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The UCLA professor hopes to open minds, change the conversation and help save lives.

The events will be curated and hosted by Stuart Wolpert, a 40-year veteran of UCLA’s media relations office.

Michael Waterstone was a Bruin long before he returned to campus in August.

The professor emeritus was known for his key contribution to windsurfing as well as his predictive theory of happiness.

The award is the society's highest honor for atmospheric scientists.

A course being developed by UCLA labor studies professor Tobias Higbie will aim to inspire a new generation of change-makers.

The five-year, $1.25 million grant will fund research that could help solve a longstanding problem called the symmetry violation.

The funds will support research on technologies to precisely measure the previously unmeasurable.

Staff, faculty and students interested interesting in helping are encouraged to donate to the UCLA Health Maui Wildfire Recovery Fund. 

Lohmann, a UCLA alumna, lecturer and clinical faculty member, helped prepare thousands of nursing students for careers in the profession.

That Latin American Institute summer program prepares K–12 instructors to bring new knowledge into their classrooms.

Harryette Mullen, celebrated poet, literary scholar and UCLA English professor, has a singular way of connecting readers with the world around them.

After 17 years at the helm of the nation’s top-ranked public university, the campus’s ninth chief executive will conclude his tenure in July 2024.

He was the considered the leading authority on the Indo-Asian collision, the geological event that formed the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau.

A faculty member for more than 50 years, he was a renowned expert on the Armenian Genocide.

Each winning faculty member will receive $10,000 to create a new UCLA course in which students will collaborate with partners in the community.

Professor Michael Rothberg, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, examines how people and societies recall traumatic historical events.

An expert on carbon capture and conversion technology, she is currently chair of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University.

Dr. Kenneth Wells’ composition is his second one based on a professor’s lifelong struggle with schizophrenia.

A leader in translational medicine and member of the UCLA faculty since 1988, he has served as interim dean since September 2021.

Professors Jolie Chea and Loubna Qutami discuss how the field of Asian American studies is evolving.

Yousef Bozorgnia, Sharon Dolovich and Aaron Littman will receive Public Impact Research Awards at a June 2 ceremony.

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi teaches a course that looks at how and why their memory is silenced, and how cultural memory can push back against state-imposed forgetting.

UCLA’s newest honorees are Miguel García-Garibay, Leonid Kruglyak, Gary Segura and Min Zhou.

Back after COVID, the unique partnership has fostered educational, research and cultural opportunities on both sides of the Pacific.