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Patricia Kerrigan, a cognitive intervention specialist at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, will receive the Nan Songer Distinguished Member Award from APHOES, a professional organization in her field.

When Karen Griffiths lost her 2-year-old son to leukemia in 1980, it opened her eyes to the compassionate role of pediatric nurses — a role she fills today at UCLA.

UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl lectures on 'ISIS and the Enslavement and Trafficking of Women' on Thursday, April 9, 6-8 p.m. at UCLA Law.

Powerhouse vocalist Vickilyn Reynolds belts out crowd-pleasing jazz, blues and gospel numbers in her one-woman musical, “Hattie...What I Need You to Know,” at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, 8 p.m., April 11 and Sunday, 2 p.m., April 12.

Ragini Gill has been appointed new director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, as of May 4. Gill has been serving UCLA Health since 2006 as a retirement and benefits counselor as well as program manager for staff health and wellness. 

Kathleen Salvaty, an experienced litigator and civil rights advocate, has been hired as UCLA’s Title IX officer.

Hear from UCLA sleep experts, take a nap, practice mindful meditation and more during the UCLA Sleep Well Campaign, Monday-Friday, April 6-10.

Triathlete Greg Parks and actor Larry Miller recently appeared at the Reagan UCLA Medical Center to share the experience of recovering from a major brain injury.

Activist and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom screens 'The Mask You Live In' at 7 p.m., April 16, at UCLA's Kaufman Hall.

Kelli Ham, consumer health and technology coordinator, at UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, is the recipient of the 2015 Librarian of the Year Award presented by LAUC-LA, the UCLA division of the Librarians of the University of California.

If you’re wondering whether you’ll have the money you need when you’re ready to retire, UC’s Retirement Review, featuring your personalized retirement readiness score, is just the tool to help you.

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April with a series of free events presented by UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

On the UCLA campus, a conference, a film series and a new opera commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

UCLA Recreation's Bruin MoveMail sends out twice-a-day emails to get deskbound faculty and staff out of their office chairs and into better health.

UC is launching a staff engagement survey on March 30 to learn more about what its non-represented (policy-covered) staff thinks about working at the university.

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh, a leading authority on the American Civil War and the legacy of Ulysses S. Grant, will give a free lecture on April 9, the 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative is accepting nominations for the inaugural Jane Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Staff Appreciation and Recognition Award.

Whether you’ve been a victim of identity theft or not, it’s good to know that, if you’re enrolled in ARAG, the UC-sponsored legal plan, you have identity theft services available to you.

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library will be closed to the public starting April 1, to complete a seismic retrofit of the building as well as some interior renovations. 

An update of BruinCard software will take place during UCLA's Spring Break, when there will be a rolling blackout from March 19-23, during which BruinCard users will not be able to use the card for deposits or financial transactions.

Join the UCLA Film and Television Archive's senior newsreel preservationist Blaine Bartell for a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and more through Hearst newsreels and footage of the era.

University of California employee contributions to the UC Retirement Plan will not increase for 2015, UC leadership recently announced.

Luz Herrera, assistant dean for clinical education, experiential learning and public service at UCLA School of Law, has been selected to receive the Hispanic National Bar Foundation’s Academic Leadership Award.

Jason Torres-Rangel, chair of the English department at UCLA Community School, has been named an Inspirational Teacher of 2015 by United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

Visit the UCLA Hammer Museum on Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. for 'How to Change the World,' a discussion of how participatory art projects cause cultural shifts.