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UCLA Staff Assembly's 2015-16 Executive Board members, elected by staff members in a campuswide vote, took office on office on July 1, 2015.

UCLA Hitch Suites was lauded at the 45th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards presentation. The awards recognize the best design projects in Los Angeles County from the past year.

UCLA computer resource specialist Michael Fehr and Naomi Nakamura of UC San Francisco have been elected staff representatives to the University of California Retirement System Advisory Board.

Shaina Zaidi, a former UCLA Women’s Basketball student-athlete, has been named director of the Bruin Varsity Club by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA will present “Singular Spaces," an exhibition on view from April 12 until Sept. 6 that features photographs of Spanish art environments made by self-taught artists across the Iberian Peninsula.

Zocalo and UCLA will host a discussion about the policies, services and street strategies that will help homeless people stay off the streets, 7:30 -9:30 p.m., Monday, June 29, at the Plaza on Olvera Street.

A gathering of the UCLA campus community will be held at noon Thursday, June 25, to honor the nine lives lost in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh has invited members of the campus community to volunteer at the Special Olympics World Games, on campus July 25-Aug. 1.

Clinton Bench has been named the new director of UCLA Fleet and Transit. He previously served as manager of Transit Service Planning for the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Pick up your free ticket by July 31 for this summer's All-Staff Picnic, taking place 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 11, on Dickson Plaza.

Save 30-60 percent on selected merchandise during the Fowler Museum Store’s Summer Sale, June 10-21.

LaWana Richmond, a business analyst and postal center manager at UC San Diego, has been named staff advisor-designate to the UC Board of Regents for 2015-2017.

UCLA staff members Margaret Govea and Octavio Olvera will receive the 2015 Chancellor's Excellence in Service Award.

UCLA’s annual United Way campaign, which helps provide housing, education and jobs for the less fortunate, runs May 26-June 5.

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

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.

UCLA’s Weyburn Terrace, a residential community for 1,800 graduate students, has been recognized by the Congress for the New Urbanism as one of the year’s most outstanding examples of architectural, landscape, urban and regional design.

UCLA has been recognized in three categories of the 2015 Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards Competition from the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.

An exhibit of photos by Tony Coelho, on staff at UCLA's Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars, captures historic West Hollywood.

UCLA faculty, staff and students are invited to enter the second annual ‘Code for the Mission’ competition to develop mobile applications promoting UCLA’s mission of education, research and service.

Patricia Kerrigan, a cognitive intervention specialist at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, will receive the Nan Songer Distinguished Member Award from APHOES, a professional organization in her field.

Ragini Gill has been appointed new director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, as of May 4. Gill has been serving UCLA Health since 2006 as a retirement and benefits counselor as well as program manager for staff health and wellness. 

Hear from UCLA sleep experts, take a nap, practice mindful meditation and more during the UCLA Sleep Well Campaign, Monday-Friday, April 6-10.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative is accepting nominations for the inaugural Jane Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Staff Appreciation and Recognition Award.

The UCLA Latin American Institute is presenting a lecture on chocolate and other community outreach activities to share the latest research findings on the Latin American region with L.A. residents.