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In nearly 30 years as a faculty member and administrator at UCLA, Rich led efforts to improve undergraduate education, increased support for teaching and played a key role in restructuring the professional schools and academic programs to enhance academic quality.

UC faculty and staff are benefiting from free wellness coaching available through UC Living Well’s partner, Optum Wellness.

UCLA's assistant vice chancellor for environment, health and safety explains how the university has improved lab safety during the last few years and what UCLA’s next steps are.

Glen MacDonald, formerly the director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is the first holder of a new chair named after legendary conservationist John Muir. Mark Gold is now acting director of IoES.

Emily Scivoletto will join the UCLA School of Law as dean of students on Aug. 14, coming from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Ka-Yuet Liu, assistant professor of sociology at UCLA, was named as a 2014-2015 Hellman Fellow for her research on California vaccine requirements

A group of 47 eminent scientists who met in the laboratories of UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf produced two remarkable books documenting the earliest history of the Earth. Thirty-five of them will reunite at UCLA for a July 22-24 conference.

Back by popular demand after sold-out houses last summer, the Oscar Wilde classic, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” will be performed at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in five performances by the Chalk Repertory Theater, July 25-August 2.

UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

UCLA’s Hammer Museum and KCRW are teaming up to present Made in L.A. Music, four nights of free, live, Los Angeles-based music in the museum courtyard over four weeks.

The UCLA Library system has established new unified loan periods to make it easier for UCLA and UC faculty, staff and students to manage items checked out from the Library’s circulating collections.

This weekend marks the launch at UCLA's Billy Hammer Theater of “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary,” a month-long pageant of weekend showings of Brazilian film.

Water researchers from UCLA, the Natural History Museum and elsewhere are helping the region understand issues, history and possible solutions related to the drought. A discussion series featuring panels of experts begins July 10.

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, an annual event presented by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, features four free concerts this year.

On Thursday, July 10 at the UCLA Hammer Museum, The Do-Over and Innovative Leisure present De Lux, The Do-Over mystery guest DJs and KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer.

Kligman is a renowned expert on Jewish music, from sacred liturgical traditions to contemporary popular music. He joined the UCLA faculty July 1.

UCLA Fowler Museum's KidsMUSE summer camp, 'Dig It,' invites children to explore nature, ecology, art and conservation.

The mood on campus changes over the summer. It's hard to put it into words, so let's try it with photos.

The University of California wants to know what you think about your university-sponsored medical plan. UC Human Resources has launched its annual medical plan satisfaction survey and invites feedback from all faculty, staff and retirees enrolled in a ...

The campus is one of six U.S. institutions chosen by the NIH to join the agency's efforts to tackle the most difficult-to-solve medical cases and develop ways to diagnose rare genetic disorders.

Three films by photographic and video artist Judy Fiskin will screen at the Billy Wilder Theater on Tuesday, July 1, 7:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Aydogan Ozcan and Tracy Johnson have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors in recognition of their breakthrough research and innovative approaches to undergraduate education.

Michael Intriligator, a professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA who played an influential role in the establishment of the School of Public Affairs, died on June 23 after a three-year battle with melanoma. 

Brian Taylor, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies as well as a professor of urban planning, talks about getting stuck in traffic and the day he received three parking tickets in Zocalo's green room.

Guided mindfulness meditations by Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, are now available for television viewing by patients, visitors and staff at UCLA hospitals and medical clinics in Westwood.