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Out and About: New Children's Heart Center opens

Children participate in the grand opening of the Children’s Heart Center at Mattel Children’s Hospital on Jan. 23. The center provides world-class medical care in a warm and caring environment for children with known or suspected heart...

Bruins lop their locks for kids in need

The opportunity to contribute to the lives of children, coupled with stylish haircuts provided free of charge, drew a crowd of Bruins and members of the UCLA community today to UCLA’s 7th annual Locks of Love hair donation event.

Using dance to create a movement to end violence against women

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. She is also the faculty director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at the Columbia Law School. She is the co-founder of the African...

Walk and win in 'I Heart Walking'

Walk and win in "I Heart Walking," presented by UCLA Recreation. Starting today and continuing through Thursday, Feb. 13, join fellow Bruins in lunchtime walks to get refreshed and improve your health. Walks begin each day at 12:10 p.m. and 12:15...

Q&A: Olympic gold medalist and UCLA freshman Jordyn Wieber

Jordyn Wieber (second from the left) struck gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, along with her teammates on the U.S. women's gymnastics team. She's now a psychology major at UCLA where she trains privately and serves as manager of the UCLA...

Political strategy or malpractice to immigrant communities?

Victor Narro is the project director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, which provides leadership programs for Los Angeles’ immigrant workers and internship opportunities for UCLA students. He is the co-editor of the book, "Working for...

Staff members break down barriers by learning Spanish

When Mark Speare was asked a year and a half ago whether he thought managers in health sciences might want to take time out of their busy schedules to take a 10-week class at UCLA to learn basic Spanish, the chief human resources officer for...

Q&A: Epidemiologist Alex Ortega likes to rap

The UCLA professor of public health and psychiatry answered a few off-the-cuff questions in the Zocalo green room before a panel discussion on how Angelenos eat.

Policy reforms are needed boost sagging productivity

Edward Prescott (far left), the 2004 Nobel laureate in economics, is a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University. Lee Ohanian is a professor of economics at UCLA,...

Staff News — Feb. 10, 2014

Center for the Art of Performance director Edmunds named 'catalyst in residence' at Pew Center Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, became The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s first...

Out and About: Rwanda -- Building a nation from a nightmare

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda will talk about his nation's recovery from the genocide of 1994, its subsequent economic advances and future challenges at a Fe. 12 dinner cohosted by UCLA's Center for World Health and the Los Angeles World...

Don't stress; live a little

Demanding careers… relationship problems… financial struggles … family strife, not to mention the hour you just spent stuck in traffic — to be sure, life can be stressful. But with evidence continuing to mount that carrying all of that mental...
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