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Professor Megan Franke is one of three UC faculty members elected to the National Academy of Education.

The UCLA Luskin Community Scholars received national recognition in the applied research category from the American Planning Association’s professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, for a 2015-16 study.

UCLA physics professor Joseph Rudnick recalls his father's bold experiment and result that verified a later theory that won three other physicists the 2016 Nobel Prize.

Jessica Peake, director of UCLA School of Law's International and Comparative Law Program, traveled to Kabul in January to serve as a judge at the Afghanistan National Rounds of the Phillip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

UCLA will hold three workshops on campus over the next year to assess and enhance STEM programs for undergraduates.

In early February, South Africa’s University of the Free State, Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands and UCLA held their fourth symposium on diversity and equity in higher education.

Jill Horwitz took a few minutes to answer a few fun, random questions about tacos and her favorite book in Zócalo's green room before participating in the Zócalo/UCLA panel “Can Anything Stop America’s Opioid Addiction?"

There are important differences between the two flexible spending accounts as to what happens to money remaining in your account at the end of the plan year.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

UCLA is tied for eighth in the United States among institutions with the largest number of Sloan Research Fellowships.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs researchers have been selected to join the Research Network on Misdemeanor Justice, based at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, to study policing patterns related to misdemeanors in the city of Los Angeles.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA plans to donate approximately half of the profits from a presentation of "Dirtsong" to UCLA's American Indian Studies Center. The performance takes place Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall.

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World will be the first center in the Western Hemisphere that aims to advance the knowledge of ancient Iranian languages, history and religions.

Three faculty members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have received one of the highest honors that can be given to an American engineer.

If you are selected as part of this reverification process, Secova will request information verifying the current eligibility of your spouse or domestic partner, grandchildren or legal wards.

Judith Smith has been appointed founding dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA’s newest school and the first school of music to be established in the University of California system.

More than 300 health care workers from UCLA Health volunteered their time and expertise at the free Care Harbor health clinic in Los Angeles.

Leading the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is "a mission I can embrace and get behind. ... This was the right fit for me," said the new dean.

Recently, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, a socio-cultural anthropologist in the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, answered a few random questions for the Zócalo Public Square website before appearing on a Zócalo/UCLA panel at the Japanese American Museum.

 New ideas, programs and fresh faces are playing a big role at the UCLA International Institute this academic year.

UCLA School of Law students honed their research, analytic and drafting skills when they worked on an amicus curiae brief on a case that will be argued Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

Anke Audenaert, an assistant adjunct professor of marketing at UCLA’s Anderson School, never planned on working in the tech industry. But after spending more than 15 years working at various tech companies, she has charted a path to success in that field.

A three-year collaborative project between UCLA and the Université François Rabelais of Tours (France)  has been launched, based on a research program, "From Passions to Emotions: Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual (1680-1850)."

To access their W-2 statements, UCLA employees should go directly to At Your Service Online instead of clicking on links or attachments in emails.

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers discuss the parallels — and the sometimes unexpected intersections between the two pursuits.