The UCLA Law Fellows Program, which prepares high-potential undergraduate students and college graduates from diverse backgrounds for careers in law, has been awarded a $125,000 two-year grant.
If you're eligible as a UCLA employee to participate in UC Living Well, you have until Dec. 15 to earn a $75 reward for earning points by completing wellness activities.
UCLA social welfare professor Jorja Leap has been awarded a $200,000, two-year funding commitment from the California Wellness Foundation to create the UCLA Luskin Watts Center for Nonprofit Management.
Special Olympics World Games executives on Nov. 30 presented UCLA Chancellor Gene Block with a commemorative torch to thank the campus for hosting athletes and events last summer.
Researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research have received a $400,000 grant to find out why individuals who receive both Medi-Cal and Medicare benefits are rejecting the new state-managed health care pilot program.
Harran was honored for building new chemical compounds that are used to drive scientific research; Black for his study of genetic regulation at the RNA level.
The UCLA Distinguished Professor of History and Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on Dec. 9.