UCLA receives grant from Bezos Earth Fund to support urban greening projects
The Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies will help journalists inform underserved communities on public works.
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Hammer Summer Concerts 2023 with KCRW
Enjoy free live concerts, sets by DJs, happy hour and extended gallery hours on Thursdays in July in the Hammer Museum’s courtyard.
Researchers awarded $2 million grant from National Cancer Institute
Their focus will be on designing better combination therapies that target the immune system to treat prostate cancer.
Scholars receive contract from California Health & Human Services
The professors will help design a program to create standards of care for youth moved from state facilities to country-run programs.
UCLA researchers receive grant from National Institutes of Health
They will seek to develop an early-stage test to detect hepatocellular carcinoma — the most common type of liver cancer.
UCLA leaders honored by Los Angeles Business Journal
The Los Angeles Business Journal has recognized Johnese Spisso as CEO of the Year and Mary Osako as a finalist for Executive of the Year.
4 professors receive 2023 Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars
Each winning faculty member will receive $10,000 to create a new UCLA course in which students will collaborate with partners in the community.
Carlo Medina to lead UC-wide Southern Regional Library Facility, UCLA Library Unified Access Services
Dual role intersects provision of research materials to campus and academic communities across the University of California system.
Amander Clark to start as president of International Society for Stem Cell Research
The professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology has been a member of the organization for nearly 20 years.
Andrew Goldstein receives grant from Department of Defense
The professor will seek better treatments for prostate cancer by studying how metabolism changes after hormone therapy.
Exploring the fraught nature of memory and comparison
Professor Michael Rothberg, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, examines how people and societies recall traumatic historical events.
UCLA Magazine, Alumni Affairs, School of Medicine win CASE Circle of Excellence Awards
The annual global competition honors innovation and impact in education-related publishing and other fields.
Chemist Anastassia Alexandrova receives 2023 Gold Shield Faculty Prize
The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research and service.
Alissa Park named dean of UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
An expert on carbon capture and conversion technology, she is currently chair of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University.
Celebrating Alfred Herrera and UCLA’s Center for Community College Partnerships
The retiring founder and director looks back on the sea change he sparked in his 42 years of campus service.
Ambre Bertholet named 2023 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences
The professor, who will receive four years of funding, plans to study how mitochondria can be steered toward generating heat.
Anastassia Alexandrova wins 2023 Brown Investigator Award
The theoretical chemist, who will get up to $2 million over five years, is the first UCLA professor to receive the honor.
Aomar Boum receives gold medal for graphic novel about Holocaust
The historical fiction work by the UCLA professor and illustrator Nadjib Berber was honored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Dr. Theodore Moore receives grant from Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation
The professor will conduct research trials in children with relapsed cancer and study new ways to treat incurable brain tumors.
UCLA psychiatrist adapts memoir about overcoming mental illness into opera
Dr. Kenneth Wells’ composition is his second one based on a professor’s lifelong struggle with schizophrenia.
Students aren’t the only ones graduating this commencement season
UCLA employee Christopher Bower tells us how professional development programs can help staff forge their future.
UCLA’s work on housing issues takes center stage at mayoral summit
Chancellor Gene Block was honored by the Los Angeles Business Council for leading the campus’s commitment to student housing.
Dr. Steven Dubinett named dean of David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
A leader in translational medicine and member of the UCLA faculty since 1988, he has served as interim dean since September 2021.
Dr. Cecilia Canales selected for National Academy of Medicine program
The professor’s research focus includes studying factors that contribute to postoperative neurocognitive disorders in minority elders.
Q&A: ‘Creative and consistent, fierce and flamboyant’
Professors Jolie Chea and Loubna Qutami discuss how the field of Asian American studies is evolving.