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UCLA Campus Human Resources is recruiting participants for the 2015 Staff Enrichment Program, a highly successful program designed to foster career development and provide skill-building opportunities for staff in administrative support positions.

Teresa Roth, coordinator of the medicine residency program for the past 31 years in UCLA's Department of Medicine, is the winner of the 2014 Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Award.

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.

Former state legislator Sheila Kuehl and former Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver will participate in a Sept. 16 candidates forum hosted by UCLA in partnership with the Los Angeles Business Council and the Century City Chamber of Commerce.

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:

"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.

Sherell Vance has joined the UCLA softball staff as director of operations, and Hayden Maurice has joined as volunteer assistant coach, announced coach Kelly Inouye-Perez.

MyUCLA — the campus portal that enables students to register for classes, check their grades, track financial aid, plan their social calendars and more — is a Golden Award winner in the University of California’s 2014 Larry L. Sautter Awards.

Mats Gunnar Granlund, a staff member in UCLA’s Graduate Division, died unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 3 while engaging in one of his favorite activities — playing squash at UCLA’s John Wooden Center. He was 61.

Filipina American poet Irene Suico Soriano, program coordinator of the Friends of English in UCLA's Department of English, is a featured participant this summer in Voices of LA: The Krupnick Festival of the Arts. Her next reading is Aug. 17.

The award recognizes Facilities Management's efforts to embed sustainable practices throughout the campus.

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

Free tickets for UCLA's All-Staff Picnic are available for pickup through Aug. 4.

Help make this year's UCLA All-Staff Picnic fun for your fellow Bruins — and add to your own enjoyment while you're at it — by serving a quick shift as a volunteer.

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.

Clarissa Byrd brings comfort and understanding to children who are experiencing stress or trauma in the hospital’s emergency department.

Jackie Reynolds, chief information officer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, has received the 2014 Excellence in Leadership (EXCEL) Award.

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 ...

Amjad Ezzour, a student affairs officer in the Fully Employed MBA Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Abraham Ackerman Staff Excellence Award.

Heather Briston has been appointed university archivist in the UCLA Library. UCLA’s University Archives has systematically documented campus history, decision-making processes and cultural history since 1948.

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.

A new full-service optometry clinic opens at UCLA's Ackerman Student Union on Tuesday, July 1.

The University of California has become the first major higher education institution in the country to clearly define digital privacy both for individuals and the university as a whole, and to establish guiding principles and a framework to address these issues.