor with a record of undergraduate teaching, research and university service.
As the adversity of the pandemic loomed over us, it was met in force by the ways students, professors, staff and alumni rose to meet this historic moment.
Michelle Liu Carriger shares how she used UCLA’s Fiat Lux seminar program to create a class that helped students understand life during quarantine through an artistic lens.
As professors were forced to change how they teach, the Fiat Lux seminars provided a platform to also change what they taught to help students understand the crisis.
The Bay Area native recently became co-editor of the preeminent scholarly journal for theater studies, and in May he will celebrate the publication of his second book.
Watch a live performance by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Grammy Award-winning South African choral group, which took place before a nearly empty Royce Hall.
The education arm of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, the program has brought nearly half a million students to campus to experience the wonder of performing arts.