Faculty + Staff

Every year as Californians file their state income taxes, they have an opportunity to help University of California researchers and others in the fight against cancer.

As part of Desert X, a contemporary art exhibition in Palm Springs, UCLA art professor Jennifer Bolande provides a cinematic experience for passersby animated by driving along the Gene Autry Trail.

The UCLA Luskin Community Scholars received national recognition in the applied research category from the American Planning Association’s professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, for a 2015-16 study.

UCLA professor and vice chair of the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences Alex Hall will be honored as an innovator in climate change research by Climate Resolve, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit.

The biannual Faculty Research Lecture presents the work of UCLA's most distinguished scholars to give the campus and the greater community an opportunity to gain a new perspective on their scholarly achievements.

UCLA Campus Architect Jeffrey B. Averill, 61, who oversaw the design of every major campus building for 15 years and shepherded UCLA’s transformation into an environmentally friendly institution, died Feb. 27.

UCLA physics professor Joseph Rudnick recalls his father's bold experiment and result that verified a later theory that won three other physicists the 2016 Nobel Prize.

Staff across the UC system with an interest in public policy, advocacy and the future direction of the university are encouraged to apply.

Jessica Peake, director of UCLA School of Law's International and Comparative Law Program, traveled to Kabul in January to serve as a judge at the Afghanistan National Rounds of the Phillip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

UCLA professor of radiological sciences Michael McNitt-Gray has agreed to serve as the new assistant vice chancellor for radiation safety.

UCLA’s extensive water-saving program garnered the Water Efficiency Project of the Year award, presented by the environmentally focused organization the Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge at its third annual Innovation Awards ceremony.

UCLA will hold three workshops on campus over the next year to assess and enhance STEM programs for undergraduates.

In early February, South Africa’s University of the Free State, Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands and UCLA held their fourth symposium on diversity and equity in higher education.

The event is a tribute to Dr. David Coffey, a psychiatrist and UCLA faculty member who died in 2012. He was a movie aficionado, and the annual screening is held in his honor.

UCLA Professor of Education Tyrone Howard has been selected as one of 14 2017 AERA Fellows by the American Educational Research Association.

Assistant adjunct professor of ethnomusicology and renowned tabla player Abhiman Kaushal was featured on White Sun’s Grammy award winning album “White Sun II.”

The Marian Group formulates theoretical models of how materials will behavior under conditions that are nearly impossible to physically replicate, such as ultrafast heating, high-dose irradiation or very fast deformation rates.

Jill Horwitz took a few minutes to answer a few fun, random questions about tacos and her favorite book in Zócalo's green room before participating in the Zócalo/UCLA panel “Can Anything Stop America’s Opioid Addiction?"

On the eve of the Academy Awards, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, chair and founding director of the Copley Center, welcomes a stellar group of international costume designers, including three 2017 Oscar nominees, to campus to discuss their craft.

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance presents a night of storytelling in Royce Hall at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 21.

UCLA’s Fowler Museum will celebrate the opening of “African-Print Fashion Now!” from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Fowler’s Lenart Auditorium on Saturday, March 25.

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a distinguished professor of law at both the UCLA School of Law and Columbia University Law School.

Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, UCLA adjunct professor of music and a member of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Board of Trustees, is one of this year’s recipients of Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, considered by many to be the "Nobel Prize" of music.

UCLA professor emeritus Christopher Ehret has been working as a primary adviser on the PBS series, "The Great Civilizations of Africa," produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 

When LaWana Richmond was selected as Staff Advisor to the Regents in 2015, she knew from her predecessors that it would be a learning experience. But it was not until she stepped into the role that she fully grasped the magnitude.