UCLA social welfare professor Jorja Leap has been awarded a $200,000, two-year funding commitment from the California Wellness Foundation to create the UCLA Luskin Watts Center for Nonprofit Management.
Special Olympics World Games executives on Nov. 30 presented UCLA Chancellor Gene Block with a commemorative torch to thank the campus for hosting athletes and events last summer.
Researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research have received a $400,000 grant to find out why individuals who receive both Medi-Cal and Medicare benefits are rejecting the new state-managed health care pilot program.
Harran was honored for building new chemical compounds that are used to drive scientific research; Black for his study of genetic regulation at the RNA level.
The UCLA Distinguished Professor of History and Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on Dec. 9.
Jack Share, who in the 1970s served as an assistant professor in UCLA’s Special Education Division and the Graduate School of Education, died on Nov. 4 at Kaiser Hospital in Woodland Hills.
The vast majority of policy-covered UCLA staff members feel they have a clear understanding of how their jobs contribute to their department’s goals and feel proud to be associated with UCLA and UC, according to a survey.