Undereducated workers, the shift to a services economy, outsourcing and other challenges factor into America's slow job growth, says economist Lee Ohanian.

Mary Petersen, on staff for 40 years, has given $100,000 to help staff members take advantage of opportunities to develop their potential at the Anderson School.

Professor M. Belinda Tucker has been appointed to serve in the newly established position of vice provost of the Institute of American Cultures, the administrative hub for UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. 

Dr. Gary Small, director of the UCLA Longevity Center, has been studying Alzheimer’s for more than two decades and sharing his findings in bestselling books and media appearances. He shares new research findings and advice in his latest book, "The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program."

For years, M.B.A. students have helped foreign companies go international. A new grant will use that expertise to help more Southern California companies export internationally.

With the intent of sharing UCLA’s resources and expertise more broadly across Los Angeles, UCLA Media Relations and Public Outreach is partnering with Zocalo to offer more public events featuring faculty and campus leaders to citywide audiences.

 

Supporting cancer research is easy, especially if you're working on your California tax form.  

More than 500 K-6 students from six elementary schools were invited by the UCLA Confucius Institute to the Freud Theater to see the concert performed by Zhejiang Normal University students, who were on the last leg of their tour of select U.S. cities. 

Seven-year-old Caroline Ennis came to UCLA Thursday for her first-ever big haircut. The UCLA professor's daughter donated almost a foot of it so that a sick child could have her flowing locks as a wig.

Across UCLA, the people in charge of feeding the campus are working hard to make eating a greener proposition.

Children living in some of L.A.'s toughest communities in poverty and violence are finding help in Beat the Odds. The UCLArts and Healing program melds drumming and group counseling to teach kids how to express their feelings and cultivate respect for themselves and others.

On Feb. 7, the UCLA Library and the Department of English are joining lovers of Charles Dickens everywhere in celebrating the author's 200th birthday with a commemorative exhibit, lecture and film screening.

Last Friday, 17-year-old heart-transplant recipient Donovan Ho thanked the 11 blood and platelet donors whose 72 donations at UCLA helped keep him alive when his heart failed in 2010. Ho and the donors all waived confidentiality in order to meet each other, something most donors and recipients never get to do. The UCLA Blood and Platelet Center organized the reunion, which included five Bruin donors, identified by their "halos" in the photo above. Click through for their names and stories.

Beginning in March, all faculty, staff and retirees who have family members enrolled in UC-sponsored medical, dental and/or vision plans will be asked to verify their family members' eligibility.

Applications for the 2012-13 TIE-INS Program are now being accepted through March 30, 2012.   Now in its fourth year, the program enables children of UCLA employees to attend four public schools close to campus.

The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the Board of Regents opens today (Jan. 17), the University of California Office of the President announced.

Chancellor Gene Block clarifies key issues about UCLA’s planned sale of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden. UCLA's priority must be to ensure that it can provide affordable, high-quality education and conduct research in service to the state, the nation and the world.

 

Gary Gates of UCLA's Charles R. Williams Institute says that discrimination against qualified and adoptive and foster parents will hurt the state's most need and vulnerable children. 

Law Professor Adam Winkler writes that the most likely result of Obama focusing on gun control would be, ironically, less gun control.

IoES's Mark Gold says the Beach Act of 2000 gave the EPA a chance improve beach-water quality standards — an opportunity that seems about to be wasted.

By issuing an executive order, President Obama can — and should — make nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity a requirement for doing business with the American public.

Russia's actions, says Political Science Professor Daniel Treisman, seem motivated more by calculated —  albeit sometimes miscalculated — realpolitik than by attempts to assert superpower status. 

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.