On October 31, 2025, UCLA Professor Peter Lunenfeld presented his lecture "Future Street: Los Angeles in the Era of Artificial Intelligence." In this talk, Peter Lunenfeld, a media theorist turned urban storyteller, weaved his research on the cultural impact of artificial intelligence into a connectionist narrative about LA's beguiling complexities.

Read more about Professor Lunenfeld's lecture by visiting the UCLA Newsroom site.

On September 24, 2025, Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger M. Wakimoto announced the 2025-2026 UCLA Faculty Research Lectures.

On June 6, 2025, UCLA Professor Michael E. Jung gave his Faculty Research Lecture titled Drug Discovery in Academia: Some Success Stories.

On April 11, 2025, UCLA Professor Raymond Knapp delivered his Faculty Research Lecture and discussed how music and musicology work together to revive the past using Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration as an example.

Join us for a distinguished lecture with 3M Corporate Scientist and Chief Science Advocate Jayshree Seth who will share her personal journey, as explored in her new book, Engineering Blueprint.

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt invites the Bruin Community to a virtual townhall this Thursday, February 27, 2025 from 1-2 p.m.  

Faculty interested in hearing and engaging with leaders from NIH, NSF, the Department of Energy, and major philanthropies should attend this systemwide gathering. This event will foster cross-campus conversation and collaboration on research at UC and beyond.

On October 11, 2024, the Office of Research & Creative Activities (ORCA) hosted the 137th Faculty Research Lecture at Schoenberg Hall.

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) is an immersive training program that facilitates the transformation of innovation to impact.

On April 2, 2024, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Athena N. Jackson announced UCLA Library’s Spring Quarter Workshops. Presented with the Office of Advanced Research Computing, these workshops cover digital technologies as well as foundational research workshops.

The Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative and AI (link is external) at UCLA presents:

"Can Humans Think? Philosophy, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Humanities" with Special Guests, Matthew Jones and Chris Wiggins, Authors of “How Data Happened” (W.W. Norton, 2023).

In the upcoming year, UCLA Technology Development Group will be hosting the 12th Annual UCLA MedTech Partnering Conference and the Los Angeles Bioscience Ecosystem Summit Twenty24 (LABEST).

On June 2, 2023 UCLA celebrated the recipients of the Public Impact Research Awards at a reception.  These awards were created by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA) and the Centennial Celebration for UCLA during UCLA's 100th year anniversary to recognize faculty whose research or other creative work has benefitted the public.