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Walk and win in 'I Heart Walking'
Walk and win in "I Heart Walking," presented by UCLA Recreation. Starting today and continuing through Thursday, Feb. 13, join fellow Bruins in lunchtime walks to get refreshed and improve your health. Walks begin each day at 12:10 p.m. and 12:15...
Staff members break down barriers by learning Spanish
When Mark Speare was asked a year and a half ago whether he thought managers in health sciences might want to take time out of their busy schedules to take a 10-week class at UCLA to learn basic Spanish, the chief human resources officer for...
Q&A: Epidemiologist Alex Ortega likes to rap
The UCLA professor of public health and psychiatry answered a few off-the-cuff questions in the Zocalo green room before a panel discussion on how Angelenos eat.
Staff News — Feb. 10, 2014
Center for the Art of Performance director Edmunds named 'catalyst in residence' at Pew Center
Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, became The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s first...
Out and About: Rwanda -- Building a nation from a nightmare
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda will talk about his nation's recovery from the genocide of 1994, its subsequent economic advances and future challenges at a Fe. 12 dinner cohosted by UCLA's Center for World Health and the Los Angeles World...
Don't stress; live a little
Demanding careers… relationship problems… financial struggles … family strife, not to mention the hour you just spent stuck in traffic — to be sure, life can be stressful. But with evidence continuing to mount that carrying all of that mental...
Out and About: UCLA football coach Jim Mora unveils this year's recruiting class
Join UCLA football coach Jim Mora, his coaching staff and the UCLA football team Wednesday, Feb. 5, to celebrate the 2014 Signing Class at Pauley Pavilion. Last season, UCLA had six freshman all-Americans, three of whom topped nearly every...
Out and About: Bruins honor Wooden’s 1973 championship basketball team
UCLA will honor John Wooden’s 1973 UCLA NCAA championship men’s basketball team on Sunday, March 2, at 6 p.m. during UCLA’s final home game of the season. The team will be honored at a pre-game reception and halftime ceremony as...
Out and About: Madeleine Albright delivers Luskin Lecture, receives UCLA Medal
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talked to a sold-out Royce Hall audience Wednesday about the difficulty of creating effective foreign policy in the face of rapid technological change and growing global interdependence....
Changing people's lives — one groundbreaking material at a time
“I’ve always been interested in carrying out experiments to try to understand how things work,” said professor Richard Kaner, who knew from childhood that he wanted to become a scientist.
Faculty leaders considering plan for African-American studies department
The proposal seeks to build on the increasing popularity of the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies by converting it to a full academic department.
UCLA faculty and staff: Enroll your kids in local TIE-INS schools
Are you a UCLA employee interested in sending your child to a great neighborhood school close to campus? Then apply for the 2013-14 school year in UCLA's Together In Education In Neighborhood Schools (TIE-INS) program by the March 1 deadline. All...
Stress Less Week Jan. 27-31
Meditate, practice yoga, laugh, play and change your life during UCLA Recreation’s Stress Less Week. On Meditation Monday, Jan. 27, 12-1 p.m. join a guided meditation at the Pauley Pavilion Club, or movement meditation with Tai Chi at UNEX...
In Memoriam: James Lockhart, scholar in early Latin American history
James Lockhart, a UCLA emeritus professor who was regarded as one of the most original, accomplished scholars in the field of early Latin American history, died Jan. 17 in Bakersfield surrounded by his family.