Faculty + Staff

David Myers, professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair in the UCLA College’s Department of History, has been awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History.

In his recently released book, UCLA English professor Joseph Bristow delves into Oscar Wilde’s obsession with obscure poet Thomas Chatterton, whom many scholars have long assumed Wilde plagiarized.

UCLA School of Law has been ranked No. 1 in The Hollywood Reporter’s listing of the top entertainment law schools.

Four UCLA brain researchers have been selected for two of six awards recently announced by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to support work at the frontier of one of the most challenging roadblocks in neuroscience: growing mature human brain cells in the laboratory.

The 24th annual UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Film Festival, running Friday, June 5 through Wednesday, June 10, will honor Hollywood luminaries during a week of free screenings, panels and awards presentations.

Check out the 37th Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday, May 19 in the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center.

Bring your whole family to celebrate Indian arts and culture at the UCLA Fowler Museum's 'Arts of India Festival,' from 12:30-4 p.m. on Sunday, May 17.

UCLA volunteers can often be found helping out around the city on the weekends in UCLA’s One Bus, One Cause events.

Nearly 300 students in the 7th-9th grades in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with teachers and other adults, have taken ‘Wallace Walks’ through UCLA’s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden this year.

UCLA professor Purnima Mankekar will discuss her new book, 'Unsettling India,' 12-1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 15 in the Young Research Library Presentation Room.

UCLA's Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital received a grant of $60,000 from the LA Women’s Circle of Giving.

In a Q&A, M.V. Lee Badgett, UCLA Williams Distinguished Scholar, says that showing people data helps bring discrimination to light and counters stereotypes.

Jayathi Murthy will serve as the next dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, starting in January 2016.

Meet the journalist and cartoonist creators of the graphic novella, 'Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data,' on Tuesday, May 19 at UCLA.

U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation Anthony Foxx speaks at 5 p.m. on May 14 at L.A.'s Union Station for the UCLA Luskin School and L.A. Metro.

UCLA history professor Ivan Berend, who was liberated from Dachau 70 years ago and became a key figure in Hungary’s transition from communism, retired last week at the age of 85.

Harold Demsetz, an emeritus professor of business economics at UCLA, has won the Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of New Institutional Economics.

UCLA’s annual bike week is in full swing, offering regular cyclists and the bike-curious three “pit stops” from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Philip Rundel, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po`okela Award of Excellence for Books on Natural Science.

Eric Betzig, 2014 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, will speak at UCLA on June 1 about new optical imaging technologies for biology.

Chris Burden, renowned conceptual artist and a professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Art, died of cancer on May 10 at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69.

A generous gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro, all of whom are UCLA alumni, funded the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences.

In his recently published book, Aron reveals how Manifest Destiny influenced the Nazis and talks about how modern scholarship of the West now encompasses the area’s demographic diversity.

G. Jennifer Wilson, assistant vice provost for honors programs, is being recognized with the G. Jennifer Wilson Fund for Teaching Excellence and Innovation in the Honors Curriculum.

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.