faculty news

Spot celebrities at the third annual Athletes vs. Cancer football game, hosted by Matt Barnes and Snoop Dogg, on Sunday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m. at UCLA's Drake Stadium.

Bettina Lee serves as a one-woman classroom, teacher and mentor to patients at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA.

Café Med, at UCLA’s Center for Health Sciences, will reopen on Monday, Aug. 17, with the introduction of a new area serving sushi, El Pollo Loco, sandwiches and the grill.

Bhagwan Chowdhry, professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is serving as the inaugural visiting scholar at Stellar Development Foundation.

Todd Yeates, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the 2016 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Delano Award for Computational Biosciences.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has established the Barbara Boyle Promising Producers Prize.

Héctor Calderón, professor of Spanish American, Mexican, and Chicano literature and cultures, was named chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Brad Shaffer, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the 2015 recipient of the Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology.

Immerse yourself in Afghan culture and cuisine during the UCLA Hammer Museum's 'Conflict Kitchen and Afghan Cuisine,' Wednesday, Aug. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Billy Wilder Theater.

UCLA's Charles Corbett, professor of operations management and sustainability, has been named the IBM Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

The MedDreamers fundraiser on Aug. 16 supports scholarships for undocumented students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

A film of 'Twilight: Los Angeles,' the acclaimed one-woman documentary theatrical piece by Anna Deavere Smith, will be screened by the Hammer Museum on Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.

Elisa Long, an expert in probability and statistics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, wrote a column that appeared in the Washington Post about how statistics helped guide her through life, death and 'The Price is Right.'

President Napolitano has appointed a systemwide task force of UC faculty, staff and administrators to help develop a new set of retirement benefits options for UC to offer future employees hired on or after July 1, 2016.

Dominique Hanssens, Bud Knapp Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, is the recipient of an award for his lifetime contributions to the theory and practice of marketing.

Dr. Timothy Miller, a UCLA emeritus professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, was honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America with an Excellence in the Sciences Award.

Exploring the brave new world of microbiota may one day lead to the development of better ways to manage infections, create new antibiotics and address obesity, heart disease and cancer.

The Science and Entertainment Exchange at UCLA connects scientists with filmmakers to bring scientific accuracy to the big screen.

Takahashi, professor of urban planning and Asian American studies, has been appointed interim leader of the school effective immediately.

The school has risen rapidly since its creation in 2007 with a visionary $30 million gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation.

‘Kids in the Courtyard: Indian Sweets and Games,’ a free event for families, will take place at the UCLA Fowler Museum on Sunday, Aug. 9 from 1-4 p.m.

Film director Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' (1986) and 'Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads' (1983) screen on Aug. 8 as part of a UCLA Film and Television Archive series.

John Hawkins, emeritus professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has published 'Research, Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education.'

Michelle Caswell, assistant professor of information studies, received the Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her book, 'Archiving the the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia.'

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.