Faculty + Staff

'Sounds of the Season' will be presented by the UCLA choral program on Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m., at Schoenberg Hall.

UCLA is marking the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 20 by introducing a new technology tool to help smokers seen in the UCLA Health System quit for good.

UCLA professor Kathleen McHugh has been appointed as the associate dean for diversity and equity at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Cardiologist Leigh Reardon’s experiences as a child open-heart surgery patient taught him an empathy that creates a uniquely open relationship with his patients.

Ralph H. Turner, a UCLA sociologist who played a founding role in the development of the field of collective behavior and social movements, died April 5 in Los Angeles at the age of 94.

UCLA faculty and staff are invited to an information session on Dec. 1 to learn about cloud computing services newly available through Information Technology Services.

Mona Simpson, professor of English and one of UCLA’s most celebrated faculty authors, has published a new novel, "Casebook," elucidating the inner workings of a family in Santa Monica, California.

If 2,200 Bruins donated to any of UCLA’s funds prior to the UCLA-USC football game Nov. 22, alumni Karren Ganstwig and Howard Welinsky pledged to give an additional $100,000 to UCLA.

Peter Thomas Dalis, who served as director of athletics at UCLA for 19 years, died Saturday, Nov.15, at his home in Pacific Palisades due to complications from multiple myeloma.

In her new book, “Resilience and Aging,” UCLA geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Helen Lavretsky says a person’s negative reaction to stress can be offset by enhanced resilience — the ability to bounce back from adversity.

The Center for Middle East Development will honor Leonard Binder, a scholar of Middle Eastern politics.

This year, UCLA's annual food drive is also part of a competition to donate more than the university's cross-town rival.

Michael Eselun, certified interfaith chaplain for the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, explores "It could be worse," a common coping strategy for dealing with cancer.

UCLA mathematician Terence Tao talked prime numbers and more in a lively conversation with pundit Stephen Colbert on the 'The Colbert Report' on Nov. 12.

UCLA’s annual campus closure will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 24 and will continue through Jan. 4, 2015, with the campus reopening on Monday, Jan. 5.

Casandra Rauser has been named director of UCLA's “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles” Grand Challenge project.

UCLA information studies professor Johanna Drucker has published a new book, 'Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production,' which she outlines the importance of learning to interpret how visual forms not only present knowledge but produce it.

UCLA urban planning professor Susanna Hecht has been awarded the Elinor Melville Prize for the best book on Latin American environmental history.

If they choose to pay for it, UCLA faculty and staff can choose to enroll in the ARAG legal plan, which is being offered with an enhanced identity theft benefit, during Open Enrollment.

The work of Nobel Laureate Lloyd Shapley, UCLA professor emeritus in the departments of mathematics and economics, will appear in 'The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2014.'

Professor emeritus of anthropology Peter Hammond, who traveled the world for his academic studies and ethnographic research, died on Oct. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 86.

Jeffery F. Miller, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, is the new director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced today.

James Welling, a professor of photography at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, is exhibiting his work at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Julia Koerner, a lecturer in the department of architecture and urban design, received the Rising Star Award at the Global 3d Printing Awards, given by the 3d Print Show London 2014.

UCLA has received the 2014 Sustainability Award from the Association of Physical Plant Administration.