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Wesley Thorne has joined UCLA as director of the UCLA Career Center, one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive centers of its kind.

Heather Adams, who transferred to UCLA from Santa Monica College in 2012, is now a staffer who helps transfer students find the support they need to succeed at UCLA.

Author and investigative journalist James Bramford, best known for his writing about the National Security Agency (NSA), will give two talks at UCLA as part of Data Privacy Month.

Let go of stress and enhance your physical and psychological well-being with Bruin MindFit, a new course offered free of cost and exclusively for faculty and staff by UCLA Recreation.

In just a few minutes, you can make sure your benefits are in order and that you're ready to take advantage of some of the great benefits and tools UC offers.

A 2014 retrospective on the world leaders, scholars, journalists and artists and numerous other notables who spoke at UCLA’s International Institute.

UCLA Library's new executive director of development, Stephanie Kimura, working with University Librarian Virginia Steel, will help spearhead the library’s fundraising endeavors while enhancing its contributions to UCLA's Centennial Campaign.

'Rocks in my Pockets,' the new animated film by Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane, at a free screening on Monday, Jan. 12, 7 p.m. at Melnitz Hall.

UCLA Fowler Museum guest curator David Herlihy will describe the lives and adventures of 19th Century bicycle pioneers William L. Sachtleben and Thomas G. Allen Jr. on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 3 p.m.

The Hammer presents the ‘The Contenders,’ the Museum of Modern Art’s renowned exhibition of films representing the best of the past year’s mainstream movies, independents, foreign-language films, documentaries and art-house sensations.

UCLA offers abundant resources to help you follow through on your New Year’s resolutions.

UC Berkeley scholar Robert Alter visits UCLA to present 'The Challenge of Translating the Bible' on Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m., and 'The Story of David and Bathsheba' on Jan. 10, 10:30 a.m.

Courtney Lyder, on leave from duties as dean of the UCLA School of Nursing since July, will return fulltime to the faculty and step down as dean effective July 1, 2015, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced recently.

Eddie Murphy, director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, is retiring on Dec. 31, 2014 to finish renovating a historic home she purchased in her hometown of Wellsville, Ohio.

Professor Emeritus Robert Burr, one of the country’s leading authorities on Latin American history, passed away on Dec. 8 following cardiac arrest in Port Jefferson, Long Island.

UC employees and students traveling on official university business have long benefited from great travel insurance. Now UC staff can also purchase comparable coverage at highly competitive rates for their own personal travel outside the United States.

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that the 2015 Maximum Annual Contribution limit for retirement plans is increasing. The MAC limit for the UC Retirement Savings Program's 403(b) Plan and 457(b) Plan will increase to $18,000.

Young patients at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA went "shopping" Monday for gifts for their parents or guardians without leaving the hospital, thanks to head football coach Jim Mora and his wife, Shannon.

Are you thinking of buying a new car this month? If so, you might want to take advantage of a limited-time $1,000 discount for UC employees on the Nissan LEAF, a 100 percent electric, zero-emission car. The discount is available to all UC employees ...

A new Metro bus line will use the new I-405 carpool lanes and could result in faster commutes to and from UCLA.

Daniel Blumstein, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will do a talk at Nerd Night L.A. on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 7:45 p.m. at The Mint, 6010 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles.

Meet and learn from tech experts from all across campus at UCLA's Bruin Tech-a-Thon, a free mini-conference on Thursday, Dec. 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Math Sciences building.   A wide range of topics will be discussed in 30-minute presentations

UCLA Film and Television Archive will showcase the Australian film, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project on Thursday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm. at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater.

Learn about the complex interrelatedness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in a presentation at UCLA on Thursday, Dec. 11, 4-6 p.m. at Charles E. Young Research Library, Room 11360.

Lokubanda Tillakaratne has spent more than three decades helping his former village in many different ways. Now he's published a book of facts, figures, interviews and personal recollections of life there.