UCLA leadership

Christie focuses her research on understanding evaluation as a method for facilitating social change.

Zhan, who is an expert on health equity for the vulnerable, will start Aug. 1. She succeeds Linda Sarna.

In a message to campus, UCLA leaders condemned recent hateful messages, shared resources to help prevent further disruptions and pledged to explore additional measures.

Spain Bradley is an expert in international law and human rights, and a scholar, educator and advocate who is passionate about promoting equity, diversity, inclusion and human dignity for all.

Johnson, whose research focuses on understanding mechanisms of gene regulation, will take the helm on Sept. 1.

Jarmond, who is coming from Boston College, will become UCLA’s ninth athletic director, replacing the retiring Dan Guerrero.

Christie, who currently serves as chair of the education department, will assume her role effective July 1.

Brookmeyer is an expert on how statistical tools can help address global public health challenges.

Bullard currently serves as dean of the College of Professional and Global Education at Cal State Los Angeles. He will begin at UCLA on Jan. 6, 2020.

Kang, who was the first person to serve in this role for the university, will return to his faculty position July 1, 2020.

Bernardo is an award-winning teacher and respected scholar who has taught at UCLA for 25 years. He appointment is effective July 1.

Emily A. Carter, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, will become UCLA’s new chief academic officer.

Strempel is an opera singer and professor of voice in the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She will start as inaugural dean of the music school effective July 8.

Waugh, who was named to the role in 2008, will step down effective June 30, 2019.

Goldman, who previously served as director of financial services for the UCLA Library system, is currently CFO for the University of Arizona.

He has served as interim vice chancellor since July 2016.

Brett Steele sat down with David Roussève, who served as the school's interim dean from 2015-2017, to discuss a variety of subjects.

Judith Smith has been appointed founding dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA’s newest school and the first school of music to be established in the University of California system.

Leading the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is "a mission I can embrace and get behind. ... This was the right fit for me," said the new dean.

'Everything the senate does, every decision we make, has the goal of achieving excellence at UCLA,' says Susan Cochran, chair of the UCLA Academic Senate.

Brett Steele, the director of London's Architectural Association School of Architecture, one of the world’s oldest and most influential schools of architecture, has been appointed dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

The associate dean at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs brings administrative and planning expertise and vast experience as an academic leader to her new position.

Nelson, who will begin on Nov. 14, has served as senior vice president and assistant general counsel for Hilton Worldwide since 2009.

Segura, who is a professor of political science at Stanford and a leading scholar in the politics of America’s growing Latino minority, will succeed Lois Takahashi.

Spisso talks with U Magazine editor David Greenwald about the opportunities ahead for UCLA Health and her vision for the future.