Faculty + Staff

The world's first physician to be board-certified in both pediatrics and ophthalmology, UCLA's Apt was a tireless innovator who was best known for developing an eye drop to prevent surgery-related blindness.

More than 200 Bruins and members of the UCLA community dropped by campus for free haircuts Thursday to donate their tresses to make children's wigs.

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 Brigham Harwell, a development assistant for the UCLA Fund who spends his weekends...

A new video from UCLA Events and Transportation may be aimed at new hires, but its quick-hit overview of all the alternative transportation options available to UCLA commuters could help any Bruin who feels tied to their car.

The Spirit Squad cheers for UCLA Football's team. Bruin football fans poured into Pauley Pavilion Wednesday evening, along with sports reporters and TV cameras, for 2013 UCLA Football Signing Day.    Head coach Jim Mora, flanked...

Bertozzi, professor of mathematics and director of applied mathematics at UCLA, has been named the inaugural holder of UCLA's Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity.

  Research suggests that people who are overweight or obese tend to be stereotyped as lazy, less intelligent and less efficient. But do these biases "leak out" in subtle ways in our daily interactions with overweight...

Chemical and biomolecular engineer James C. Liao was honored for his innovative methods of producing alternative fuels and his work on metabolic diseases.

 

MIAS student Robert Vaszari winds through a reel of 35mm film. Among the many categories that are recognized at the Academy Awards, excellence in film restoration is, for now, absent. However, students in the Moving Image Archive...

Want to avoid long lines at the bank and needless trips to an ATM? Want full access to all the dollars in your UCLA paycheck on payday, instead of having to wait one day later? How would you like to receive your paycheck even if you’re ill or...

Locks of Love returns to campus Thursday, Feb. 7, offering free haircuts to people willing to donate 10 inches or more.

Starting this spring, UCLA will add sand volleyball as a women’s intercollegiate sport, bringing the total number of intercollegiate athletic teams to 25 — 15 for women and 10 for men.   The team will be coached by UCLA Athletics...

The 134 students taking Ken Kragen’s inaugural Music Industry 106 class, "Stardom Strategies for Musicians," are primed to expect the unexpected. It started on the first day of class, taught by the longtime music industry...

For fourth-year anthropology major Linnet Luna, readings and lectures in her "Gender and Language in Society" class on the social context of communication came to life at the Bresee Foundation, a nonprofit community organization a world apart from campus.

Since the Jan. 8 launch of the University of California’s Campus Climate Study, nearly 17 percent of UCLA's students, faculty and staff have completed the systemwide survey, a tool that's being used to learn about the campus community's...