Faculty + Staff

Dr. Earl Freymiller is the inaugural holder of the chair, which honors longtime supporters Bob and Marion Wilson for their generosity to the dental school.

UCLA’s Royce Hall was the venue for Monday night’s debate between Los Angeles’ top five mayoral candidates (from left to right): City Councilmember Jan Perry, attorney and radio talk-show host Kevin James, City Councilmember Eric...

Patrick Adler, an urban planning graduate student, found his study featured on the NFL Network.With Super Bowl Sunday just days away and the media running football stories of all stripes, an intriguing piece of research by UCLA graduate...

Joe, Josie and their fellow Bruins turned out Monday on Collins Court for the fair launching UCLA's Healthy Campus Initiative. Above, the crowd joins in a free hula-hooping demo, where an instructor shared ways to use the toy in a fitness routine.

The latest film series being hosted by the UCLA Film and Television Archive sheds light on a revolution that shook the foundations of the moviemaking industry and changed it forever:  how movie studios made the transition from silent film to...

UCLA number-cruncher Robert Cox does the math on where students are flowing and – dare we say – finds the most popular majors on campus.

Nineteen enthusiastic members of UCLA Anderson’s first Global Executive MBA for the Americas program graduated on Jan. 23 in the school’s Korn Convocation Hall. The program, offered jointly by UCLA and the Universidad Adolfo...

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television warmly welcomed more than 400 guests to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with a reception, co-hosted with a leading entertainment news website, The Wrap. Dean Teri Schwartz...

Professor and best-selling author Jared Diamond discussing his latest book at Royce Hall. (Photos by Nina Zacuto)Professor of geography Jared Diamond has spent decades exploring traditional cultures around the globe, contemplating...

In his new book, Berend analyzes the economic and social causes of the European recession of 2008-12 and says flaws in the EU should have been a clear warning of impending economic troubles.

It’s been five years since Sherry Ortner stepped from the academic world into the inner circle of independent filmmakers and producers gathered in Park City, Utah, to participate in the nation’s largest and most...

Danny Flores’ New Year’s resolution has a ring of familiarity to many of us: He’s determined to eat healthier, exercise and shed 10 pounds. Fortunately for Flores, a 16-year employee with UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services,...

  At an athletically rich school like UCLA, it’s not unusual to see student-athletes hobbling around campus, recovering from surgery or injuries they’ve incurred during the season. But when the student is a current professional...

The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the Board of Regents opens today (Jan. 22),  the University of California Office of the President announced. The position's term runs from July 2013 through June 2015.   UC...

Laurie MaldonadoA report that smashes stereotypes about single mothers in the United States "living off the dole" drew national media attention to the work of Laurie Maldonado, a doctoral student in social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School...

In conjunction with its exhibition, "Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews," UCLA’s Fowler Museum will be hosting a Pre-Purim Bash, open to the public, on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8-11 p.m. Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates...

Sensor module, as worn by amputee subject When most people walk, they do so in a symmetrical fashion: They take even steps and place equal pressure on each foot as it touches the ground, with the heel striking first, the arch second, the toe...

BHIP participant in a class last fall works out with a medicine ball.Death-by-10-meter sprints. Arm-aching push-ups followed by lunges, then laps. Heart-pounding stair-climbing at Drake Stadium in the heat of high noon.   Ah,...