faculty news

In a message to the UCLA campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. will be leaving UCLA and praised him for his leadership in advancing UCLA’s civic engagement.

A new University of California video, ‘Preparing for Retirement,’ guides faculty and staff through the process of retirement.

The UCLA Hammer Museum's exhibition of the uniquely inventive work of British designer Thomas Heatherwick closes May 24, 2015.

University of California employees are invited to vote for new representatives on the UC Retirement System (UCRS) Advisory Board May 19-June 17.

Dr. Atilla Uner, a UCLA clinical professor of emergency medicine, served on a U.S. search and rescue team that helped find survivors of the Nepal earthquake.

Join in conversation with the Maricón Collective at UCLA's Chicana/o Studies Research (CSRC) Library archives 3-5 p.m., Thursday, May 21 at 144 Haines Hall.

David Myers, professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair in the UCLA College’s Department of History, has been awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History.

In his recently released book, UCLA English professor Joseph Bristow delves into Oscar Wilde’s obsession with obscure poet Thomas Chatterton, whom many scholars have long assumed Wilde plagiarized.

UCLA School of Law has been ranked No. 1 in The Hollywood Reporter’s listing of the top entertainment law schools.

The 24th annual UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Film Festival, running Friday, June 5 through Wednesday, June 10, will honor Hollywood luminaries during a week of free screenings, panels and awards presentations.

Check out the 37th Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday, May 19 in the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center.

Bring your whole family to celebrate Indian arts and culture at the UCLA Fowler Museum's 'Arts of India Festival,' from 12:30-4 p.m. on Sunday, May 17.

UCLA volunteers can often be found helping out around the city on the weekends in UCLA’s One Bus, One Cause events.

Nearly 300 students in the 7th-9th grades in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with teachers and other adults, have taken ‘Wallace Walks’ through UCLA’s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden this year.

UCLA professor Purnima Mankekar will discuss her new book, 'Unsettling India,' 12-1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 15 in the Young Research Library Presentation Room.

Jayathi Murthy will serve as the next dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, starting in January 2016.

Meet the journalist and cartoonist creators of the graphic novella, 'Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data,' on Tuesday, May 19 at UCLA.

U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation Anthony Foxx speaks at 5 p.m. on May 14 at L.A.'s Union Station for the UCLA Luskin School and L.A. Metro.

UCLA history professor Ivan Berend, who was liberated from Dachau 70 years ago and became a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism, retired last week at the age of 85.

UCLA’s annual bike week is in full swing, offering regular cyclists and the bike-curious three “pit stops” from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Eric Betzig, 2014 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, will speak at UCLA on June 1 about new optical imaging technologies for biology.

Chris Burden, renowned conceptual artist and a professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Art, died of cancer on May 10 at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69.

In his recently published book, Aron reveals how Manifest Destiny influenced the Nazis and talks about how modern scholarship of the West now encompasses the area’s demographic diversity.

Steve Shaevel, director of academic personnel at the UCLA School of Dentistry, and his wife, Gail, have been tapped to serve on an advisory board for a National Institutes of Health Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant.

For UCLA’s spring Faculty Research Lecture, Kristal, the chair of UCLA’s comparative literature department and a professor of Spanish, will share his life-long love of the Argentine author Jorge Louis Borges.