A UCLA Health faculty member was honored as one of the top women leaders of 2019 on Monday. Johnese Spisso, CEO of UCLA Hospital System and associate vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences, was named one of 2019’s Top 25 Women Leaders by the health care news publication Modern Healthcare. The award is given to […]
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Ted Lieu given The Dr. Winston Doby Impact Award for support of higher education
This post was updated Feb. 21 at 2:30 p.m. Democrat Congressman Ted Lieu received an award for his efforts to improve higher education at an event on campus Tuesday. Lieu, who represents California’s 33rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, received The Dr. Winston Doby Impact Award for his support of students […]
USAC votes in support of The Agora, citing potential to bring down housing costs
Student government endorsed a high-rise housing project in Westwood on Tuesday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted unanimously, with four abstentions, to support The Agora, a proposed 16-story high-rise project on Hilgard Avenue. The project has been met with both support and opposition from different neighborhood councils and community groups. USAC heard presentations by opponents […]
UCLA resident physicians continue negotiations over salary and housing stipend
Resident physicians at UCLA will continue bargaining with the university over their salaries, an incomplete housing stipend and other benefits after more than four months of negotiation. The Committee of Interns and Residents, the union representing over 1,200 residents and fellows at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, will negotiate with UCLA on Thursday […]
USAC recap – Feb. 19
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Bruin Viewpoint Room and are open to all students. Watch a livestream of the meetings on the USAC Live! channel on YouTube. Public Comment: Oscar Macias, chairperson […]
UCLA Pritzker Center awards five grants in support of research for foster youth
Five interdisciplinary and community-based service teams received the inaugural UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families grants to support research for youth and families in the child welfare system, according to a university press release. The center awarded each team a one-year grant of up to $25,000 to expand their research or service projects. […]
Professors of economics and engineering awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Three UCLA professors were awarded fellowships to continue research in their respective fields Tuesday. Denis Chetverikov, Yongjie Hu and Aaswath Raman were among 126 United States and Canadian researchers who received the 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship. The annual award, granted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, offers each recipient a two-year fellowship and $70,000 for […]