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As a way to thank UCLA’s dedicated, hard-working campus staff, UCLA Dining Services is inviting staff members to lunch at a discounted rate from Sept. 1-5.

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an ultra-compact X-ray free electron laser.

Dr. Joseph K. Perloff, the founding director of the Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, died Aug. 18 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., of complications from coronary artery disease. He was 89.

Photographer Catherine Opie and ethnomusicologist Daniel Neuman made the Art Career Project's list of “15 Noteworthy Art Professors in Los Angeles.”

Susan Dietz, five-time Tony nominee and producer of such Broadway hits as “Fela!,” “The Little Dog Laughed” and “Mothers and Sons,” will be coming to UCLA in February to teach an immersive five-week course on the fundamentals of producing on- and off-Broadway shows.

Dr. Peter Lawrence was recently named president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Geoffrey Mess, a professor of mathematics who made important contributions to topology and geometric group theory, has died after an extended illness. He was 54.

On August 22 at 2 p.m., Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds and awareness for lifesaving childhood cancer research. The goal is to raise $5,000.

Sociology professor Judith A. Seltzer has been elected president of the Population Association of America for 2015. She will serve as president-elect in 2015 and as president in 2016.

Joyce Appleby's “Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination” is in the running to win the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.

“Street Muse: Kenya” will screen on Aug. 21 at the UCLA Fowler Museum, followed by conversation with director and star.

Employees still adjusting to the recent flooding enjoy eating, relaxing and dancing at the 10th annual thank you celebration for staff from every campus department.

The Hammer is inviting all families in the Los Angeles area to its courtyard to reflect on the timeless question: Why does art matter?

UCLA Fowler Museum is hosting 'Mask Making' as part of its Kids in the Courtyard series on Sunday, August 17 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

"GHOST SHIFT," an exhibition featuring work by UCLA Department of Art staff members Chris Bassett, Ed Beller, Deanna Erdmann, Ben Evans, Whitney Hubbs, Jared Pankin and Steven Simon, opens at the New Wight Gallery.

James C. Liao, UCLA's Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemical Engineering, has been named to Taiwan's Academia Sinica, the preeminent academic institution in the Republic of China.

Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected to receive the 2014 Booker Fellowship.

Eli Yablonovitch, adjunct professor of electrical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected to receive the 2014 Rank Prize.

Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science in UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, received the SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award.

Stanley Osher, UCLA professor of mathematics and director of applied mathematics, is the third person ever to receive the prestigious Gauss Prize, the highest honor in applied mathematics.

Sherell Vance has joined the UCLA softball staff as director of operations, and Hayden Maurice has joined as volunteer assistant coach, announced coach Kelly Inouye-Perez.

George Hilton, a UCLA professor of transportation economics, died Aug. 4 of heart failure at Lorien Health Park in Columbia, Maryland.

Professor Diana Huffaker has been selected by IEEE as a Distinguished Lecturer for year 2015 in the area of photonic devices. As a Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Huffaker will help lead the Photonics Society in technical developments that will shape ...

UCLA’s Hammer Museum presents the latest “Flux” screening of short films, music videos, filmmaker retrospectives and visual artwork from around the world, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Admission is free.

UCLA Transportation reopened about 500 spaces in Parking Structure 4 to a limited number of permit holders today.