Faculty + Staff

Contribution rates to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) for both the university and faculty and staff are going up beginning July 1.   While the university will pay 12 percent of pay, up from 10 percent, contributions for faculty and...

On July 23, the iPalpiti Soloists will kick off the annual Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, which returns to Korn Convocation Hall at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. These talented musicians will join the Ensemble in Promptu...

In partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA is designing a new curriculum for the training of doctoral students in art history to prepare them to become future leaders in the field.   A $600,000 grant from the Andrew W....

Hundreds of blue-and-gold wearing fans happily cheered through the heat at Jackie Robinson Stadium Thursday afternoon to celebrate the UCLA team that defeated Mississippi State in Omaha to capture UCLA’s first College World Series title...

California Gov. Jerry Brown enacted a spending plan Thursday that increases the University of California's state appropriation by 5 percent in the coming fiscal year and sets the stage for modest growth in financial support over the subsequent three...

Dr. Warwick J. Peacock is an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, and this award recognizes both innovation and great leadership. 

When Kathleen Micham left her student services job in UCLA Summer Sessions to take a staff position in an academic department two years ago, the change required much more than a move across campus from one office to another.   Stepping into...

In 2008, a delegation led by Chancellor Gene Block and former Vice Provost of International Studies J. Nicholas Entrikin visited Peking University (PKU) with an interesting idea: Forge a collaboration between the two powerhouse research...

UCLA athletic teams had already won the most national championships of any NCAA school, but never the baseball title — until tonight. The Bruins closed that gap in their legacy of sports excellence by sweeping the College World Series in...

Interim director named for Office of Human Research Protection Program Alison Orkin has been named interim director for the Office of the Human Research Protection Program (OHRPP) in the Office of Research Administration, following the...

Theater Professor Gary Gardner, who spent 40 years teaching at UCLA and directing wildly successful student musical productions that entertained the entire campus, died Saturday, June 15, of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 69.

UCLA neurosurgery resident Brandon Evans was recently sitting at the back of a plane headed for Dallas with his wife and two young daughters when the loudspeaker crackled with an entreaty that is commonplace in movies, but rare in real life: Is...

Jason Ernst, an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Award that recognizes outstanding junior faculty.  

Several UC graduate students, including two from UCLA, had the opportunity recently to share their expertise with California lawmakers on key policy issues — such as conservation and energy use.   Kristen Figueira, a UCLA graduate...