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In conjunction with the exhibition “Making Strange,” the Rangoli Dance Company will perform a late afternoon dance program 4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 30 at the Fowler Museum.

Café Med, at UCLA’s Center for Health Sciences, will reopen on Monday, Aug. 17, with the introduction of a new area serving sushi, El Pollo Loco, sandwiches and the grill.

Bhagwan Chowdhry, professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is serving as the inaugural visiting scholar at Stellar Development Foundation.

Todd Yeates, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the 2016 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Delano Award for Computational Biosciences.

"Hawaiian Plant Life: Vegetation and Flora" (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014) by Phil Rundel, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and two co-authors won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award of Excellence in Natural Science from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has established the Barbara Boyle Promising Producers Prize.

Héctor Calderón, professor of Spanish American, Mexican, and Chicano literature and cultures, was named chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Brad Shaffer, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the 2015 recipient of the Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology.

Immerse yourself in Afghan culture and cuisine during the UCLA Hammer Museum's 'Conflict Kitchen and Afghan Cuisine,' Wednesday, Aug. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Billy Wilder Theater.

UCLA's Charles Corbett, professor of operations management and sustainability, has been named the IBM Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Patients of UCLA’s kidney transplant program — already the best of the nation’s largest programs in terms of survival rates — will find comfort and convenience in a state-of-the-art new home thanks to the generosity of philanthropist Connie Frank.

The MedDreamers fundraiser on Aug. 16 supports scholarships for undocumented students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Thousands of UCLA staff members got 'thanks!' from campus leaders at the 11th annual All-Staff Picnic.

A film of 'Twilight: Los Angeles,' the acclaimed one-woman documentary theatrical piece by Anna Deavere Smith, will be screened by the Hammer Museum on Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.

No-Hee Park, dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry and Distinguished Professor of Dentistry and of Medicine, has decided to step down as dean on June 30, 2016, and return to his research and teaching.

Elisa Long, an expert in probability and statistics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, wrote a column that appeared in the Washington Post about how statistics helped guide her through life, death and 'The Price is Right.'

President Napolitano has appointed a systemwide task force of UC faculty, staff and administrators to help develop a new set of retirement benefits options for UC to offer future employees hired on or after July 1, 2016.

Four recent UCLA retirees reminisce about their experiences and offer words of wisdom to their fellow Bruins.

James Welling, professor of photography at UCLA’s department of art, will have a solo exhibition that features 50 pieces that demonstrate painter Andrew Wyeth’s formative influence on Welling’s career.

Dr. Aichi Chien, an associate professor of radiological sciences, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bee Foundation to advance her research on the computational analysis of brain aneurysms.

Staff meteorologist James Murakami has been forecasting the weather for Westwood and the surrounding region for 33 years.

Catalina eddy? June gloom? Santa Ana winds? UCLA staff meteorologist James Murakami defines common Southern California weather terms.

Dominique Hanssens, Bud Knapp Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, is the recipient of an award for his lifetime contributions to the theory and practice of marketing.

Dr. Timothy Miller, a UCLA emeritus professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, was honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America with an Excellence in the Sciences Award.

Janet Ruth Hadda, a Yiddish professor of Germanic languages, psychoanalyst and biographer, died June 23 in from metastatic cancer. She was 69.