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Marvel Comics luminaries Stan Lee and Roy Thomas will join director Kevin Smith on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., at the Hammer Museum for a discussion of the venerable publisher’s long history.

The acclaimed documentary 'Hoop Dreams' (1994) screens on Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater, with an appearance by director Steve James.

Students found special treats decking their dining halls this week when the bakery team delivered gingerbread versions of UCLA’s Royce Hall, Powell Library, Kerckhoff Hall and Haines Hall.

Lillie Hsu and Dion Raymond have long-standing “heart-centered connections” to UCLA. The newly-created position of Discrimination Prevention Officer is a key component to remedying bias, improving campus climate and strengthening UCLA’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.

Jayanti Tambe has been named executive director, UCLA Early Care and Education, effective Feb. 1, 2015.

Candice Levy, a UCLA lecturer in Jewish Studies, will discuss ‘Unjust Suffering and the Afterlife’ for the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 4-5:30 p.m.

A team of volunteers from the UCLA School of Dentistry spent a busy Saturday, Nov. 22, providing free dental treatment to nearly 100 adults and children during the second annual Treatment Day at the school's Westwood clinics.

UCLA Health Auxiliary's Adopt-A-Family Program helps brighten the holidays of patients at UCLA’s medical centers and their families facing severe illness and extraordinary financial challenges.

From poultry to pies and sugar to soil, UC scientists are uncovering insights across the food spectrum that can make your holidays healthier, happier and more mindful.

UC’s annual Open Enrollment, an opportunity for faculty and staff to make changes to their 2015 medical plan and other benefits, ends on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

'Sounds of the Season' will be presented by the UCLA choral program on Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m., at Schoenberg Hall.

UCLA is marking the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 20 by introducing a new technology tool to help smokers seen in the UCLA Health System quit for good.

UCLA faculty and staff are invited to an information session on Dec. 1 to learn about cloud computing services newly available through Information Technology Services.

If 2,200 Bruins donated to any of UCLA’s funds prior to the UCLA-USC football game Nov. 22, alumni Karren Ganstwig and Howard Welinsky pledged to give an additional $100,000 to UCLA.

Peter Thomas Dalis, who served as director of athletics at UCLA for 19 years, died Saturday, Nov.15, at his home in Pacific Palisades due to complications from multiple myeloma.

UCLA is one of 20 colleges and universities, and the only postsecondary institution in California, participating in the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Healthier Campus Initiative.

This year, UCLA's annual food drive is also part of a competition to donate more than the university's cross-town rival.

Michael Eselun, certified interfaith chaplain for the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, explores "It could be worse," a common coping strategy for dealing with cancer.

UCLA mathematician Terence Tao talked prime numbers and more in a lively conversation with pundit Stephen Colbert on the 'The Colbert Report' on Nov. 12.

UCLA’s annual campus closure will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 24 and will continue through Jan. 4, 2015, with the campus reopening on Monday, Jan. 5.

Casandra Rauser has been named director of UCLA's “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles” Grand Challenge project.

If they choose to pay for it, UCLA faculty and staff can choose to enroll in the ARAG legal plan, which is being offered with an enhanced identity theft benefit, during Open Enrollment.

Professor emeritus of anthropology Peter Hammond, who traveled the world for his academic studies and ethnographic research, died on Oct. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 86.

For UCLA staff members interested in earning an M.B.A., UCLA Anderson School of Management is hosting a lunchtime information session on Thursday, Nov. 20.

UCLA's Chase Child Life Program at Mattel Children’s Hospital invites donations to its annual toy drive through Dec. 17.