Faculty + Staff

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA professor of law, has been honored with the 2014 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

UCLA associate professor Katsuya Hirano's new book, "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan," explores the evolution of Japan's radical transformation.

Mona Simpson looks back on her precarious financial status at UC Berkeley and her beginnings as a writer.

UCLA animation professor Chuck Sheetz recently directed an episode of "The Simpsons," which aired on Fox on March 16.

Tony Chan, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics and president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Ira Kurtz, a UCLA professor of medicine, has received a $3 million gift from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation to fund research on the structural properties of key proteins in the kidney that affect its function in health and disease.

Dr. Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the UCLA Longevity Center, was appointed president-elect of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.

Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA professor of statistics and computer science, and Alan Yuille, UCLA professor of statistics, have won the 2013 PAMI Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award.

University of California President Janet Napolitano and staff employees from across the UC system will have a one-hour online conversation about campus climate survey results, compensation, benefits and more.

UCLA's Excellence in Leadership Award is given each year by Campus Human Resources in partnership with UCLA's Administrative Management Group.

Kathy L. Sims, director of the UCLA Career Center since 1995, will be retiring in June.

More than 900 staff, faculty, students and others took part in UCLA's inaugural True Bruin Move and Groove 5K on campus on March 30.

Deborah Nadoolman Landis has created a popular exhibition that illuminates the costume designer’s creative process as well as celebrates and explores costume design as a key component of cinema storytelling.

Five UC medical centers, including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, will collaborate to save $100-$150 million a year by leveraging systemwide strength.

Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice chancellor for enrollment management at UCLA, answers some offbeat questions in Zocalo's green room.

The University of California was informed today (March 28) that members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) voted to ratify a contract agreement with UC. In response to the ratification, Dwaine Duckett, UC’s ...

Cyclists and walkers on the UCLA south campus will soon enjoy a new designated bike and pedestrian route that will encourage more physical activity and open up new vistas to the Mathias Botanical Garden.

UC faculty and staff will soon receive an email asking them to complete a brief, voluntary survey about their disability status.

Reynaldo F. Macias, professor in Chicana and Chicano studies, has been selected to receive the 2014 National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies Scholar Award. The award was established in 1981 to recognize life achievement contributions of ...

Pamela Munro, professor of linguistics, and Chickasaw native speaker Catherine Willmond have won the 2010 Bloomfield Book Award.

In an interview, UCLA Physics Professor David Saltzberg shares what it’s like working as thescience consultant on the hit CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”

UCLA sociology professor John Heritage has been given the title of academician by the Academy of Social Sciences, an organization that promotes social science in the United Kingdom for public benefit.

If you were enrolled in UC’s Flexible Spending Accounts (Health and/or Dependent Care) in 2013, you have until April 15, 2014, to submit your reimbursement claim forms.

As part of the Healthy Campus Initiative, UCLA is joining the nationwide movement that was pioneered by the late Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey.

Yi Tang, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA division of physical sciences, has received the 2014 Eli Lilly Award in ...