Faculty + Staff

Donna Coyne of UC Santa Barbara has been selected as the 2013-2015 Staff Advisor-designate to the University of California regents, UC President Mark Yudof announced Tuesday. Coyne, associate director of admissions for application services at...

In this latest installment of “After Hours” — a series about faculty and staff who balance their work lives with fascinating hobbies or side jobs — meet UCLA history professor Margaret Jacob and her beloved dog, Blizzard....

Kelsey Doorey and Anna Baxter, two M.B.A. students at UCLA Anderson School of Management, see nothing wrong with always being a bridesmaid — never a bride. To make the experience more pleasurable and more affordable, they are...

UCLA Anderson recently hosted a reception last week to celebrate the opening of ‘Dreamscapes,’ the celebrated artwork of Jane Gottlieb that will be on view at the school for the next decade. The collection includes 25...

Speyer has worked on the guidance, navigation and control systems of vital aerospace and military craft for 50 years, including NASA's Apollo missions to the moon.

UCLA volunteers planted 22 new trees on Sunday in Westwood Village as part of the fourth annual WOMP, the Westwood Organized Meaningful Projects service day.

With the three-day Memorial Day weekend coming up, veterans and their supporters on campus want everyone to take a moment to reflect on the many contributions made by service men and women, both those who have passed and those who are with us....

Teachers, family members and friends of more than 300 jubilant J.D. graduates and approximately 96 master of law graduates attended commencement ceremonies Friday at Dickson Court North. The UCLA School of Law graduation was the first of more...

In this Q&A, UCLA law professor Stuart Banner talks about his new book documenting the litigious history of America’s national pastime.

Despite budgetary constraints brought on by years of declining state funding, the University of California continues to outpace many of its peer institutions on critical measures of student success. UC — and UCLA in particular — ...

The 27th Annual Jazz Reggae Festival will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 and 27, and will feature artists such as Common, Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Jhene Aiko and others. Jazz Reggae is a two-day festival, the largest student-run music...

On Tuesday last week, a middle-aged scholar lectured in a Royce Hall conference room on the role of Padua as the true cradle of the Italian Renaissance. Later that day, that same Ph.D. candidate stepped into a different world. He walked...

It was 6 a.m. Wednesday in Pauley Pavilion, and dozens of undergrads were hoisting lights onto scaffolding, pounding floorboards and pushing massive speakers on dollies into place. Two days before Spring Sing, these members of the UCLA Student...

Faculty and staff whose to-do lists include items like "schedule an eye exam" or "get new glasses" can look forward to taking care of these tasks on campus when a new full-service optometry center opens summer 2014 at Ackerman Student Union....

Sharon Belkin, a UCLA biological artist who provided graphics for medical research for 18 years before she retired, is one of 26 emeriti whose work will be showcased at the Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibit on Tuesday, May 21,...

University of California President Mark Yudof presented the Board of Regents Wednesday a report that charted the significant changes of the past six years and offered a candid assessment of how UC is performing today.   Yudof, who will step...

In the midst of a raging national debate on how Americans use marijuana, a team of student researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is collecting data that could help separate marijuana fact from fiction. Led by social welfare...

University of California students remain highly satisfied with their education overall, and with their access to courses needed to graduate, according to a survey of UC undergraduates released this week.   Despite dramatic reductions in state...

Canyon Diablo, a 357-pound chunk of a meteor that slammed into Earth 50,000 years ago, sits center stage at UCLA's new Meteorite Museum. Nearly 50,000 years ago, an asteroid fragment slammed into Earth approximately 40 miles east of what is...