Faculty + Staff

Beginning at 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, people driving east on Wilshire Boulevard will not be able to get on the I-405 northbound ramp because of construction.   The closure will be in effect 24 hours a day for 90 days with an estimated...

Brett Hundley (left) and the Bruins are getting ready to take on Nevada in their season opener Saturday, Aug. 31, in the first of six home games scheduled for the Rose Bowl. Faculty and staff can purchase season tickets with reserved seating for...

With $512 million in gifts and pledges, UCLA reached historic fundraising heights for the fiscal year ending June 30. The amount is UCLA's largest ever for a single fiscal year, surpassing the previous high of $509 million, set in 2001–02. A...

Urban planning lecturer Ted Bardacke of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will help advise Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Today marks the beginning of a new era for Ted Bardacke, a lecturer in urban planning. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently named Bardacke to the post of deputy director of the new sustainability office. He begins his new role today....

Haydee Licari, a teacher of Spanish and English as a second language at Dana Middle School in San Pedro, has seen current immigration trends reflected in her classroom. In recent years, her student population has shifted from being primarily of...

While on a yearlong sabbatical at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Luisa Iruela-Arispe received some happy news: She had been named the winner of the 2013 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, a $30,000 award...

                    Farming is flourishing in Los Angeles County, according to a new report by urban planning graduate students at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The first-ever...

Source: Los Angeles Sports Council Earlier this year city officials announced that Los Angeles would try to become the site for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But to win the right to host the city’s third Olympics, L.A. boosters must first...

As students listen in, engineering professor Eric Hoek, (center in plaid shirt) advise Fijian villagers on how water can be transported safely from a spring deep in the jungle. Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and...

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin basketball standout, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Tuesday to visit sick kids and cancer patients. Farmar signed autographs, gave out gift bags and posed with patients, like Chico, 9,...

Teresa Barnett and her staff of three at UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research have their work cut out for them: Document the history of Los Angeles and its environs. Since its founding in 1959, the center has amassed oral histories...

Spend a day picking the brains of screenwriters and creative writers who now teach the art of writing. The UCLA Extension free-to-all Writers Faire will be held in the Young Hall courtyard at UCLA on August 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This festive day...

The grassy slopes of the Fowler’s UCLA Arts Council Amphitheater will be the place to be Sunday from 4-5 p.m. to see Noah and the MegaFauna, a nine-piece band that mixes indie folk with jazz and big band swing to create music...

Leaders of the Working Smarter initiative, which already has saved the University of California more than $289 million, took a big step forward recently when they and counterparts from California State University recently hosted a conference to...