faculty news

Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek of UCLA's Department of Electrical Engineering has received funding from NASA to study new coding and signal processing mechanisms to help overcome unreliability in memories used in deep space applications.

Greg Carman, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Marvel Comics luminaries Stan Lee and Roy Thomas will join director Kevin Smith on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., at the Hammer Museum for a discussion of the venerable publisher’s long history.

The acclaimed documentary 'Hoop Dreams' (1994) screens on Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater, with an appearance by director Steve James.

Lillie Hsu and Dion Raymond have long-standing “heart-centered connections” to UCLA. The newly-created position of Discrimination Prevention Officer is a key component to remedying bias, improving campus climate and strengthening UCLA’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.

Jayanti Tambe has been named executive director, UCLA Early Care and Education, effective Feb. 1, 2015.

Candice Levy, a UCLA lecturer in Jewish Studies, will discuss ‘Unjust Suffering and the Afterlife’ for the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 4-5:30 p.m.

A team of volunteers from the UCLA School of Dentistry spent a busy Saturday, Nov. 22, providing free dental treatment to nearly 100 adults and children during the second annual Treatment Day at the school's Westwood clinics.

Each have been honored for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

UCLA Health Auxiliary's Adopt-A-Family Program helps brighten the holidays of patients at UCLA’s medical centers and their families facing severe illness and extraordinary financial challenges.

From poultry to pies and sugar to soil, UC scientists are uncovering insights across the food spectrum that can make your holidays healthier, happier and more mindful.

Dr. Jeremy M. Blumberg, an assistant professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and surgical director of renal transplantation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, reminisces about a past Thanksgiving when he was asked to recover the organs of an infant who had drowned.

Rita Effros was installed as president of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. Efrros is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

UCLA Law professor Gerald P. López has received the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his commitment to public stewardship.

UC’s annual Open Enrollment, an opportunity for faculty and staff to make changes to their 2015 medical plan and other benefits, ends on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

A team of UCLA researchers have been awarded 83 million core hours of computing time on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to study the origins and evolution of the Earth’s magnetic field.

'Sounds of the Season' will be presented by the UCLA choral program on Saturday, Dec. 13, 8 p.m., at Schoenberg Hall.

UCLA is marking the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 20 by introducing a new technology tool to help smokers seen in the UCLA Health System quit for good.

Cardiologist Leigh Reardon’s experiences as a child open-heart surgery patient taught him an empathy that creates a uniquely open relationship with his patients.

UCLA faculty and staff are invited to an information session on Dec. 1 to learn about cloud computing services newly available through Information Technology Services.

If 2,200 Bruins donated to any of UCLA’s funds prior to the UCLA-USC football game Nov. 22, alumni Karren Ganstwig and Howard Welinsky pledged to give an additional $100,000 to UCLA.

UCLA is one of 20 colleges and universities, and the only postsecondary institution in California, participating in the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Healthier Campus Initiative.

The Center for Middle East Development will honor Leonard Binder, a scholar of Middle Eastern politics.

This year, UCLA's annual food drive is also part of a competition to donate more than the university's cross-town rival.

Michael Eselun, certified interfaith chaplain for the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, explores "It could be worse," a common coping strategy for dealing with cancer.