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The UC regents have borrowed a total of $2.7 billion to help close a funding gap in the UC Retirement Plan.

In three decades, the program has become a model of success at curbing solo car commutes, with 160 vanpools shuttling 2,000-plus riders more than 3.2 million miles a year.

UCLA professor of art history Lothar von Falkenhausen has been appointed honorary professor at Zhejiang University in China.

UCLA's assistant vice chancellor for environment, health and safety explains how the university has improved lab safety during the last few years and what UCLA’s next steps are.

Glen MacDonald, formerly the director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is the first holder of a new chair named after legendary conservationist John Muir. Mark Gold is now acting director of IoES.

Free tickets for UCLA's All-Staff Picnic are available for pickup through Aug. 4.

Dr. Ashley Busutti will be assuming the newly created role of medical director of Clinical Operations, UCLA Health.

Snehendu B. Kar, professor emeritus of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair award by the U.S.-India Educational Foundation.

Todd Presner, chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and professor of Germanic languages, comparative literature and Jewish Studies, has published the book, “HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities” with Harvard University Press.

David Roussève is the new associate dean for Academic Affairs in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Emily Scivoletto will join the UCLA School of Law as dean of students on Aug. 14, coming from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Steven P. Wallace, professor and chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2013 Betty and James E. Birren Senior Scholar Award.

Help make this year's UCLA All-Staff Picnic fun for your fellow Bruins — and add to your own enjoyment while you're at it — by serving a quick shift as a volunteer.

Ka-Yuet Liu, assistant professor of sociology at UCLA, was named as a 2014-2015 Hellman Fellow for her research on California vaccine requirements

A group of 47 eminent scientists who met in the laboratories of UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf produced two remarkable books documenting the earliest history of the Earth. Thirty-five of them will reunite at UCLA for a July 22-24 conference.

The complex task of introducing 9,000 incoming freshmen and transfer students to UCLA's campus and culture is a yearlong job for Roxanne Neal and her staff.

Back by popular demand after sold-out houses last summer, the Oscar Wilde classic, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” will be performed at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in five performances by the Chalk Repertory Theater, July 25-August 2.

Victoria Steele, who served for close to nine years as head of UCLA Library Special Collections before taking a post at the New York Public Library, will return to UCLA in August as interim head librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

UCLA’s Hammer Museum and KCRW are teaming up to present Made in L.A. Music, four nights of free, live, Los Angeles-based music in the museum courtyard over four weeks.

The UCLA Library system has established new unified loan periods to make it easier for UCLA and UC faculty, staff and students to manage items checked out from the Library’s circulating collections.

Clarissa Byrd brings comfort and understanding to children who are experiencing stress or trauma in the hospital’s emergency department.

This weekend marks the launch at UCLA's Billy Hammer Theater of “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary,” a month-long pageant of weekend showings of Brazilian film.

When confronted with a difficult job, Sam Houston Huffman always looks for a better way. As a facilities mechanic working in UCLA residence halls, he's been able to devise new ways to make costly, time-consuming repairs easier, cheaper and safer to complete.

UCLA professor emerita Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei will be honored by the Association for Asian Performance accomplishments that include her role as a 'founding mother' of Asian theater scholarship.