faculty news

UCLA faculty and staff are invited to an info session on the Anderson School's Fully Employed Masters of Business Administration (FEMBA) program on May 29.

University of California faculty, staff and their family members can receive a 33 percent discount on 10 UC Online Education summer session courses.

Amy Rowat, an assistant professor in UCLA's Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, believes food can be a powerful way to communicate science to a broad audience.

Roll with your fellow Bruins on a bike train to campus from Culver City or Koreatown on Thursday, May 15, part of UCLA Bike Week sponsored by UCLA Transportation.

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

An exhibition of the work of MFA students in UCLA Media Arts opens on May 15 and runs through May 29 at the New Wight Gallery.

Peter Taylor, former UC chief financial officer, will present 'UC’s Financial Challenges and the Systemwide Response' as part of UCLA’s Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center’s series of 45th Anniversary Celebration lectures.

Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton will be at UCLA on Thursday, May 22 as part of the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies' 'Images in Blackness' film series.

Join Kristy Edmunds, artistic and executive director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA for Arts Exchange on Monday, May 12, 5 p.m. in the Royce Hall West Lobby for conversation about collaborations between the center and campus colleagues.

UC Walks comes to UCLA on May 21 from 12-1 p.m. on Wilson Plaza.

The UCLA Hammer Museum hosts a discussion with novelist and UCLA professor Mona Simpson and screenwriter/director David O. Russell, May 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Make gifts for mom at 'Kids in the Courtyard: A Mother's Day of Earthly Delights' on Sunday, May 11, from 1 to 4 p.m. in UCLA's Fowler Museum courtyard.

UCLA professor emeritus Howard Suber has played a pivotal role in the creation of key programs in UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, including the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Producer's Program, which has helped launched many a Hollywood career.

Candidates for the State Senate's 26th district, which represents UCLA, will take part in a forum on May 16 at 6 p.m. at Korn Convocation Hall.

"Lyrics From Lockdown: One Man. One Mic. 40 Characters" by acclaimed actor, author and hip-hop artist Bryonn Bain premieres at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall on Tuesday, May 6, 8 p.m.

Dr. James D. Cherry, a UCLA scientist who researches pediatric infectious diseases, is also an avid outdoorsman who, at age 83, routinely shuns groomed runs to ski remote backcountry slopes.

Judea Pearl, a UCLA faculty member since 1969, was honored for his 'distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

K.A.M.P. will connect kids and artists at the Hammer museum on May 18.

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected the 2014 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award. They join a very select group of UCLA’s finest teachers.

"Issei: The First Generation," a film documenting the struggles and triumphs of first-generation Japanese Americans, will be screened on May 8 from 4-6 p.m. in UCLA's Broad Art Center.

Two UCLA emeriti professors, pediatric surgeon Dr. Eric Fonkalsrud and Howard Suber of the School of Theater, Film and Television, have been selected to receive the 2014 Dickson Award, one of the highest awards given to emeriti faculty at UCLA.

The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology offers a rare look at its labs, archives and excavations during an open house on Saturday, May 10 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Drummer John Densmore, a founding member of “The Doors,” will discuss his new book, 'The Doors Unhinged,' at UCLA on May 15 in a Bunche Center Authors' Series Lecture.

David Lloyd Johnston, Canada's governor general, will speak at UCLA about how the United States and Canada can promote innovation across disciplines and across borders.　

UCLA's 36th Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibition takes place on on May 20, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center.