Faculty + Staff

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.

Margaret Steele, a veteran of development and fundraising for more than 30 years, has been named executive director of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation.

Social welfare assistant professor from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Ian Holloway has been selected as a 2015-16 Hellman Fellow for his research.

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.

'Re:Work,' a radio show produced by the UCLA Labor Center to highlight the contributions of workers in America, has won a national Gracie Award for Outstanding Portrait/Biography in the category for local, public and student radio and television.

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.

Scientists, entrepreneurs and investors will gather at the Entrepreneurship Summit at Kerckhoff Hall, 8:30 a.m.– 2 p.m., June 27, to discuss entrepreneurial opportunities in the growing biotech landscape of Los Angeles. 

Professor of art history Irene Bierman-McKinney, lauded by a colleague as 'one of the unsung intellectual forces of our field of Islamic art and architecture,' died on March 8, 2015.

Bestselling author and meditation teacher Pema Chödrön and Grammy-winning recording artist and Buddhist practitioner k.d. lang will provide guidance on how to live a well-balanced life at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 20 at UCLA's Royce Hall.

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.

UCLA UniCamp will move to Lake Perris for Session 1, June 20-26, due to the 10,000-acre wildfire burning in the San Bernardino Mountains near Camp River Glen.

Urban planning policy analyst Joan Ling, an adjunct professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, takes part in a Zócalo Public Square discussion at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 23.

Social and civic entrepreneur Shawn Landres is serving as Civil Society Fellow in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs through the fall 2015 quarter.

MarySue Heilemann, associate professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, will present the 2015 National Institute of Nursing Research Lecture on June 24 at the National Institutes for Health.

Braving floods, fires and vampire mosquitoes, UCLA professor Susan Perry has spent 25 years chasing capuchin monkeys through the forests of Costa Rica. Her data have transformed what we know about these fascinating primates.

Beverly Lynch, professor of information studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, has received the 2015 Beta Phi Mu Award from the American Library Association.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents the television play "Black Monday" and an episode of "East Side/West Side" at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 19 at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Dr. James B. Atkinson has been named the interim associate vice chancellor and president of UCLA Hospital System. He serves in this role while the search for a replacement for Dr. David Feinberg continues.

Pick up your free ticket by July 31 for this summer's All-Staff Picnic, taking place 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 11, on Dickson Plaza.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been selected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching until 2019.

A national leader in identifying dangerous chemical exposures and then applying the findings toward regulations to protect health, John Froines has spent his career pursuing both.

More than $220,000 was raised for the Donald and Pat Shoup Endowed Fellowship in Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Professor Christine Dunkel Schetter begins her new role on July 1.

The UCLA Hammer Museum screens 'What Tomorrow Brings,' the story of the first all-girls' school in a remote Afghan village, 7:30–9:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 17.

UCLA students go underground to the large, open spaces in UCLA’s parking structures to perfect their skills for competition and the pure love of performing.