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Hecht is part of a group of 50 scholars and scientists addressing the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative that pledges to make all 10 campuses carbon neutral by 2025.

Jura played a major role in advancing scholarship in his field and in shaping UCLA’s Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics over the course of four decades.

Employees get help recovering from on-the-job injuries and building strength to prevent future injuries.

Five faculty members from various departments received grants in 2015 designed to increase the number of African Americans in doctoral programs and support their trajectory toward academic careers in the arts and sciences.

UCLA awardees are Dino Di Carlo, a professor of bioengineering; Jonathan Hopkins, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Benjamin Williams, an associate professor of electrical engineering.

The professor emeritus of the UCLA Department of History died on Jan. 16.

Bjork will share insights from his work as a renowned expert on human learning in UCLA's 120th Faculty Research Lecture on Feb. 17.

Dr. Joseph M. Pierre is a master of Shinkendo, the martial art of Japanese Samurai swordsmanship. He also hand-crafts traditional Japanese knives.

The 1988 Democratic nominee for president is a visiting professor of public policy at UCLA.

Design media arts professor Eddo Stern straddles the world of fine art and game design to ask fundamental questions about the nature of reality.

Terasaki, who earned three degrees from UCLA, developed the test that became the international standard method for tissue typing and was a generous benefactor to his alma mater.

In terms of number of faculty named, UCLA ranks 10th among all universities and research institutions worldwide and sixth in the U.S.

Jayathi Murthy, who became dean on Jan. 1, said she intends to increase the student roster by 1,000 and add 50 full-time faculty over the next several years.

Roy will serve as the inaugural director of the new UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, which launches in February.

New University of California policies prohibiting sexual violence and sexual harassment and governing the investigation and adjudication of sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations against students went into effect on Jan. 1.

Ann Karagozian, a longtime professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and former chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, has been named interim vice chancellor for research.  

The UCLA Vanpool Program is one of the largest employer-based vanpool programs in California.

Reiss was an accomplished physical chemist and theorist in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Michelle Caswell, an assistant professor of archival studies at UCLA, has helped launch an online archive that compiles first-person narratives.

The founding director of UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center is now vice chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences and chief executive officer of UCLA Health. And he’s still in awe of the brain and its complicated choreography.

UCLA today released this statement in response to an announcement by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and his wife, plant biologist Jane Shen-Miller, established two funds to benefit faculty and staff.

UCLA Newsroom revisits some of our favorite news items from the year. Publishing resumes on Jan. 4.

The closure, designed to save energy and money, runs until Friday, Jan. 1. Winter quarter starts Monday, Jan. 4.

Eunice Lee is the architect of KIM-CHI, a community-based program that induces more Korean-American immigrant women to get breast cancer screenings.