Faculty + Staff

Twitter has been a flurry of ecstatic tweets as high school seniors across the nation learn if they've been admitted to UCLA’s fall 2013 freshman class. Starting last Friday, March 22, at 5 p.m., they got the news by...

Docents recently led a group of UCLA Staff Assembly members on a tour of the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. For the first time in several years, the garden is seeking volunteer docents. No background in botany is required. Training consists of...

Construction beginning Saturday, March 23, will cause serious traffic woes on Coldwater Canyon, and though UCLA commuters most likely already use roads farther west, displaced Coldwater drivers could increase traffic on favored Bruin routes.

SACRAMENTO — A spirited contingent of 40 volunteer faculty, staff, students and friends descended on the State Capitol Tuesday, UC Day, to tell 33 Los Angeles area state legislators and their representatives how UCLA has...

When spring break begins this weekend, some UCLA students are packing bathing suits and heading to the beach, but other Bruins are packing grubby work clothes to restore the bayou in New Orleans or headed for research in the mountains.

Members of the UCLA women’s basketball team erupted in cheers after learning they had earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They will face No. 14 Stetson on Saturday, March 23, in first-round action in the Oklahoma City Region. This...

    If you want to see a dancer take her art form to a higher plane, look up. Way way up.   Amelia Rudolph, a choreographer and performer, took a gravity-defying stroll down the eight-story-high Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center...

Courtney Lyder (photo by Joe Toreno) So you call yourself a foodie? Come talk to us when you’ve got menu items named after you at several different restaurants.   That’s the case with Courtney Lyder, the charismatic dean of...

Jonathan Fielding is a man with many hats. Not only is he the founding director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, but he's also a faculty member in the Fielding School of Public Health and a philanthropist....

You can run off to join the circus. Or you can use the circus to train for a career in performing arts. The former is an All-American childhood dream. The latter is the latest inventive approach to entertainment education from the UCLA School of...

Jan Kempenaers took this shot of a monument near the village of Tjentište in Bosnia-Herzegovina  in 2007. Photographer Jan Kempenaers wanted to shoot ruins. What he found instead were spomeniks ― futuristic, socialist...

Nobel Laureate James Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953, attracted an overflow crowd hoping to claim a seat at the IMED Seminar Monday at the CNSI Auditorium. With people arriving as early as...

  Atop the dormant Mauna Kea volcano, 13,796 feet above the island of Hawaii, the W. M. Keck Observatory has been quietly revolutionizing what is known about the universe.   Scientists using the powerful twin telescopes at the...

A globe-trotting work of art is coming to the Hammer — and visitors are invited to contribute to its evolution.   Over the course of four marathon days — from Thursday, March 21, through Sunday, March 26, — the Domestic...

Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya speaks at "Israel in 3-D." If you didn’t already know what a complicated place Israel is, you certainly had a better idea after completing “Israel in 3-D,” the one-day university recently...

An exhibition at the Fowler Museum, "Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe," features 50 stunning 19th- to 20th-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the...