faculty news

Searching online for jobs systemwide at the University of California just got easier, thanks to a revamped jobs website.

Turner Classic Movies is airing a 50th Anniversary Tribute to the UCLA Film and Television Archive on Wednesday, July 15, starting at 5 p.m. (PDT).

Dr. Edward Zaragoza, UCLA clinical director of imaging informatics and chief of acute care imaging, practices aerialist acts of derring-do several nights a week at the Cirque School in West Hollywood.

UCLA researchers Joelle Wolstein and Susan Babey present 'The Environmental Factors Driving Rising Obesity in California' on Wednesday, July 15, noon-1 p.m.

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, a popular annual series of free concerts, opens July 28 at UCLA with the Westside Chamber Players performing.

The chemistry professor engages students in part by showing how the subject is relevant to everyday life, medicine and even pop culture.

Join experts for a panel discussion of the impact of plastic pollution, one of the most significant environmental problems facing our oceans, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14 at the UCLA Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater.

Asad Madni, Distinguished Adjunct Professor in UCLA's department of electrical engineering, has been inducted as an eminent member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of electrical engineers.

Dr. Rajan Kulkarni, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member and clinical instructor in the division of dermatology, has been granted a Young Investigator Award of $75,000 on behalf of the Melanoma Research Alliance.

UCLA’s Dr. Matthew Waxman writes about the two months he spent in Sierra Leone treating people suffering from the deadly Ebola virus.

The UCLA campus has become a place where mind-body programs are being developed to help people deal with stress as well as maintain a healthy lifestyle through the Healthy Campus Initiative.

Diana Bontà, adjunct professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded the Hispanics in Philanthropy Giver Award for her leadership in health funding in California.

Professor Sudipto Banerjee, chair of the department of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a 2015 Distinguished Achievement Medal by the American Statistical Association.

The 2015 Research Conference on Aging, a free event hosted by UCLA GeroNet, will take place 8 a.m. to noon, Thursday, July 9, in UCLA’s Ackerman Grand Ballroom.

Recipients of benefits from the University of California Retirement Plan (UCRP) and UC-PERS Plus 5 Plan are receiving a cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2015, and appearing in checks paid at the end of July.

UCLA Hitch Suites was lauded at the 45th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards presentation. The awards recognize the best design projects in Los Angeles County from the past year.

By day, UCLA biochemist Ivan Lopez explores the molecular pathology of the inner ear; by night and on weekends, he is a black-belted martial arts master.

History professor Josh Sides talks about how L.A. came to embody the best and worst of what urban America has to offer African Americans, on July 8 at UCLA's Hammer Museum.

The Hammer Museum and KCRW-89.9FM celebrate summer with the free concert series 'Summer of Soul' beginning at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 9, in the courtyard of the museum.

Susan Akens has been appointed executive director of UCLA School of Law’s Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Law Program, as of July 1.

Five early-career researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior have been selected to receive 2015 Friends Scholars Awards of $100,000 over two years to support their research.

Doctors are encouraged to see that a growing number of cancer patients are being snatched from the precipice by novel immunotherapy treatments.

Archaeologist Laura Tedesco and Abbas Kamwand of the U.S. Embassy will discuss efforts to save the art and culture of Afghanistan in a Hammer Forum at UCLA's Hammer Museum on Tuesday, June 30.

Beginning this fall, the University of California will provide students with the option to voluntarily self-identify their sexual orientation and gender identity on the undergraduate admission application to help the university better understand and meet the diverse needs of its students.

University of California President Janet Napolitano shared good news about the positive impact that California’s 2015-16 final budget will have on the university, from employee compensation to undergraduate tuition.