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Open Projector Night at the Hammer

Open Projector Night returns to the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. This unique, short-film festival features original films and videos of all genres created by independent filmmakers — which can include you, if...

Dancer to walk down side of Broad Art Center today

"Man Walking down the Side of a Building" was performed in New York in 2010. If you happen to be strolling by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center today around noon and suddenly notice someone walking down the side of the eight-story building,...

Fast-track your professional development

UCLA’s Professional Development Program (PDP), designed to fast-track high-potential employees for leadership positions, is accepting applications for its 2013-14 session until April 25. Now in its 19th year, PDP is one of the most successful...

Four-legged hospital volunteers star in PBS reality series

For nearly a decade, dedicated teams of therapy dogs and their human companions have brought comfort to thousands of critically ill patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center through UCLA’s People-Animal Connection (PAC)....

Emerging Research Speaker Series features Andrea Ghez

Andrea Ghez, award-winning professor of physics and astronomy whose work in techniques, such as the adaptive-optics system used by the Keck telescopes, has led to discoveries about star-forming regions and the super-massive black hole...

Staff News -- March 27, 2013

UCLA men’s volleyball coach to lead U.S. Men's National Team. Staffer collaborates on documentary about 2011 Japanese disasters.

Would you let a UCLA undergrad do your taxes?

Although tax season doesn’t usually summon warm feelings for most of us, this year it might help to know that some students at UCLA use tax season to do some good in the world.UCLA is home to one of the most prestigious chapters of the the...

The Lyder side of Westwood

Courtney Lyder, the charismatic dean of UCLA’s School of Nursing, has become a regular at Westwood eateries — so much so that several of them have named cocktails or dishes after him.

East meets West in an artwork

"Man in Korean Costume," about 1617, Peter Paul Rubens. The J. Paul Getty Museum A new exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum, "Looking East: Ruben’s Encounter with Asia," is built around a drawing of a man in Asian dress created by Peter Paul...

Empowering girls to achieve in Rwanda

Faculty from UCLA’s African Studies Center will be focusing their attention for the next two-and-a-half years on improving the bleak future for girls growing up in Rwanda by building a partnership with a key teacher-training institute in...

Newly admitted freshmen a-twitter with excitement

Twitter has been a flurry of ecstatic tweets as high school seniors across the nation learn if they've been admitted to UCLA’s fall 2013 freshman class. Starting last Friday, March 22, at 5 p.m., they got the news by...

Docents wanted at UCLA's Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

Docents recently led a group of UCLA Staff Assembly members on a tour of the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. For the first time in several years, the garden is seeking volunteer docents. No background in botany is required. Training consists of...

Monthlong Coldwater Canyon closures could clog commute

Construction beginning Saturday, March 23, will cause serious traffic woes on Coldwater Canyon, and though UCLA commuters most likely already use roads farther west, displaced Coldwater drivers could increase traffic on favored Bruin routes.

Campus community beats drum for UCLA, UC at State Capitol

SACRAMENTO — A spirited contingent of 40 volunteer faculty, staff, students and friends descended on the State Capitol Tuesday, UC Day, to tell 33 Los Angeles area state legislators and their representatives how UCLA has...

Students change course from traditional spring break

When spring break begins this weekend, some UCLA students are packing bathing suits and heading to the beach, but other Bruins are packing grubby work clothes to restore the bayou in New Orleans or headed for research in the mountains.

Women's basketball team earns No. 3 seed in NCAA Tournament

Members of the UCLA women’s basketball team erupted in cheers after learning they had earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They will face No. 14 Stetson on Saturday, March 23, in first-round action in the Oklahoma City Region. This...
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