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Gerald Wilson, 96, a music legend who enlivened packed jazz history classes at UCLA with his memories of working with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles and other jazz icons, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles two weeks after contracting pneumonia.

Dr. Saleh Salehmoghaddam died on Sept. 11, in Los Angeles. He was 66. For more than 30 years, he served as an exceptionally devoted physician and teacher.

Dr. John L. Fahey, an emeritus professor in UCLA's departments of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics and of medicine, and a key member of the UCLA AIDS Institute, died on Aug. 19, 2014.

The California NanoSystems Institute is hosting a core lab open house on Tuesday, Oct. 2114. Join in for an afternoon of compelling science and a fun opportunity to learn about the world-class laboratories.

Test drive an electric vehicle at UCLA on Tuesday, Sept. 6, noon-4 p.m. during the Drive an Electric Vehicle event.

Shred sensitive documents like financial statements and wipe out digital data from your old data storage devices for free on Saturday, Sept. 13, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at the main branch of UCLA's University Credit Union.

Dr. George Bartzokis, a UCLA neuroscientist who originated the theory that the degeneration of the brain’s myelin contributed to many developmental and degenerative diseases, died on August 22.

UCLA Anderson Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry is making the latest studies in the fields of finance and accounting more accessible and easier for the general public to understand, and he hopes that may start a trend.

Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named to Politico magazine's "Politico 50" list of "thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction."

Learn how to safeguard the health of your family at Liver Diseases: Update 2014, a free educational seminar presented by UCLA's Pfleger Liver Institute, Prominent and respected specialists will offer patients, families and members of the community ...

In August, four researchers formed Team UCLA to take part in Charity Treks, a weeklong bike ride to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research at the UCLA AIDS Institute and the Emory Vaccine Research Center.

Next month, Professor Stephen Hubbell will become the first American in 40 years to receive a Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations.

“Whiteness as Property,” a seminal article by Cheryl Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law, will be the focus of a Critical Race Studies Symposium at UCLA Law, Oct. 2-4.

Dr. Denis Evseenko’s bold vision of translational science is already blazing new trails in research of regenerative stem cells and their relationship to cancer at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Broad Center for Stem Cell Research at UCLA.

UCLA faculty and staff enjoy discounts on on UCLA Bruins sports.

UCLA Campus Human Resources is recruiting participants for the 2015 Staff Enrichment Program, a highly successful program designed to foster career development and provide skill-building opportunities for staff in administrative support positions.

Teresa Roth, coordinator of the medicine residency program for the past 31 years in UCLA's Department of Medicine, is the winner of the 2014 Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Award.

Robert Sbordone, an authority in clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain damage and post-traumatic stress disorder and a former researcher at UCLA’s NeuroPsychiatric Institute, passed away on Aug. 3 in Mission Viejo, California.

Enlist your organizational and interpersonal skills, creativity and flexibility to serve as a project leader or task captain for the sixth annual UCLA Volunteer Day on Monday, Sept. 29.

Former state legislator Sheila Kuehl and former Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver will participate in a Sept. 16 candidates forum hosted by UCLA in partnership with the Los Angeles Business Council and the Century City Chamber of Commerce.

A team of UCLA researchers has received a $2-million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to explore nanoscale 2DL materials that have breakthrough potential in electronics, optoelectronics, bioelectronics and energy conversion and storage.

For the sixth year in a row, the UCLA School of Law has been named one of the Top 10 Best Law Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine.

Stacy J. Park, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been awarded a two-year, $80,000 grant by the Prevent Cancer Foundation to study the role e-cigarettes might play in the development of lung cancer.

Download the free new UCLA Bruins Gameday app for everything you need to navigate UCLA football plus well men’s and women’s basketball on game day.  From UCLA Athletics, the app also features:

UCLA, USC, Caltech are collaborating in creating a National Science Foundation-funded center to translate scientific and engineering research into technology for the marketplace.