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Getting into Neil Garg's course "was like ‘The Hunger Games,'" said one student. "I know people who waited two years to get in. People have celebratory dances when they learn they’re enrolled."

If you park in UCLA Parking Structure 4, 7  or 8, you may have noticed the elevator doors urging you to take the stairs, a clever message from UCLA Transportation.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Luskin Senior Fellow and L.A. Times editor-at-large Jim Newton assess Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first year in office in the 'Thinking L.A.' UCLA/Zocalo Public Square event.

Anastassia Alexandrova, an assistant professor in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.

UCLA professor Mike Rose of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies discusses his book, 'The Mind at Work,' which was recently re-published as a 10th anniversary edition.

UCLA's Fowler Museum will screen 'Narco Cultura,' a documentary about folk saints and the drug war in Mexico and the U.S., on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m.

UCLA professors Jody Heymann and Fernando Torres-Gil contributed to the book, “The Upside of Aging: How Long Life is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy, and Purpose.”

Assistant professor Chandra Ford will lead a $1.5-million study by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Kaiser Permanente to examine factors preventing HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment among racial and ethnic minorities and people 50 and older.

Leobardo Estrada, an associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been elected 2014-15 vice chair/chair-elect of the UCLA Academic Senate.

Professor Donald Neuen, longtime director of choral conducting and choral studies at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, led his final concert on June 7 at Royce Hall.

UCLA Staff Assembly's newly elected Executive Board members take office on July 1, 2014.

Sarna, who holds the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Chair, will serve a one-year term while Dean Courtney Lyder is on leave.

Employee contributions to the University of California retirement plan will increase on July 1, 2014.

Betsy Metzgar, assistant director for scheduling and information systems in the UCLA Events Office, has worked at UCLA for 30 years and commuted via the UCLA Vanpool for the last 23.

UCLA staff members Henry Charles and Teresa Roth have have been selected by the Staff Assembly to receive the Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Awards.

Eileen Scallen, associate dean for curriculum and academic affairs and adjunct professor of law at the UCLA School of Law, has published 'Working Together in Law: Teamwork and Small Group Skill for Legal Professionals,' which looks at group dynamics and cooperation.

Edward Soja, UCLA professor emeritus of urban planning, has published a new book, 'My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanizations.'

Jody Priselac, executive director of Center X teacher training program in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and associate dean for community programs, has been named the recipient of UCLA Staff Assembly's 2014 Faculty/Staff Partnership Award. 

The 'Code for the Mission' contest seeks faculty, staff and students to create apps exploring the liberal arts, tackling health care problems and closing the education gap.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will screen the 1923 silent films “The Bright Shawl” and “The Fighting Blade” this Friday, June 6, 7:30 p.m.

The University of California and several partners have released a new version of a free tool that helps researchers and their institutions create effective data management plans required by the federal government.

Mignon Moore, UCLA professor of sociology, and her spouse, Elaine Harley, received the LGBT Heritage Award from the Los Angeles City Council, which was presented by Mayor Eric Garcetti on May 30.

Brenda Stevenson, UCLA professor of history has received the university’s 2014 Gold Shield Faculty Award for outstanding scholarship, teaching and service.

UCLA’s Fowler Museum hosts “Down to Earth: Buggy Petting Zoo” on Sunday, June 8, 2-4 p.m.

Their Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is leading a very personal fight to find treatments and extend lives — including that of their son.