Faculty + Staff

Step forward to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's lifesaving work by joining the “Out of the Darkness” campus walk at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18 at UCLA's Drake Stadium.

A Q&A with Robert Foster, UCLA Anderson School of Management adjunct professor of decisions, operations and technology management and director of the Global Access Program.

Feature film ‘Dear White People’ — dubbed an ‘Advanced Course in Diversity ’ in a New York Times review — will be presented at 7 p.m., April 29 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater.

Raymond Knapp has been selected for the 2015 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Knapp will complete a one-month residency in Bogliasco, Italy, where he will complete his latest book on Haydn and American popular music.

Sriram Kosuri, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was honored today as a 2015 Searle Scholar, which recognizes young scientists for their contributions to chemical and biological research.

The Los Angeles Times Book Club comes to UCLA on Sunday, April 26, for a discussion about “The Boys of Summer,” a book by Roger Kahn about the reign of Jackie Robinson and other members of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.

The recipient of the 2015 My Last Lecture Award is Randall Rojas, assistant adjunct professor of economics and an alumnus who holds three UCLA degrees.

UCLA sociology professor emeritus David Lopez has been appointed inaugural UCLA faculty retirement liaison.

Dr. Owen Witte, the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, will receive the G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, the American Association for Cancer Research announced today.

Four UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 175 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Bioengineering faculty member Dino Di Carlo has been admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom.

UCLA bioengineering professor Dean Ho has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

UCLA electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh received an honorary doctorate from the Universit Autònoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

The University of California is streamlining the menu of investment funds available to employees through the UC Retirement Savings Program (RSP) — 403(b), 457(b), and Defined Contribution Plans.

Patricia Kerrigan, a cognitive intervention specialist at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, will receive the Nan Songer Distinguished Member Award from APHOES, a professional organization in her field.

If successful, the team’s voltage nanosensors would greatly enhance scientists’ ability to study the brain.

When Karen Griffiths lost her 2-year-old son to leukemia in 1980, it opened her eyes to the compassionate role of pediatric nurses — a role she fills today at UCLA.

UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl lectures on 'ISIS and the Enslavement and Trafficking of Women' on Thursday, April 9, 6-8 p.m. at UCLA Law.

Andrea Fraser, professor of new genres in the UCLA art department, will have a comprehensive survey of her work exhibited at the Museum de Moderne Salzburg in Austria.

Powerhouse vocalist Vickilyn Reynolds belts out crowd-pleasing jazz, blues and gospel numbers in her one-woman musical, “Hattie...What I Need You to Know,” at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, 8 p.m., April 11 and Sunday, 2 p.m., April 12.

Ragini Gill has been appointed new director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, as of May 4. Gill has been serving UCLA Health since 2006 as a retirement and benefits counselor as well as program manager for staff health and wellness. 

Chang-Jin 'CJ' Kim, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the 2015 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering.

Kathleen Salvaty, an experienced litigator and civil rights advocate, has been hired as UCLA’s Title IX officer.

Hear from UCLA sleep experts, take a nap, practice mindful meditation and more during the UCLA Sleep Well Campaign, Monday-Friday, April 6-10.

A 2001 book by UCLA political science professor Michael Chwe — “Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge” (Princeton University Press) —  has been chosen as the seventh selection for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s book club.