Faculty + Staff

Matt Rosenstein (right) and a Pathway friend in the bleachers at a Bruins baseball game.For the past eight years, one of Matt Rosenstein’s best friends has been Alexis, who is autistic. They met at Santa Monica High School when Rosenstein was a...

Should we just adapt to climate change?   UCLA environmental historian Jon Christensen (from the left) speaks to Andrew Revkin, writer of an environmental blog at the New York Times, and Alex Hall, a UCLA scientist. The question raises the...

The UCLA professors are among 126 scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada to receive the prestigious honor from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Armen A. Alchian, a UCLA economist known for groundbreaking research on the employee–employer relationship, the hidden inefficiencies of governmental regulation, and the forces that determine the success of firms, died today at his home in Los Angeles. The professor emeritus of economics was 98.

Today’s tech-savvy young people expect quick answers from both people and machines, and are more tolerant of social, ethnic and cultural differences, according to a well-known Harvard educator who spoke to a capacity crowd at Schoenberg Hall...

Jeffrey Simon, a visiting professor of political science and expert on terrorism and political violence, is the author of a new book, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat."

More than 50 of the world’s top Mars scientists gathered in Royce Hall last week to discuss whether life could survive on the red planet. Three dozen talks over two days covered topics ranging widely from the current liquid water activity on...

UCLA's Jeffrey Simon, a visiting professor of political science and expert on terrorism and political violence, discusses the case of fugitive ex-L.A. cop Christopher Dorner.

More than 1,450 staff and faculty hit the sidewalks and walkways in and around campus this week to take part in UCLA Recreation's annual spring-into-fitness event, I♥Walking. Celebrate Valentine's Day with a gift to yourself. Today from noon...

Feb. 19 update: Organizers say this year's Dance Marathon raised a record $475,422.57 to benefit pediatric AIDS.      Have you ever danced for six hours straight, then realized there were 20 more hours to go? You have if you’ve...

Funding from state taxpayers helped Lei Zhang, a researcher with the UCLA School of Dentistry, get the state-of-the-art equipment he needs in his quest to develop a more accurate, less costly and less invasive test for breast cancer. It might...

Almost a year after researchers at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the State University of New York–Stony Brook released a study showing that the unemployed face discrimination in the hiring process because of their jobless status,...

Maestro James Conlon, music director of the LA Opera and the 2013 UCLA Regents' Lecturer, will give a series of public lectures on Verdi and Wagner, "Struggle, Success, and Mastery: Romantic Opera in Three Acts," at the Hammer Museum...

After toiling for 18 years in the English Department’s reading room, head librarian Lynda Tolly admits she would be hard-pressed to put into words what makes the wood-paneled sanctuary so special.   "I can think of only about five words...