The University of California proposes to renew the Employee-initiated Reduction In Time (ERIT) Program for a three-year period. Employee comments are invited by May 30.
Peter Taylor, former UC chief financial officer, will present 'UC’s Financial Challenges and the Systemwide Response' as part of UCLA’s Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center’s series of 45th Anniversary Celebration lectures.
A guest house designed by Steven Christensen, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, was selected by the American Institute of Architects for its Emerging Professionals Exhibition in Washington, D.C.
In the late '70s, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett proved it's never too late to pursue one's dreams, leaving a successful career in the corporate world to study archaeology at UCLA. Now she's giving back.
A unique partnership between UCLA and the LAUSD, the pilot school, which serves a largely low-income immigrant community, has made impressive strides in engendering educational success and promoting a college-going culture.
Michael Lens, assistant professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has received awards from both the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate for his research in housing policy.
Patricia Gándara, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, has been selected as the 2014 Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University’s School of Education.
Sandra Harding, UCLA professor of education and gender studies, has been honored with the 2013 John Desmond Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science.
Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton will be at UCLA on Thursday, May 22 as part of the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies' 'Images in Blackness' film series.
The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA has announced its 2014–15 program, featuring complex and collaborative work from renowned contemporary artists in music, theater, dance and spoken word.
Penelope (Penny) Hein-Unruh, UCLA associate vice chancellor for academic advising in the College of Letters and Science, died May 8 in her home in Los Angeles.
UCLA professor of architecture and urban design Sylvia Lavin's 'Everything Loose Will Land' explores the dynamic intersection of architecture and the visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s. The exhibit is at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.
Professor Peter Sellars of UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance has won the 2014 Polar Music Prize, has been named 2014-15 director-in-residence of the English National Opera and will be honored by the New York Park Avenue Armory this fall.
Two new gifts will fund research in stem cell science and digestive diseases and support faculty recruitment at two of UCLA's renowned research centers.
President Obama met for a few minutes at LAX with students in a UCLA seminar taught by actor and former White House aide Kal Penn. The class: "Hope, Change, and Fist Bumps: Young Americans and The Obama Presidency."
UCLA information studies professor Michelle Caswell’s new book examines the ethical questions of archiving and displaying documentation of human rights violations and atrocities.
A rolling water treatment plant designed by UCLA researchers made a pit stop on campus this week before heading north to the San Joaquin Valley, where it will help address California’s inadequate water supply.