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On Wednesday, Aug. 17, the Fowler Museum presents “Waa’gey: Mysteries of the Wayfinding Voyagers,” a documentary about young men from Micronesia who build a canoe and sail to Guam.

David Yoo, director of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, will become vice provost of the Institute of American Cultures, effective Sept. 1.

If you spend hours commuting to work and sitting at your desk all day, recent studies about the health hazards of too much sitting probably have hit home.   

Ellen Scott, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has been named a 2016 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

More than 300 technology leaders, innovators, policymakers, journalists and academics will gather Friday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Club to share their ideas on closing the gender and diversity gap in the technology sector.

The Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology appointed Julienne Bower, UCLA professor of psychology and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, the George F. Solomon professorship of psychobiology.

Coates is the founding director for the UCLA Center for World Health, has been named the new director of the University of California Global Health Institute.

James Bowie, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College, will be honored at the society’s annual meeting in February in New Orleans.

The University of California is sending so many athletes that they make up 8 percent of the U.S. delegation. In all, UC participants are competing in 18 sports under the flags of 27 countries.

Ann Carlson, professor of environmental law and the inaugural faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, has given a series of lectures in Berlin and Frankfurt at the invitation of the U.S. State Department.

Stephen Hubbell, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, is the 2016 laureate of the International Prize for Biology for his outstanding contributions to biology research.

Devon Carbado, the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, is the inaugural associate vice chancellor of BruinX, a multidisciplinary unit within UCLA’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Lewin has joined UCLA as play-by-play announcer for Bruins football and men's basketball games.

UCLA health care professionals met with Los Angeles inner-city students during a UCLA Health Allied Health Job Fair at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie got permission from actress Elizabeth Taylor before she died in 2011 to photograph the star’s home and personal possessions during the last year of her life.

Disclosure of employee compensation data for 2015 is part of the university's commitment to being transparent and publicly accountable for its conduct.

On Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 7:30 p.m., the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Confucius Institute present "Body of the Buddha: Art of the Dunhuang Temples." The conversation will be led by historian D. Neil Schmid.

On Thursday at 8 p.m., trombonist Michael Vlatkovich and his band of versatile improvisers will perform in the Hammer Museum’s courtyard as part of the museum's 11th annual Jazz POP series of free concerts.  

The Greek tragedy, named after the first extant Jewish play by Ezekiel the Poet, highlights the shared struggles of ancient and modern peoples.

On Tuesday Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m., the Hammer Museum presents two political science experts to assess the likely outcome of November’s vote.

Steven Christiansen, a lecturer in architecture and urban design in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, recently received two International Design Awards in the category of conceptual architecture.

The UCLA faculty member and university organist recorded music for the movie on the world's largest functional church pipe organ.

The launch includes a wide range of educational resources to help eligible employees learn about their options and make informed decisions.

Saving a life was the last thing Dr. Stephanie Brenman, a fourth-year emergency medicine resident, expected to do as she rode on the last leg of a seven-day charity bike event.

Albert “Al” A. Barber, who served as vice chancellor of research programs at UCLA from 1971 to 1991, died at age 87 from lung cancer at his home in Upperville, Virginia, on July 30.