faculty news

The California NanoSystems Institute is hosting a core lab open house on Tuesday, Oct. 2114. Join in for an afternoon of compelling science and a fun opportunity to learn about the world-class laboratories.

Test drive an electric vehicle at UCLA on Tuesday, Sept. 6, noon-4 p.m. during the Drive an Electric Vehicle event.

Shred sensitive documents like financial statements and wipe out digital data from your old data storage devices for free on Saturday, Sept. 13, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at the main branch of UCLA's University Credit Union.

Dr. George Bartzokis, a UCLA neuroscientist who originated the theory that the degeneration of the brain’s myelin contributed to many developmental and degenerative diseases, died on August 22.

UCLA Anderson Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry is making the latest studies in the fields of finance and accounting more accessible and easier for the general public to understand, and he hopes that may start a trend.

Learn how to safeguard the health of your family at Liver Diseases: Update 2014, a free educational seminar presented by UCLA's Pfleger Liver Institute, Prominent and respected specialists will offer patients, families and members of the community ...

Next month, Professor Stephen Hubbell will become the first American in 40 years to receive a Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations.

Dr. Denis Evseenko’s bold vision of translational science is already blazing new trails in research of regenerative stem cells and their relationship to cancer at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Broad Center for Stem Cell Research at UCLA.

Chair will support an engineering professor who is an accomplished researcher, teacher and mentor to future engineering leaders.

Robert Sbordone, an authority in clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain damage and post-traumatic stress disorder and a former researcher at UCLA’s NeuroPsychiatric Institute, passed away on Aug. 3 in Mission Viejo, California.

Enlist your organizational and interpersonal skills, creativity and flexibility to serve as a project leader or task captain for the sixth annual UCLA Volunteer Day on Monday, Sept. 29.

Download the free new UCLA Bruins Gameday app for everything you need to navigate UCLA football plus well men’s and women’s basketball on game day.  From UCLA Athletics, the app also features:

UCLA, USC, Caltech are collaborating in creating a National Science Foundation-funded center to translate scientific and engineering research into technology for the marketplace.

A project that began as a release from demanding careers has become a successful band, Help the Doctor, complete with a fan base, a sold-out performance at the House of Blues and gigs for charity.

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an ultra-compact X-ray free electron laser.

Dr. Joseph K. Perloff, the founding director of the Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, died Aug. 18 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., of complications from coronary artery disease. He was 89.

Susan Dietz, five-time Tony nominee and producer of such Broadway hits as “Fela!,” “The Little Dog Laughed” and “Mothers and Sons,” will be coming to UCLA in February to teach an immersive five-week course on the fundamentals of producing on- and off-Broadway shows.

Geoffrey Mess, a professor of mathematics who made important contributions to topology and geometric group theory, has died after an extended illness. He was 54.

Sociology professor Judith A. Seltzer has been elected president of the Population Association of America for 2015. She will serve as president-elect in 2015 and as president in 2016.

UCLA Fowler Museum is hosting 'Mask Making' as part of its Kids in the Courtyard series on Sunday, August 17 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

"GHOST SHIFT," an exhibition featuring work by UCLA Department of Art staff members Chris Bassett, Ed Beller, Deanna Erdmann, Ben Evans, Whitney Hubbs, Jared Pankin and Steven Simon, opens at the New Wight Gallery.

Stanley Osher, UCLA professor of mathematics and director of applied mathematics, is the third person ever to receive the prestigious Gauss Prize, the highest honor in applied mathematics.

George Hilton, a UCLA professor of transportation economics, died Aug. 4 of heart failure at Lorien Health Park in Columbia, Maryland.

UCLA’s Hammer Museum presents the latest “Flux” screening of short films, music videos, filmmaker retrospectives and visual artwork from around the world, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Admission is free.

Terence Tao will be honored December 1 for his “many deep and varied contributions to mathematics.”