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Anthem, Inc. disclosed on Feb. 4 that it was the target of a very sophisticated cyber attack that potentially compromised information about UC students, retirees, employees and their dependents.

Jillian Neuner raised $1,750 for UCLA research in honor of a friend battling Ewing's Sarcoma, one of the rarest forms of pediatric cancer.

UCLA is making available free software to the campus community that downloads in seconds and increases the chance that campus police or other local law enforcement agencies will be able to reunite owners with stolen electronic devices.

Linda McDermott, night shift lead nurse in labor and delivery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, has spent nearly three decades assisting couples when their 'big day' occurs at night.

'Fragments of Extinction: An Environmental Sound-Art Project on the Acoustic Biodiversity of Rainforests' will be presented on Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m. at the California NanoSystems Institute.

Benjamin Nathan will join UCLA Health Sciences as the chief information officer for the David Geffen School of Medicine, effective on May 4.  Nathan will provide the vision and leadership for the administration, research and educational information systems of the medical school.

UCLA Recreation presents its annual "I Heart Walking" Feb. 9 - 12. Walk campus routes with your fellow Bruins and get a free T-shirt. 

As a part of its series on the films of DeMille, the UCLA Film and Television Archive screens “Union Pacific” Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Join fellow Bruins, family and friends on Sunday, March 8, for the 2nd Annual UCLA True Bruin Move and Groove 5K.

Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba of the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies will discuss her new book on Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m. in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 144 Haines Hall.

Advance tickets are just $2 for UCLA Women’s Basketball's 9th Annual Play 4 Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game versus Arizona State on Friday, Feb 20, 7 p.m., at Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA Musicology will open the floodgates of Bruin faculty and student musical talent Thursday, Jan. 29 with “UCLA Sings!” The free concert launches a two-day conference.

The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the UC regents is now open. Staff members will have until March 6 to submit an application. The new staff advisor will serve on the Board of Regents from July 2015 through June 2017.

UCLA employees interested in the convenience of sending their children to a school that’s close to campus should sign up.

Yoram Cohen, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named interim director of the Y and S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in the UCLA International Institute.

Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black, UCLA professors of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, have been awarded a three-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on the immune system’s response to pathogens.

Wesley Thorne has joined UCLA as director of the UCLA Career Center, one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive centers of its kind.

Heather Adams, who transferred to UCLA from Santa Monica College in 2012, is now a staffer who helps transfer students find the support they need to succeed at UCLA.

Author and investigative journalist James Bramford, best known for his writing about the National Security Agency (NSA), will give two talks at UCLA as part of Data Privacy Month.

Let go of stress and enhance your physical and psychological well-being with Bruin MindFit, a new course offered free of cost and exclusively for faculty and staff by UCLA Recreation.

In just a few minutes, you can make sure your benefits are in order and that you're ready to take advantage of some of the great benefits and tools UC offers.

A 2014 retrospective on the world leaders, scholars, journalists and artists and numerous other notables who spoke at UCLA’s International Institute.

UCLA Library's new executive director of development, Stephanie Kimura, working with University Librarian Virginia Steel, will help spearhead the library’s fundraising endeavors while enhancing its contributions to UCLA's Centennial Campaign.

'Rocks in my Pockets,' the new animated film by Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane, at a free screening on Monday, Jan. 12, 7 p.m. at Melnitz Hall.

UCLA Fowler Museum guest curator David Herlihy will describe the lives and adventures of 19th Century bicycle pioneers William L. Sachtleben and Thomas G. Allen Jr. on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 3 p.m.