Dr. Richard Jackson, a professor of environmental health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected to receive the Henry Hope Reed Award from the University of Notre Dame.
'Fragments of Extinction: An Environmental Sound-Art Project on the Acoustic Biodiversity of Rainforests' will be presented on Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m. at the California NanoSystems Institute.
Benjamin Nathan will join UCLA Health Sciences as the chief information officer for the David Geffen School of Medicine, effective on May 4. Nathan will provide the vision and leadership for the administration, research and educational information systems of the medical school.
As a part of its series on the films of DeMille, the UCLA Film and Television Archive screens “Union Pacific” Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater.
Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba of the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies will discuss her new book on Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m. in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 144 Haines Hall.
Advance tickets are just $2 for UCLA Women’s Basketball's 9th Annual Play 4 Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game versus Arizona State on Friday, Feb 20, 7 p.m., at Pauley Pavilion.
Professor Philip Kellman of the UCLA Department of Psychology was invited by the White House to participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience and Learning on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C.
UCLA Musicology will open the floodgates of Bruin faculty and student musical talent Thursday, Jan. 29 with “UCLA Sings!” The free concert launches a two-day conference.
The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the UC regents is now open. Staff members will have until March 6 to submit an application. The new staff advisor will serve on the Board of Regents from July 2015 through June 2017.
Renowned UCLA transplant surgeon Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil has been awarded the Hospital Physician Leadership Award by the Los Angeles County Medical Association.
UCLA Transportation’s focus on alternative transportation and success in reducing traffic and emissions at UCLA won an award from the California Environmental Protection Agency
Distinguished Professor Ali Mosleh, the Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the first director of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA.
UCLA Education and Information Studies Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was among eight faculty members in the school who were featured in Education Week’s annual “Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.”
Sarah Stein has been awarded a National Jewish Book Award for her work as the co-author of "Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950." Stein was honored in the category of Sephardic culture and was given the Mimi S. Frank Award.
Join the UCLA Department of History for a panel discussion on World War I in the Fowler Museum's Lenart Auditorium on January 27 at 7 p.m. UCLA's James Gelvin, Ivan T. Berend and Geoffrey Symcox will be speaking.
Yoram Cohen, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named interim director of the Y and S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in the UCLA International Institute.
A paper published in JAMA Neurology by Dr. Brent Fogel, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, was cited as a “Best Advances of 2014” by the editorial advisory board of Neurology Today.
Timothy Deming, UCLA professor of chemistry, biochemistry and bioengineering, has been appointed as an associate editor of the American Chemical Societ Journal, Biomacromolecules.
Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black, UCLA professors of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, have been awarded a three-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on the immune system’s response to pathogens.