Faculty + Staff

Aradhna Tripati is being recognized as someone who has made contributions to research in the geological sciences and has helped open the geoscience field to other minorities.

For those looking to understand a proposal to limit the president’s ability to use nuclear weapons, UCLA will be hosting the congressman for a talk at the law school.

Andrew Wissmiller, UCLA associate vice chancellor for information technology services, shares how to enroll, why UCLA is using it and where to get assistance.

The work of Casey Reas, UCLA design and media arts professor, is on display at the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine.

Shaily Mahendra, a UCLA associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2017 Paul L. Busch Award.

Connie Kasari, UCLA professor of education and psychiatry and a founding member of the Center for Autism Research and Treatment, received the Acceleration Award.

Michael Stenstrom distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering received the Camp Applied Research Award.

Kimberlé Crenshaw has been named the winner of the 2016–17 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University.

The film highlights the perspectives of women activists in the Indonesian women’s movement who were political prisoners in 1965.

Renee Tajima-Peña’s award-winning documentary “No Más Bebés” tells the story of how these women were sterilized without their consent or under extreme duress from doctors.

The Hammer Museum will show the 2015 documentary about forced sterilization directed by UCLA professor Renee Tajima-Peña, followed by a Q&A.

UCLA Staff Assembly and Campus Human Resources will host a learn-at-lunch event from noon to 1 p.m. on Nov. 15. focusing on changes to UC health plans.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will host the premiere director Chen Mei-Juin’s debut feature film at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Former UCLA football standout and assistant coach John Johnson died in his sleep on Oct. 14 at the age of 96.

Psychologist Patricia Greenfield’s “Weaving Generations Together” is on display at Powell Library through Dec. 15.

The recipients of UCLA’s highest honor for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Awards, were honored by the Academic Senate at a ceremony at the Chancellor’s residence on Oct. 11.

As the new director, Lee wants to utilize UCLA’s “tremendous group of scholars” to collaborate and shape the work being done at the center.

Shoup, the distinguished professor of urban planning and internationally renownded guru of parking, received Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

UCLA Luskin professors Laura Wray-Lake and Laura Abrams will lead the study of what youth civic engagement looks like in urban contexts.

A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineering faculty has received research funding as part of a major Army Research Laboratory-funded initiative.

Martin, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been appointed by California Gov. Jerry Brown to the 14-member committee that will advise the governor's office.

Gina Kornfeind is the support and bereavement coordinator for the Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Halfon, founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the academy.

Three researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently been awarded grants from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The grant comes from Shandong Longlive Bio-technology Co., a China-based company that produces functional sugars.