Faculty + Staff

Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba of the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies will discuss her new book on Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m. in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 144 Haines Hall.

Advance tickets are just $2 for UCLA Women’s Basketball's 9th Annual Play 4 Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game versus Arizona State on Friday, Feb 20, 7 p.m., at Pauley Pavilion.

Professor Philip Kellman of the UCLA Department of Psychology was invited by the White House to participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C.

UCLA Musicology will open the floodgates of Bruin faculty and student musical talent Thursday, Jan. 29 with “UCLA Sings!” The free concert launches a two-day conference.

The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the UC regents is now open. Staff members will have until March 6 to submit an application. The new staff advisor will serve on the Board of Regents from July 2015 through June 2017.

Renowned UCLA transplant surgeon Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil has been awarded the Hospital Physician Leadership Award by the Los Angeles County Medical Association.  

UCLA Transportation’s focus on alternative transportation and success in reducing traffic and emissions at UCLA won an award from the California Environmental Protection Agency

UCLA employees interested in the convenience of sending their children to a school that’s close to campus should sign up.

Distinguished Professor Ali Mosleh, the Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the first director of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA.

UCLA Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was among eight faculty members in the school who were featured in Education Week’s annual “Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.”

Sarah Stein has been awarded a National Jewish Book Award for her work as the co-author of "Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950." Stein was honored in the category of Sephardic culture and was given the Mimi S. Frank Award. 

Join the UCLA Department of History for a panel discussion on World War I in the Fowler Museum's Lenart Auditorium on January 27 at 7 p.m. UCLA's James Gelvin, Ivan T. Berend and Geoffrey Symcox will be speaking.

UCLA History professor Brenda Stevenson, has received the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism from Womensenews.org.

Yoram Cohen, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named interim director of the Y and S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in the UCLA International Institute.

A paper published in JAMA Neurology by Dr. Brent Fogel, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, was cited as a “Best Advances of 2014” by the editorial advisory board of Neurology Today.

Timothy Deming, UCLA professor of chemistry, biochemistry and bioengineering, has been appointed as an associate editor of the American Chemical Societ Journal, Biomacromolecules.

Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black, UCLA professors of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, have been awarded a three-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on the immune system’s response to pathogens.

Wesley Thorne has joined UCLA as director of the UCLA Career Center, one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive centers of its kind.

Heather Adams, who transferred to UCLA from Santa Monica College in 2012, is now a staffer who helps transfer students find the support they need to succeed at UCLA.

Author and investigative journalist James Bramford, best known for his writing about the National Security Agency (NSA), will give two talks at UCLA as part of Data Privacy Month.

The UCLA professor, known as one of the fathers of the Internet, was honored for his “seminal contributions to the theory and practical development of the Internet.”

Let go of stress and enhance your physical and psychological well-being with Bruin MindFit, a new course offered free of cost and exclusively for faculty and staff by UCLA Recreation.

UCLA School of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law and Southwestern Law School have been awarded a one-year grant to establish a pilot program to help new attorneys launch and develop viable law practices serving low- and modest-income clients.

Law professor Cheryl Harris will moderate a faculty discussion on race and social inequality Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in Royce Hall 314. The event is free and open to the public.

In a message to the campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Dr. A. Eugene Washington will leave the campus at the end of February.