On June 27, 2024, Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael J. Beck, Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger M. Wakimoto, and Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer Lucy Avetisyan, announced permanent storage quotas to UCLA Google personal accounts and shared drives.
Announcements
On May 23, 2024, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt, Dean of Undergraduate Education Adriana Galván, Dean of Graduate Education Susan L. Ettner, and Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities jointly announced that academic appointees represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811 intended to begin a strike on May 28 at UCLA.
On April 19, 2024, the Office of Research & Creative Activities (ORCA) hosted the 136th Faculty Research Lecture at Schoenberg Hall. Nominated and selected by peers, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Human Genetics Daniel Geschwind discussed progress in understanding the causes of complex brain disorders.
On April 10, 2024, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt and Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger M. Wakimoto, jointly announced UCLA’s continued support for scholarly exchanges and collaborative research with foreign institutions, while noting concerns about foreign influence and research security.
On March 22, 2024, The University of California Office of the President invited comments on a proposed Presidential Policy BFB-BUS-50: Controlled Substances Use in Research and Teaching (PDF)
On March 7, 2024, the Office of Research & Creative Activities (ORCA) hosted the 135th Faculty Research Lecture at Schoenberg Hall.
In a joint announcement Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck and Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA) Roger Wakimoto, shared with the Bruin Community that Google will end unlimited storage for Google Workspace for Education (GWE) on the 1st of November 2024.
On January 25, 2024, Executive Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt announced the appointment of Athena N. Jackson as the Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian at UCLA, effective from March 1, 2024.
On January 19, 2024, the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA) Roger Wakimoto and Senior Director for the Office of Human Research Protection Kristin Rochford, jointly announced that effective January 25, 2024, all new FDA-regulated, Industry-sponsored, multi-site research conducted at UCLA will require to use a single IRB.
On January 12, 2024, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Virginia Steel announced UCLA Library’s Winter Digital Technologies Workshops.