Faculty + Staff

UCLA is tied for first with 21 other campuses as one of the most sustainable universities in the country, after receiving a perfect score in the 2014 edition of the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll. The list includes three other UCs.

With as many accolades and laurels that have been showered on legendary film producer-director Stanley Kramer during his lifetime, would one more tribute — this one to celebrate his 100th birthday posthumously — make much of a...

For UC Merced sophomore Luis Fernando Gonzalez Haro, spending just two weeks at UCLA last month "opened up my world and what I can do and be."   Raised in the small town of Gustine in California’s Central Valley, where his family moved from...

In Memoriam: UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Charles Hopkins, the longest-serving employee at UCLA Film and Television Archive, died on July 27 at 69 from a number of health complications.

An infant is born prematurely at 22 weeks, weighing only about one pound and with bleeding in the brain. He tentatively clings to life, but in light of the fact that there is minimal likelihood he will recover a level of functional mental...

Beginning Saturday, Aug. 3, the northbound I-405 off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be closed until mid-December for construction of a longer and wider off-ramp.   The closure begins at 1 a.m. and will be in effect 24 hours a day. The new ramp...

It’s not what first lady Michele Obama had in mind with her Let’s Move! initiative, but that’s just what Americans did from 2008 to 2010 — at the height of what economists call the Great Recession.   A recent study by...

Chancellor Gene Block and more than 160 other university presidents and chancellors have urged President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to make it a national priority to increase federal spending on research and higher...

Gabriel Lobet, 14, a student at Culver City High School, uses an ophthalmoscope to examine the retinas of his mom, Elizabeth Calvin. He and other students from local middle and high schools examined their parents' brains Tuesday as part of a two-day...

Local elected officials recently joined professors from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and leaders of the Los Angeles Urban League and California Business Roundtable for a discussion about the unbalanced economic recovery being...

Amin Banani, founder of the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA, the western world’s first bachelor of arts program in Iranian studies, died July 28 in Santa Monica at 86.

Zocalo recently interviewed attorney David Codell, visiting Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law and Legal Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA,in the green room, where invited panelists answer fun, random questions just before they...

Like employers across the country, UC has been reviewing the legal, policy and operational implications of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) for the university and its...

Avis Ridley-Thomas (far left) and Wellford (Buzz) Wilms (center) with UCLA undergrads who took their class in "Restoring Civility: Understanding, Using and Resolving Conflict." After taking a training course on conflict mediation taught at UCLA...

In celebration of the exhibition "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," the Hammer Museum and KCRW–89.9 FM present free live music tonight at 7 p.m. curated by and featuring KCRW DJs with special guests. Enjoy sets by KCRW DJ Anne Litt...

   "Hollywood Bob" Goldberg explains in his online course how genetic engineering is carried out. His lectures, shot in a production studio and enlivened by archival images as well as animation, came about through a collaboration with...

"Cutie and the Boxer," which won the Best Director Award for Zachary Heinzerling at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is coming to UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater Aug. 11 as part of the Sundance Institute’s inaugural NEXT WEEKEND....

Dwaine Duckett, the University of California’s vice president for systemwide human resources and programs, issued the following statement on July 24 about the status of UC’s negotiations with the American Federation of State,...

She was a 93-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where the air was tainted with the smell of death. In 1945, she managed to escape from the Nazis into a forest when camp guards led her and other prisoners on a final death...