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Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April with a series of free events presented by UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $200,000 grant to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center to help the center make accessible seven archival collections of newspapers, magazines, personal papers, photographs, correspondence and other materials.

UCLA professor John Villasenor testified in a U.S. Senate hearing on issues of safety and privacy in the use of unmanned aircraft systems.

On the UCLA campus, a conference, a film series and a new opera commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

UCLA French and Francophone professor Alain Mabanckou is one of 10 authors worldwide who have been selected as finalists for this year’s Man Booker International Prize.

UCLA Recreation's Bruin MoveMail sends out twice-a-day emails to get deskbound faculty and staff out of their office chairs and into better health.

Students from the UCLA Lab School recently learned about the creative process of K.G. Campbell, the award-winning author and illustrator of “Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters” and “The Mermaid and the Shoe.” The event was presented by UCLA Writing Programs,

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh, a leading authority on the American Civil War and the legacy of Ulysses S. Grant, will give a free lecture on April 9, the 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox.

This year marks the 20th year that Michael Dukakis, the former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 presidential hopeful, has been teaching at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Joan Ling, an adjunct professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, was recently named “Woman of the Year” in Los Angeles County’s Third District.

Su Yin Mak, an internationally known music theorist and a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has joined the UCLA music department as a visiting scholar.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative is accepting nominations for the inaugural Jane Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Staff Appreciation and Recognition Award.

The UCLA Latin American Institute is presenting a lecture on chocolate and other community outreach activities to share the latest research findings on the Latin American region with L.A. residents.

Dr. Judith Baker, whose work led to the development of the first-ever hemophilia treatment centers in Nevada, Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific, was a featured guest March 13, 2015, at the signing of a proclamation declaring March to be Hemophilia Awareness Month in Guam.

About 60 UCLA staff members from Residential Life spent their St. Patrick's Day visiting the Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles Medical Center on Tuesday to lend a hand with gardening and several other projects

Dr. Reza Ardehali, UCLA assistant professor of cardiology, received the 2015 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology.

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library will be closed to the public starting April 1, to complete a seismic retrofit of the building as well as some interior renovations. 

Professor Linda Sarna, who holds the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Chair in the UCLA School of Nursing, has been appointed interim dean of the School of Nursing and will continue leading the nursing school through June 30, 2017. 

An update of BruinCard software will take place during UCLA's Spring Break, when there will be a rolling blackout from March 19-23, during which BruinCard users will not be able to use the card for deposits or financial transactions.

Join the UCLA Film and Television Archive's senior newsreel preservationist Blaine Bartell for a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and more through Hearst newsreels and footage of the era.

University of California employee contributions to the UC Retirement Plan will not increase for 2015, UC leadership recently announced.

Michael Jung, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, will receive the 2015 Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

The UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Learning has selected the 2014-2015 Senate faculty recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the highest honors given by the Senate.

Luz Herrera, assistant dean for clinical education, experiential learning and public service at UCLA School of Law, has been selected to receive the Hispanic National Bar Foundation’s Academic Leadership Award.

Jason Torres-Rangel, chair of the English department at UCLA Community School, has been named an Inspirational Teacher of 2015 by United Way of Greater Los Angeles.