Faculty + Staff

UCLA Fleet and Transit has launched a more convenient BruinCar vehicle rental service featuring a self-service 24/7 vehicle pick-up and drop-off system at a new on-campus location in Parking Structure 8, Level 2 (south side) at 555...

Dr. David H. Solomon, who led a major expansion of the UCLA Department of Medicine, died July 9. He was 90.

Solomon, who created UCLA's geriatrics program and was the first board-certified endocrinologist in Los Angeles, died July 9 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 90.

  UCLA Arts supporter and UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music principle donor Herb Alpert was awarded the National Medal of Arts Award by President Obama on July 11 for his lifetime contributions to the arts. Alpert is best known as the trumpet...

If approved by the full Board of Regents on July 18, the Secretary of Homeland Security will leave the Obama Administration to lead the university system.

Much of the world’s attention is now focused on what’s taking place in a hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela, that country’s national hero and beloved freedom fighter, lies critically ill.   Nearly 20...

Bastian hit the books at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library to research her exhibition. When Jennifer Bastian was invited to cook up an exhibition for UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, where she is a visual resources...

UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies will showcase its strengths in Taiwanese research and culture as part of the new Spotlight Taiwan Project, an agreement between UCLA and the government of Taiwan.

Two professors at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) are studying how Los Angeles can reduce its water imports and better capture, store and reuse water for a more sustainable water supply. Stephanie Pincetl, director of...

Zocalo recently interviewed Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, in the green room, where invited panelists answer fun, random questions just before they appear before an audience to...

   

Dr. Karin Nielsen, professor of pediatric infectious diseases, directs the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies. Dr. Karin Nielsen’s relaxed, easygoing manner belies the enormous workload she carries as a professor of pediatric infectious...

Renowned for his efforts to negotiate a peace accord with the Palestinian Authority at Camp David and Taba in 2000 and 2001, former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami recently told an audience gathered at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall that...

Beginning July 1, faculty and other non-represented academic personnel will receive a 2 percent general salary increase, and non-represented staff employees will receive average increases of 3 percent (individual increases may vary), subject...