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UCLA BruinTech’s 2015-16 Executive Board, a campuswide team of information technology experts, has taken office.

Refik Anadol’s recent collaboration with LA Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen ''Visions of America:Amerique Audio/Visual Performance'' has been selected by Prix Ars Electronica jury to be screened during Ars Electronica Animation Festival in Linz, Austria. 

Users of BruinBuy, UCLA on iTunes, MyUCLA, CCLE and nearly 700 other UCLA online applications that require UCLA students, staff and faculty to sign in will notice some changes to the login pages beginning Aug. 30.

Café Med, at UCLA’s Center for Health Sciences, will reopen on Monday, Aug. 17, with the introduction of a new area serving sushi, El Pollo Loco, sandwiches and the grill.

Patients of UCLA’s kidney transplant program — already the best of the nation’s largest programs in terms of survival rates — will find comfort and convenience in a state-of-the-art new home thanks to the generosity of philanthropist Connie Frank.

UCLA faculty, staff and alumni get discounted tickets to six upcoming 'UCLA Nights with the Angels' games in August and September.

Attend a UCLA Staff Assembly presentation on being an effective caretaker of aging family members, 12-1 p.m., Wednesday, July 22, at the Fowler Museum's Lenart Auditorium.

Traffic throughout Westwood Village will be impacted from 2:15-3:15 p.m. on Thursday, July 23, when the Special Olympics World Games — which take place July 25-Aug. 2 — officially begin with a torch run along Westwood Boulevard.

How to get proper exercise while traveling: Guidance from a UCLA Health physical therapist.

UCLA's Campus Cat Network, a team of staff and faculty volunteers that takes care of the small population of homeless cats that reside on campus, is seeking additional members.

Searching online for jobs systemwide at the University of California just got easier, thanks to a revamped jobs website.

Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, will appear on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on July 15 as co-host of a tribute to the archive, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Cathryn Leff, patient liaison/analyst at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, has been appointed to the board of directors of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

The UCLA Administrative Management Group is recognizing Raellen Man, Michael Heafey and La Shonda Coleman as the recipients of the organization's annual leadership awards.

The 2015 Research Conference on Aging, a free event hosted by UCLA GeroNet, will take place 8 a.m. to noon, Thursday, July 9, in UCLA’s Ackerman Grand Ballroom.

UCLA Staff Assembly's 2015-16 Executive Board members, elected by staff members in a campuswide vote, took office on office on July 1, 2015.

UCLA Hitch Suites was lauded at the 45th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards presentation. The awards recognize the best design projects in Los Angeles County from the past year.

Susan Akens has been appointed executive director of UCLA School of Law’s Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Law Program, as of July 1.

UCLA computer resource specialist Michael Fehr and Naomi Nakamura of UC San Francisco have been elected staff representatives to the University of California Retirement System Advisory Board.

Shaina Zaidi, a former UCLA Women’s Basketball student-athlete, has been named director of the Bruin Varsity Club by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA will present “Singular Spaces," an exhibition on view from April 12 until Sept. 6 that features photographs of Spanish art environments made by self-taught artists across the Iberian Peninsula.

Zocalo and UCLA will host a discussion about the policies, services and street strategies that will help homeless people stay off the streets, 7:30 -9:30 p.m., Monday, June 29, at the Plaza on Olvera Street.

A gathering of the UCLA campus community will be held at noon Thursday, June 25, to honor the nine lives lost in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh has invited members of the campus community to volunteer at the Special Olympics World Games, on campus July 25-Aug. 1.

Clinton Bench has been named the new director of UCLA Fleet and Transit. He previously served as manager of Transit Service Planning for the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization.