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Napolitano nominated to head UC system
The University of California Regents’ presidential search committee has nominated U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to serve as the 20th president of the system. If approved by the...
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Tricking your eye, brain
The Hammer Museum's current exhibition, "Richard Artschwager!," presents 150 sculptures, paintings and drawings that showcase the extraordinary breadth of subject matter and form of Artschwager's...
View ArticleSix steps could cut heart failure readmissions
Study Highlights: Researchers have identified six steps hospital staff can do to help heart failure patients avoid another hospital stay in the 30 days after they’re discharged. The strategy is even...
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National champion UCLA baseball team honored at athletics Hall of Fame
Did you miss the welcome home rally for the 2013 NCAA champion UCLA Bruins baseball team? No worries, because the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame has a new display commemorating their amazing season. The...
View ArticleWomen played critical role in Zimmerman decision
Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA and the author of "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots." This piece appeared originally on...
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The U.S. v. Trayvon Martin: How the system worked
Robin D.G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History. Kelley's research and teaching cover the history of labor and radical movements in the United States, the African Diaspora, and...
View ArticleNew community garden approved for Calavera Hills
At this week’s City Council workshop, the Carlsbad City Council approved establishing a new community garden on an underutilized half acre plot in the southeastern corner of Calavera Hills Community...
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Grad students gain new family-friendly benefit
For Jack Caughey, a UCLA teaching assistant working on his Ph.D. in English literature, the pressures of parenthood are a little different than for the average working dad.“As a grad student, you have...
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Outdoor theater comes to the Clark Library
Members of the Chalk Repertory Theater will be performing "Lady Windermere's Fan" Saturday, July 27, on the grounds of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.In an effort to bring its...
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Regents approve increase in UCRP contributions for 2014
The UC Board of Regents today approved an increase in contributions to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) from both the university and employees, effective July 2014. Today’s action is part of a broader...
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Parting words: UCLA's newest retirees reflect on the past, embrace the future
Summer will be with us for several more weeks, but for UCLA faculty and staff who recently retired, this is the beginning of an endless summer. Here, some make their farewells with fond memories and...
View ArticleAmong Indian immigrants, religious practice and obesity may be linked, study...
Asian Indians are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, and roughly half a million people of Indian ancestry live in California — more than any other state. Individuals from...
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This fungus cell only looks like the 405 freeway
(For more video on Neruospora crassa, see the end of this release.) No, those are not cars darting along a busy highway. The glowing specks you're seeing in this video are millions of nuclei flowing...
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Staff News — July 17, 2013
Longtime Facilities Management 'chief' has passed awayRandy Cook, who spent 41 years in Facilities Management at UCLA helping keep things on campus working properly, died suddenly June 20 at his home...
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Got housing woes? The Hammer offers consumers help
Olga Koumoundouros's Dream Home Resource Center is located in the UCLA Hammer Museum's Lobby Gallery, which is free to enter. Photos by Marianne Williams.When we go to art museums, it’s usually to...
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High school 'diplomats' work to avert world crisis at UCLA's model UN
For seven days this summer, high school students from around the world converged on UCLA to become diplomats at an academic simulation of the United Nations. High school students from around the world...
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Breaking a sweat while exercising regularly may help reduce stroke risk
Study Highlights: Breaking a sweat while working out regularly may help lower your stroke risk. Inactive people were more likely to experience a stroke or mini-stroke. Regular activity seems to lower...
View ArticleA constitutional right to health care
Uruguay has it. So does Latvia, and Senegal. In fact, more than half of the world's countries have some degree of a guaranteed, specific right to public health and medical care for their citizens...
View ArticleChair of UC Board of Regents comments on Napolitano appointment
Bruce Varner, chair of the UC Board of Regents, issued this letter regarding the appointment of Janet Napolitano as president of the University of California: Dear UC Colleagues, As chairman of the...
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Napolitano appointed president of UC
The University of California Board of Regents today appointed Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a two-term governor of Arizona, as the 20th president of the...
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