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Two priorities for the fiscal year 2017 competition were north campus-led research projects and projects involving big data and related tools and capabilities.

The UCLA Staff and Faculty Counseling Center is offering a three-week educational support group on change. They will be providing information, tools, and support on how to manage change and build resilience. 

The gift, from Michael Jung, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and his wife, Alice, establishes an endowed chair in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery.

Two UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs scholars are being recognized for seeking to frame diverse theoretical approaches to the study of urbanization as a common language or foundational concept.

California Gov. Jerry Brown recently appointed four people to the UC Board of Regents.

Winners of the Staff Assembly Staff Scholarships will also be honored.

A briefing was held by UCLA Government and Community Relations because of increased interest shown by the campus community in responding to the proposed budget by the Trump administration.

UCLA School of Law is launching new initiatives to promote cutting-edge research in food law and animal law and to build bridges between the two fields.

Daniel Blumstein, a professor in the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the recipient of the 2017 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, presented annually by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA.

Jim Freedman’s donation will support programmatic and strategic operating efforts in the Anderson Venture Accelerator and provide students the tools they need to incubate game-changing organizations.

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is launching today the Bill Klug Memorial Scholarship Fund to support undergraduate students in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

All of the winners will be honored during the annual Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching ceremony in the fall, an event co-hosted by the Academic Senate and the UCLA Office of Instructional Development.

Delegates from China’s Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing visited the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health on Tuesday, May 30, to sign an official memorandum of understanding with the school.

Lynn Vavreck is a professor of political science at UCLA and co-author of “The Gamble,” about the 2012 presidential campaign. She is a regular contributor to the Upshot blog on The New York Times website.

Share was once a media insider, a freelance photojournalist who covered such issues as poverty and social activism.

Haroon Azar, a 2008 graduate of the UCLA School of Law, will lead the program as director and a senior fellow at the Burkle Center.

Math often gets a bad rap as an uncreative left brain-oriented activity, but Andrea Bertozzi recalls that, as a child, she was fascinated by math's creative potential.

While UC is researching whether fraud has afftected UC’s plans for faculty, staff and retirees, UC’s self-insured PPO plans are taking two immediate precautionary measures.

In this Q&A about her new book, UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández highlights how decades of discriminatory policies gave rise to this dubious distinction.

Q&A with UCLA professor Sarah Roberts, who has pioneered the study of the toll screening objectionable online content takes on the people who have to do it.

Share your technical or innovation skills in the fourth annual UCLA Code for the Mission App Competition mobile app competition.

Most recently, he served as assistant director for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences, where he led a division with an annual budget of approximately $1.3 billion in support of core research.

The academy's members have included Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell.

Dr. Kelsey Martin, who recently was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, is the first woman dean of UCLA’s medical school, and she is among only a handful of women leading a medical school in the United States.

UCLA faculty members Judith Carney and Stephanie Jamison will be inducted in an October ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.