Billy Gene Mills, the first Black graduate of the UCLA School of Law, died June 27. He was 96. Mills earned his undergraduate degree from UCLA in 1951 and graduated from the School of Law in 1954. Read more...
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May 19, 6:41 pm
UCLA School of Law student, Fairleigh Dickinson volleyball player dies at 24
This post was updated May 19 at 11:32 p.m. Sina Sinbari, a student at the UCLA School of Law, died April 20. He was 24. Sinbari, a volleyball player who played for the University of Charleston and Fairleigh Dickinson University during his undergraduate years, planned to pursue athletic management after graduation. Read more...
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April 30, 8:33 pm
Alumnus Morton La Kretz leaves legacy of philanthropy, conservation
This post was updated April 30 at 11:28 pm. Morton La Kretz, a UCLA alumnus and environmental philanthropist, died Jan. 31. He was 100. La Kretz funded the 2018 renovation of the La Kretz Botany Building and the construction of La Kretz Hall – UCLA’s first building to receive LEED certification, which recognizes sustainable and cost-effective buildings – in 2005. Read more...
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March 9, 8:28 pm
Remembering Aimée Dorr, former dean of UCLA Ed&IS, UC provost
Aimée Dorr, the former UC provost and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, died Jan. 25. She was 83. Dorr joined the UCLA faculty in 1981 as a professor in the education department who researched the impacts of electronic media on children. Read more...
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March 3, 7:01 pm
UCLA School of Engineering hosts celebration of life in honor of Ioanna Kakoulli
This post was updated March 6 at 12:09 a.m. The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science held a celebration of life Feb. 19 in honor of Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, who died Jan. Read more...
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February 10, 11:45 pm
Materials conservation scholar, engineering professor Ioanna Kakoulli dies at 57
Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, died Jan. 1. She was 57. Kakoulli was the first female professor hired by UCLA’s materials science and engineering department, according to an obituary posted by UCLA Global Antiquity. Read more...
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February 1, 9:25 pm
Pulitzer Prize winner, former chair of UCLA History Daniel Walker Howe dies at 88
Daniel Walker Howe, the former chair of UCLA’s history department and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Dec. 25. He was 88 years old. Howe was a faculty member in UCLA’s history department from 1972 to 1993 and served as the department’s chair from 1983 to 1987. Read more...