Educational
Friday May 5/9
Civic Connections: Understanding Our Elected Officials
Fri 5/9 • 11AM - 1PM PDT RSVP
Pauley Pavilion - Pavilion Club
This event will feature a panel discussion followed by a Q&A with various local elected officials and their offices. The goal is to build stronger connections between the UCLA community and its elected representatives, while also educating students...
Online Mindful Writing Retreat (3rd of 4 Sessions)
Fri 5/9 • 1:30PM - 4PM PDT RSVP
The mindful writing retreat will integrate simple techniques from mindfulness to support the writing process and cultivate an approach to writing that fosters balance, self-care, and well-being. Please bring a current writing project because much of...
UCLA Quantum Computing Student Association EntangleTalks LA
Fri 5/9 • 4PM - 6PM PDT RSVP
3312 Murphy Hall, DataX Impact Forum
This spring, UCLA’s QCSA and Caltech’s IQIM launched a new monthly collaboration: EntangleTalks LA! As Los Angeles becomes a global quantum hub, make sure to stay well connected - and well nourished. After a spotlight research talk enjoy a casual...
Bruin Day • Saturday May 5/10
AlgoEd x UCLA Global Medical Brigades Science/Medical Competition
Sat 5/10 • 8AM PDT
UCLA's Global Medical Brigades chapter has teamed up with AlgoEd, a company that provides platforms for middle school and high school students to participate in large-scale competitions. This event will include medical and science related questions...
Bruin Day - USP presentation
Sat 5/10 • 12PM - 12:30PM PDT
Visit the Student Activities Center, Room B44
Admitted Transfers, we can't wait to meet you at Bruin Day! Find out everything you need to know about life at UCLA as an UndocuBruin. Presentation: 12:00pm - 12:30pm ...
Monday May 5/12
CAE Housing Accommodation Drop-In
Mon 5/12 • 11AM - 12PM PDT
During this drop-in, CAE Housing Accommodations staff are happy to meet with students to answer any questions or concerns you may have about accommodated housing at UCLA.
Tuesday May 5/13
CAE Disability Specialist Check-In with Tucker Grimshaw
Tue 5/13 • 9AM - 10AM PDT
During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To...
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10 + 10 Pop-Up Series: Explore the AI Toolkit for the Humanities Classroom
Tue 5/13 • 10AM - 10:20AM PDT RSVP
Title: Explore the AI Toolkit for the Humanities Classroom #ai-tool-kit #ai-best-practices #ai-based-activities Description: Humanities Technology (HumTech)--HumTech is developing an AI Toolkit in collaboration with their graduate student RITC's,...
Power and Alterity in Black Religious Thought
Tue 5/13 • 12:30PM - 1:30PM PDT RSVP
Kaplan Hall, 365
Who is the human? What is legitimate religion? Who is left out of these discourses? Questions of power, humanity, and alterity animate religious discourse and responses to oppression. Leveraging the Rastafari movement and interrogating religious...
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Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust
Tue 5/13 • 2PM - 3:30PM PDT RSVP
314 Royce Hall
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jews and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable...
Getting into Research & SRP-99 Workshop
Tue 5/13 • 3PM - 4PM PDT RSVP
This workshop introduces students to research in the sciences, how to find a faculty research mentor, and opportunities for student researchers after joining a lab. Download a copy of our slide deck and learn more about our workshops on our website.
DataX Undergraduate Research Week Presentation Practice & Feedback
Tue 5/13 • 4PM - 6PM PDT RSVP
3312 Murphy Hall, DataX Impact Forum
Looking for an opportunity to polish your URW presentation? Join us for a DataX Presentation Feedback Session! This is a great chance to dry run your presentation before the official showcase and get helpful, constructive feedback from fellow...
Wednesday May 5/14
CPT Webinars (for F-1 Visa Students)
Wed 5/14 • 10AM - 11AM PDT
UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly CPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more!
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Educational Innovation and Scholarly Teaching Seminar Series: Making the Most of Active Learning
Wed 5/14 • 10AM - 11AM PDT RSVP
Young Research Library Conference Room 11360
Making the Most of Active Learning: Why Teaching Expertise Matters and How it Develops This interactive seminar will consider this question: What teaching expertise do faculty need and how do they cultivate it? Though most systems in higher...
Website Makers Meetup
Wed 5/14 • 11AM - 12PM PDT
These meetups are for people who make websites. Join us every other week, on Wednesday at 11am, to ask any questions you may have about making websites at UCLA.
Book Talk: Ines Valdez Presents "Democracy and Empire"
Wed 5/14 • 11AM - 1PM PDT
CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall
Please join us when Inés Valdez, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, presents her book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This event is cosponsored by...
The Grey Area: Exploring Grey Literature
Wed 5/14 • 1PM - 2PM PDT RSVP
Grey Literature is frequently defined by what it is not – “grey literature is anything that is not a journal and not a book.” That leaves a great deal of room for ambiguity when looking for grey literature sources. Do I need to check government...
Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community
Wed 5/14 • 4PM - 6PM PDT
Charles E. Young Research Library, Level A, Distinctive Collections Classroom
Professor William Gow (CSU Sacramento) will have a discussion with filmmaker and professor Renee Tajima-Peña about his new book, Performing Chinatown (Stanford University Press, 2024), which “retells the long-overlooked history of the ways that Los...
50 Years after the War: A Journey toward Peace
Wed 5/14 • 4:30PM - 6PM PDT RSVP
10383 Bunche Hall
In her conversation with George Dutton, professor in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Quê Mai will share the moments that defined her as a writer, what compelled her to document the impact of the war, how she found healing via...
A Decent Home Documentary Screening+ Q&A
Wed 5/14 • 6PM - 8:30PM PDT RSVP
2355 Public Affairs Building
The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and Luskin Center for Innovation invite you to a screening of A Decent Home, a featurelength documentary addressing class and economic inequity that features the lives and challenges of mobile home...
Thursday May 5/15
Symposium: UCLA Latino Policy Day
Thu 5/15 • 12PM - 5:30PM PDT RSVP
Hershey Hall, Hershey Salon
Please join us at the inaugural Latino Policy Day! This event will introduce the UCLA community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni) to groundbreaking work that the Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) has supported in the areas of housing...
Expanding Your Audience: How to Publish Outside Academia
Thu 5/15 • 4PM - 5:30PM PDT RSVP
Where can your writing and research interests go beyond a field-specific journal article or academic conference presentation? Writing for non-academic publications offers graduate students the opportunity to flex their creative muscles and develop a...
Spring 2025 GET HIRED UCLA: Senior & Master's Student In-Person Job Fair
Thu 5/15 • 4PM - 7PM PDT RSVP
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Are you a Senior & Still looking for Employment? Are you a Master's Student about to graduate looking for career opportunities? Then this is the Career Event for you! The UCLA Career Center is proud to present the Spring 2025 GET HIRED UCLA:...
Friday May 5/16
Energy Transitions in Long Modernity (Day 2)
Fri 5/16 • 9AM - 11:10AM PDT
This conference will be held via Zoom. Please visit our website for the list of speakers, program schedule and to register. Organized by Robert N. Watson (University of California, Los Angeles), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis),...
CAE Disability Specialist Check-In with Betteena Marco
Fri 5/16 • 10AM - 11AM PDT
During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To...
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Online Mindful Writing Retreat Sessions (4th of 4 Sessions)
Fri 5/16 • 1:30PM - 4PM PDT RSVP
The mindful writing retreat will integrate simple techniques from mindfulness to support the writing process and cultivate an approach to writing that fosters balance, self-care, and well-being. Please bring a current writing project because much of...
Sunday May 5/18
PLAY Day 2025
Sun 5/18 • 9AM - 2PM PDT
Intramural Fields
For our 28th year, Bruin Belles Service Association is proud to present Players Leading Active Youth Day, also known as P.L.A.Y. Day. This event will bring together UCLA Athletics and Bruin Belles for a day of learning and fun with underserved,...
Monday May 5/19
UCLA Los Angeles Transportation Forum
Mon 5/19 • 9AM - 4PM PDT RSVP
The California Endowment
At the October 2024 UCLA Arrowhead Symposium, participants discussed how to create enduring public benefits from hosting major worldwide events in Los Angeles. The UCLA Los Angeles Transportation Forum will gather attendees to continue the...
CAE Housing Accommodation Drop-In
Mon 5/19 • 11AM - 12PM PDT
During this drop-in, CAE Housing Accommodations staff are happy to meet with students to answer any questions or concerns you may have about accommodated housing at UCLA.
Tuesday May 5/20
10 + 10 Pop-Up Series: How to Compare and Evaluate AI Tools
Tue 5/20 • 10AM - 10:20AM PDT RSVP
Title: How to Compare and Evaluate AI Tools #GenAI #pick-your-innovation #diffusion-of-innovation #enhancing-teaching-and-learning Description: Choosing the right AI tool can be a real challenge. This short presentation provides a practical...
Empowered Teaching: Ungrading 101 Workshop
Tue 5/20 • 12PM - 1PM PDT RSVP
Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL), Room 21570
Please join us for the "Empowered Teaching: Ungrading 101” workshop, hosted by the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) and facilitated by Caroline Kong and Sammy Solis. In this workshop, participants will explore “ungrading,” a framework that...
Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems
Tue 5/20 • 1PM - 2:30PM PDT RSVP
Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)
Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences What explains the contents of political belief systems? A widespread view is that they derive from abstract values like...
Wednesday May 5/21
Assignments and Grading with Bruin Learn for TAs
Wed 5/21 • 12PM - 1PM PDT RSVP
Enhance your teaching skills and streamline your grading in Bruin Learn! This session is designed primarily for TAs and will cover creating and grading assignments and discussions, navigating the Gradebook, and providing student extensions and...
Meet the Leaders: Lucy Avetisyan
Wed 5/21 • 12PM - 1PM PDT RSVP
We invite you to join Staff Assembly on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm, for our virtual event, Meet the Leaders Series! We will host a Zoom discussion with Lucy Avetisyan, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer (CIO)...
From ADS to SciX: An Intro to Navigating Science Explorer for Earth and Space Science Research
Wed 5/21 • 1PM - 2PM PDT RSVP
For years, the Astrophysics Data System has served researchers in the fields of astronomy and physics. Recognizing the value of this portal, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and NASA have developed SciX (Science Explorer) as the future...
CAE Disability Specialist Check-In with Jamie Lerner-Brecher
Wed 5/21 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To...
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OPT Webinars (for F-1 Visa Students)
Wed 5/21 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly OPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more!
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Dissertation 101
Wed 5/21 • 5:15PM - 6:30PM PDT RSVP
Presenter: Marilyn Gray, Director, Graduate Writing Center This workshop will give an overview of the dissertation requirement in terms of structure, process, and role in one's career trajectory. The workshop will address the dissertation from...
Thursday May 5/22
ID Spring Showcase #2: Scaffolding Research & Writing with Interactive Library Resources
Thu 5/22 • 10AM - 11AM PDT RSVP
Join us to explore the topic: Scaffolding Research and Writing with Interactive Library Resources Description: Members of UCLA Library’s Writing Instruction and Research Education (WI+RE) team will introduce the audiences to short, interactive...
DataX-QCBio Symposium: AI to Advance Biology
Thu 5/22 • 10AM - 3:30PM PDT RSVP
3312 Murphy Hall, DataX Impact Forum
You’re invited to the AI to Advance Biology Symposium, a new collaboration between DataX and the UCLA Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences (QCBio). Themes include: -AI for understanding gene expression and ‘omic data -AI for...
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Equip Your AI Toolkit with HumTech
Thu 5/22 • 12PM - 1PM PDT RSVP
Humanities Technology (HumTech)--HumTech is developing an AI Toolkit in collaboration with their graduate student RITC's, Research and Instructional Technology Consultants who provide both instructional and research support. Join this workshop to...
Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art
Thu 5/22 • 4PM - 5:30PM PDT RSVP
Charles E. Young Research Library Distinctive Collections Classroom
Speaker: Dr. Matt Lodder This program is offered as part of the Michael and Susan Kahn Political Cartoon Collection Lecture Series. The event will be held in the Charles E. Young Research Library Distinctive Collections Classroom and also...
Getting Started on the Dissertation (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Related Fields)
Thu 5/22 • 5:15PM - 6:30PM PDT RSVP
Presenter: Marilyn Gray, Director, Graduate Writing Center. This workshop gives an overview of organization, time management, writing process issues and writing strategies. Recommended for people in the early stages of the dissertation, but useful...
Friday May 5/23
Symposium: Women and Goddesses in Jainism
Fri 5/23 • 2PM - 5PM PDT RSVP
Hershey Hall Salon
Throughout the history of Jainism, one of the world’s oldest living religions, Jain women have played a crucial role. Jain renouncers, whose self-denying lifestyle is revered as the highest ideal, are predominantly female, while Jain laywomen tend...
Saturday May 5/24
Celebration of Life for K.W. Lee
Sat 5/24 • 2PM - 5PM PDT RSVP
Oxford Palace Hotel, 745 South Oxford Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90005
Considered the godfather of Asian American journalism, K.W. (short for Kyung Won) Lee's illustrious career as the first Korean American journalist has profoundly shaped the Korean American community consciousness and activism. K.W. Lee's family has...
Tuesday May 5/27
Food Studies Resources at the UCLA Library and Beyond
Tue 5/27 • 1PM - 2PM PDT RSVP
Food studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that examines the cultural, economic, political and environmental dimensions of food. Research resources in food studies are equally broad, and can present a challenge for beginner researchers and...
Digital Accessibility Drop In Hours
Tue 5/27 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
Need help making your course materials digitally accessible? Join TLC experts during our open drop-in hour to get your questions answered and receive direct support with accessible documents, accommodations, course content, and Bruin Learn tools....
Crossroads of Cultures: The Jezreel Valley in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Tue 5/27 • 2PM - 3:30PM PDT RSVP
314 Royce Hall
The Jezreel Valley is Israel’s largest and most fertile valley. Strategically located in Northern Israel, this region played a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and economic developments of major political entities during the second and first...
Wednesday May 5/28
Comics and Conquest: Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo- Hopi Land Dispute
Wed 5/28
Dr. Rhiannon Koehler’s book Comics and Conquest interprets editorial cartoons from the Navajo Times and the Hopi Newspaper Qua’Töqti, to reframe and decolonize historical understandings of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute, placing Native American people...
CPT Webinars (for F-1 Visa Students)
Wed 5/28 • 10AM - 11AM PDT
UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly CPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more!
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Earth and Exchange: Tapia and the Construction of Early Modern Iberia
Wed 5/28 • 11AM - 12PM PDT RSVP
In this presentation, UCLA doctoral candidate Rachel Schloss analyzes the social, cultural, and technological history of tapia, a system of rammed-earth building utilized on the Iberian Peninsula from the 11th to 17th centuries CE, from which...
Intro to Technical Reports
Wed 5/28 • 1PM - 2PM PDT RSVP
Ever been curious about what technical reports are? Or how to find them? In this workshop you'll gain an introductory overview to technical reports, as well as guidance on how to locate them. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're...
Thursday May 5/29
2025 BruinTech Spring Conference
Thu 5/29 • 8AM - 4PM PDT RSVP
314 Royce Hall
Attention UCLA IT Professionals—whether you support infrastructure, build applications, manage instructional tech, or assist users across campus, you’re invited to this year’s BruinTech Spring Conference, centered on the theme: “Becoming a More...
Bring Your Own Syllabus: Co-Working and Consultation Session
Thu 5/29 • 1PM - 3PM PDT RSVP
Powell Library, Room 190
Please join us for the "Bring Your Own Syllabus: Co-Working and Consultation Session," hosted by the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) and facilitated by Sammy Solis. Are you looking to refresh, rewrite, or rethink your syllabus? Are you...
Getting into Research & SRP-99 Workshop
Thu 5/29 • 3PM - 4PM PDT RSVP
This workshop introduces students to research in the sciences, how to find a faculty research mentor, and opportunities for student researchers after joining a lab. Download a copy of our slide deck and learn more about our workshops on our website.
