Faculty + Staff

Dr. Jody Heymann, an internationally renowned researcher on health and social policy, is among 70 new members and 10 foreign associates honored this year.

Vladimir Keilis-Borok, a UCLA seismologist and mathematical geophysicist who, along with his research team, developed a method intended to accurately predict earthquakes months in advance, died Oct. 19 after a long illness. He was 92.

A UCLA banner in the rotunda at City Hall on UCLA Day in Downtown L.A. Two outstanding UCLA community service programs were lauded for their "exemplary commitment to improving quality of life in Los Angeles" during a ceremony at L.A.’s City...

Alfred Herrera receives national award for improving higher-ed access for underrepresented  students Alfred Herrera, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Partnerships in the Center for Community College Partnerships, has received the 2013...

"Spring Silkworms," an 80-year-old Chinese film regarded as one of the first successful attempts to weave progressive politics into Chinese popular cinema, will be shown this Sunday at the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum as part of...

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and distinguished professor of education, and his wife, Carola Suárez-Orozco, professor of education, have been invited to speak at a conference titled, ...

This Thursday at 10:17 a.m., members of the UCLA campus community will "drop, cover and hold on" as they participate in "The Great California Shakeout," a statewide earthquake drill.   As part of the university’s participation, the UCLA...

The University of California wants you: That is the message thousands of high school students will hear in the coming weeks as senior leaders from all 10 campuses visit schools in low-income communities around the state.   The event, called...

Now housed in the UCLA Department of English, the University of California Press magazine is produced by Jon Christensen with support from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Matute studies how to transform notoriously car-dependent cities like Los Angeles into cleaner, greener, but still useable public-transit hubs. Here, he talks policy, climate change and what we can do.

Quyen Di Chuc Bui not only teaches Vietnamese language, literature and culture, but he teaches other teachers how to do the same. Photo by Peggy McInerny/UCLA. Quyen Di Chuc Bui, the head of UCLA’s Vietnamese language program, doesn’t...

Zocalo Public Square recently invited economist M.V. Lee Badgett, research director of UCLA’s Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of...

Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) is hosting a Balkan Dance Party on the Royce Hall Terrace Tuesday, Oct. 8, free and open to UCLA students, faculty and staff. Starting at 6:30 p.m. and featuring performances from Free Range...