faculty news

This position in the UCLA Herb Alert School of Music will help ensure that the program will attract the highest caliber of jazz instruction.

Sherie is a world-renowned immunologist and Don is an award-winning professor of marketing research. They have both left their imprints on campus.

With 30,000 guests expected on June 14, staff and faculty who usually drive may want to leave their cars at home.

Evolutionary geneticist is being honored for his record of undergraduate teaching, research and university service.

The new program gives 10 faculty the opportunity to develop their ideas under the guidance of Startup UCLA staff, venture capitalists and other experts.

Bath is credited with inventing the Laserphaco Probe, a device she patented in 1988 to improve cataract surgery.

In this Q&A about their book, UCLA faculty Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share discuss the role critical media literacy plays in our information-overloaded world.

“Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race” also provides insight into the history of Southern California’s Inland Empire.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching provides services and resources for faculty of all teaching styles and needs.

John Duncan helped shape Korean Studies at UCLA into one of the premier programs in the United States.

The center will hold a celebration May 23 to highlight the power of music in the promotion of health.

Alan Castel says that some forms of memory actually can improve when we get older.

Students and faculty from the social welfare department in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs assist mothers and children seeking asylum in the United States.

The internationally renowned scholar and composer of African music died on March 13 at his home in Legon, near Accra, the capital of his native Ghana.

Flint has been named a fellow of the society, a prestigious academy that includes some of the world’s most eminent scientists.

Johnson was elected in recognition of her “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

Faculty and staff can still contribute to efforts to help end poverty in the greater Los Angeles region, focusing on housing, education and financial stability.

In just 100 years, UCLA has grown into a world-class center of learning, research and health care.

The External Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, launched by J.R. DeShazo, will advise the Environmental Protection Agency on the benefits and costs of its policies.

Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who will be on “60 Minutes” April 21, continues to seek insight from the statues and for the living descendants of their makers.

UCLA’s Keith Holyoak takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying human intelligence, critical thinking and creativity.

Ziva Cooper, of the UCLA Cannabis Research Institute, will direct interdisciplinary teams of scholars with specialties in medicine, public health, policy, science and law.

Karst, an influential scholar, teacher and longtime faculty member who had a profound effect in shaping UCLA School of Law, died April 9. He was 89.

Elisabeth Le Guin, Catherine Opie, Sylvan Oswald, and Lothar von Falkenhausen were selected for the honor.

Wolpert, who published more than a dozen scholarly books, is revered for his contributions to literature and the history of South Asia.