Faculty + Staff

Jayathi Y. Murthy, chair and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, has been appointed dean of UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced today.

Anthem, Inc. disclosed on Feb. 4 that it was the target of a very sophisticated cyber attack that potentially compromised information about UC students, retirees, employees and their dependents.

CaliParks.org aims to bring parks to everyone by making finding nearby parks and activities as easy as pulling out your smartphone.

Jillian Neuner raised $1,750 for UCLA research in honor of a friend battling Ewing's Sarcoma, one of the rarest forms of pediatric cancer.

An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.

Blake Allmendinger, a scholar of literature of the American West, has written a memoir about his mother, an eccentric recluse from whom he was estranged.

The Advisory Board Company's Consulting and Management Division announced on Tuesday that it has recognized the UCLA Health System with a national award for innovative initiatives that improved care quality and patient experience while lowering cost.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey will speak on the Criminal Justice Mental Health Project for the third annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture.

“The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism” co-authored by Robert E. Buswell Jr. of UCLA and Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan, has won the prestigious 2015 Dartmouth Medal for outstanding reference work of the American Library Association.

A research paper by Jason Cong, a Chancellor’s Professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, was selected as the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper in the 2015 Asia South-Pacific Design Conference.

UCLA is making available free software to the campus community that downloads in seconds and increases the chance that campus police or other local law enforcement agencies will be able to reunite owners with stolen electronic devices.

Dr. Victor Marder, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in the field of hematology research, died Jan. 29 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

Attorneys Lane Dilg and Ina Bryant have joined the UCLA Office of Legal Affairs as senior campus counsel.

UCLA engineering faculty members Yang Yang and Richard Kaner have been named 2015 fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Linda McDermott, night shift lead nurse in labor and delivery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, has spent nearly three decades assisting couples when their 'big day' occurs at night.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.

The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations welcomes best-selling author James Mann to discuss his latest book.

Dr. Richard Jackson, a professor of environmental health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame.

'Fragments of Extinction: An Environmental Sound-Art Project on the Acoustic Biodiversity of Rainforests' will be presented on Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m. at the California NanoSystems Institute.

Professor Jonathan Furner has assumed the post of chair of information studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Benjamin Nathan will join UCLA Health Sciences as the chief information officer for the David Geffen School of Medicine, effective on May 4.  Nathan will provide the vision and leadership for the administration, research and educational information systems of the medical school.

UCLA Recreation presents its annual "I Heart Walking" Feb. 9 - 12. Walk campus routes with your fellow Bruins and get a free T-shirt. 

As a part of its series on the films of DeMille, the UCLA Film and Television Archive screens “Union Pacific” Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Join fellow Bruins, family and friends on Sunday, March 8, for the 2nd Annual UCLA True Bruin Move and Groove 5K.