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The American Planning Association has named 'parking guru' Donald Shoup, UCLA professor of urban planning, as the recipient of its 2015 National Planning Pioneer Award.

Marcus Sedgwick, an award-winning young adult fiction author, will deliver the Frances Clarke Sayers Lecture at UCLA on April 26.

UCLA professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein launches her newest book, "Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950," on April 21 in the UCLA Faculty Center.

A coalition of students, faculty and staff is a hosting an April 23 forum to encourage dialogue on campus climate and diversity-related issues.  The program will include facilitated discussions addressing issues such as bias response, student ...

UCLA faculty, staff and students are invited to enter the second annual ‘Code for the Mission’ competition to develop mobile applications promoting UCLA’s mission of education, research and service.

The UCLA Hammer Museum’s annual Kids’ Art Museum Project on May 17 is a one-of-a-kind fundraising event imagined by artists that provides extraordinary experiences for kids and their families.

Step forward to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's lifesaving work by joining the “Out of the Darkness” campus walk at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18 at UCLA's Drake Stadium.

Feature film ‘Dear White People’ — dubbed an ‘Advanced Course in Diversity ’ in a New York Times review — will be presented at 7 p.m., April 29 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater.

The University of California is streamlining the menu of investment funds available to employees through the UC Retirement Savings Program (RSP) — 403(b), 457(b), and Defined Contribution Plans.

Patricia Kerrigan, a cognitive intervention specialist at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, will receive the Nan Songer Distinguished Member Award from APHOES, a professional organization in her field.

When Karen Griffiths lost her 2-year-old son to leukemia in 1980, it opened her eyes to the compassionate role of pediatric nurses — a role she fills today at UCLA.

UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl lectures on 'ISIS and the Enslavement and Trafficking of Women' on Thursday, April 9, 6-8 p.m. at UCLA Law.

Powerhouse vocalist Vickilyn Reynolds belts out crowd-pleasing jazz, blues and gospel numbers in her one-woman musical, “Hattie...What I Need You to Know,” at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, 8 p.m., April 11 and Sunday, 2 p.m., April 12.

Ragini Gill has been appointed new director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, as of May 4. Gill has been serving UCLA Health since 2006 as a retirement and benefits counselor as well as program manager for staff health and wellness. 

Kathleen Salvaty, an experienced litigator and civil rights advocate, has been hired as UCLA’s Title IX officer.

Hear from UCLA sleep experts, take a nap, practice mindful meditation and more during the UCLA Sleep Well Campaign, Monday-Friday, April 6-10.

Triathlete Greg Parks and actor Larry Miller recently appeared at the Reagan UCLA Medical Center to share the experience of recovering from a major brain injury.

Activist and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom screens 'The Mask You Live In' at 7 p.m., April 16, at UCLA's Kaufman Hall.

Kelli Ham, consumer health and technology coordinator, at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, is the recipient of the 2015 Librarian of the Year Award presented by LAUC-LA, the UCLA division of the Librarians of the University of California.

If you’re wondering whether you’ll have the money you need when you’re ready to retire, UC’s Retirement Review, featuring your personalized retirement readiness score, is just the tool to help you.

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April with a series of free events presented by UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

On the UCLA campus, a conference, a film series and a new opera commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

UCLA Recreation's Bruin MoveMail sends out twice-a-day emails to get deskbound faculty and staff out of their office chairs and into better health.

UC is launching a staff engagement survey on March 30 to learn more about what its non-represented (policy-covered) staff thinks about working at the university.

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh, a leading authority on the American Civil War and the legacy of Ulysses S. Grant, will give a free lecture on April 9, the 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox.