faculty news

A new SUBWAY restaurant is open for business 24/7 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Pedro Noguera, currently the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Rebeca Méndez, a professor in UCLA’s Department of Design|Media Arts, is a member of a design team selected to design the Tucson January 8 Memorial and the El Presidio Park master plan. 

Neil Garg, professor and vice chair for education in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has won the 2015 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, sponsored by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA.

Aisha Finch, UCLA assistant professor of gender studies and African American studies, has published the new book, 'Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844.'

Jennifer Mnookin has served as vice dean for faculty and research and as vice dean for external appointments and intellectual life, and she is founding faculty director of the school’s Program on Understanding, Science and Evidence.

Dr. Richard Shemin, chief of cardiac surgery at UCLA, always knew that William Shemin — his cousin twice removed — “was a phenomenal war hero,” although the former World War I sergeant was never given the Medal of Honor. On Tuesday, President Obama changed that.

UCLA’s 2015-16 Distinguished Teaching Awards to non-Academic Senate faculty, teaching assistants have been announced.

In “Project Fatherhood,” social welfare professor Jorja Leap writes about the struggles and triumphs of men doing their best to become good fathers and mentors in Watts.

An exhibition of works by painter Joseph Holtzman opens on June 6 at UCLA's Hammer Museum.

Attend an opening reception for 'Please Help,' the end-of-year exhibition of works by senior students from the UCLA Department of Art, 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, June 4 at the New Wight Gallery of the Broad Art Center.

Neo Muyunga’s opera, 'The Struggle,' serves as a departure point for a panel discussion at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 2 at the Hammer Museum.

A collection of social media pictures posted by urban planners and acolytes of retiring urban planning professor Donald Shoup posing with a life-size cardboard cutout of the man who wrote the book on parking.

Richard Creese has spent 31 years teaching UCLA students to write. Now the author of eight unpublished novels is the embodiment of the lesson that persistence pays off.

UCLA’s Community Partners in Care has won an international award that highlights the power and potential of community-campus partnerships as a strategy for health equity and social justice.

UCLA professor Dennis Hong, one of the world’s leading designers of humanoid robots, served as host of the May 21 premiere of 'Robot Revolution,' an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

As of July 1, several centers and programs at the UCLA International Institute will have new directors and associate directors, and the Institute itself will have a new associate vice provost.

The new vice chancellor, dean and CEO spoke about his new roles and how he wants to make UCLA’s medical enterprise a John Wooden-like dynasty of excellence in health science.

The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, is a participant in ‘What It Means to Be American,’ a national conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents two 1955 television classics, 'Time for Love' and 'Our Town,' at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 29 in the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

Take a behind-the-scenes peek into the art studios of nearly three dozen graduate students from the UCLA Department of Art this Saturday, May 30.

Professor Carol Bakhos, director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, discusses 'Divine Election: Exploring the Function and the Quandary of Elective Monotheism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam' on May 28.

UCLA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on May 27 to enable collaboration in the planetary sciences between the two institutions that will promote the stature, visibility and excellence of the field.

UCLA’s annual United Way campaign, which helps provide housing, education and jobs for the less fortunate, runs May 26-June 5.

Carol Kruse, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in immunological therapy for brain cancer, passed away on March 28 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 61.