David Nishida and Tina Yamano Nishida Distinguished Lecture and Panel
Thu 5/29 • 5PM - 7PM PDT
Fowler Museum
Main Speaker: Helen Zia, writer and activist. An outspoken leader about human rights across race, gender, orientation, and other identifiers. In conversation with Julie Ha, Journalist/Documentary Filmmaker, and Amber Phung, Pacific Ties Newsmagazine.
Telling Your New American Story: Applying to the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Thu 5/29 • 6PM - 7PM PDT RSVP
This workshop will provide guidance on preparing a competitive application for the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (https://www.pdsoros.org/), which provides up to $90K in support for graduate students from migrant backgrounds....
Saturday May 5/31
Clark Library Nature and Garden Festival
Sat 5/31 • 11AM - 2PM PDT
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial LIbrary
The Clark Library preserves and provides access to books, manuscripts, and artworks dating from the 15th century to the present. But there is a library of living things on the Clark’s five acre property, too. This event celebrates the urban nature...
Monday June 6/2
CAE Housing Accommodation Drop-In
Mon 6/2 • 11AM - 12PM PDT
During this drop-in, CAE Housing Accommodations staff are happy to meet with students to answer any questions or concerns you may have about accommodated housing at UCLA.
Tuesday June 6/3
TA and Postdoc Drop In Hours - Social Grading Edition!
Tue 6/3 • 9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT
Join us on Zoom for TA and postdoc drop-in hours, social grading edition! Build community with your fellow TAs and gain some accountability while you work through your end of quarter grading. TLC staff members from the Graduate Student and...
CAE Disability Specialist Check-In with Daniela Cruz-Gomez
Tue 6/3 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To...
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FAB - Scholarships and Financial Aid Workshop
Tue 6/3 • 6PM - 7PM PDT
De Neve Plaza Rooms
Join the Out-of-State Student Association and Scholarship and Financial Aid Office to learn about opportunities and steps you can take to apply for scholarships and financial aid.
Some Favorite Writers: James Lasdun
Tue 6/3 • 7:30PM PDT
hammer museum
James Lasdun has written several books of fiction, memoir and poetry. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta and the London Review of Books. His most recent book is the novel Afternoon of a Faun. Lasdun will read from his...
Wednesday June 6/4
CAE Disability Specialist Check-In
Wed 6/4 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To...
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Thursday June 6/5
CAE Disability Specialist Check-In with Kristen Acosta
Thu 6/5 • 10AM - 11AM PDT
During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To...
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DARS Orientation
Thu 6/5 • 10AM - 12PM PDT
Online - by invitation only
SAIT will be conducting a DARS Orientation session to foster understanding of how DARS works and how to navigate the system. This would be an ideal training for anyone that uses the system and has not yet attended an orientation session
Tuesday June 6/10
DARS Exceptions Training
Tue 6/10 • 1PM - 3PM PDT
Online - by invitation only
SAIT will be conducting a DARS Exceptions training session for anyone that makes exceptions and has not yet attended a training session.
Wednesday June 6/11
From Practice to Policy: Scalable Approaches that Promote Undergraduate Success at the UC
Wed 6/11 • 10AM - 11AM PDT RSVP
The academic experiences of first-year undergraduate students significantly influence their academic paths and retention at universities. This seminar showcases two approaches developed and implemented at the University of California (UC) that aim...
Thursday June 6/12
TA and Postdoc Drop In Hours - Social Grading Edition!
Thu 6/12 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
Powell 190
Join us in Powel Library 190 for TA and postdoc drop-in hours, social grading edition! Work through your end of quarter grading while enjoying refreshments and building community with your fellow TAs. TLC staff members from the Graduate Student and...
Monday June 6/16
Digital Accessibility Drop In Hours
Mon 6/16 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
Need help making your course materials digitally accessible? Join TLC experts during our open drop-in hour to get your questions answered and receive direct support with accessible documents, accommodations, course content, and Bruin Learn tools....