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The UCLA Staff Assembly will offer an award of up to $500 for career enhancement and professional growth.

UCLA January 27, 2021 The Asian Pacific Islander Faculty Staff Association will host a Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 11, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., via Zoom. The event will feature members of the UCLA Association of Chinese Americans’ lion dance team, who will discuss the origins of the dance and the different components of the lion costume. There will also be a panel discussion of Lunar New Year traditions and customs, hosted by Walen Ngo, a former Staff Assembly president, as well as a demonstration by the UCLA Teaching Kitchen on how to make dumplings.

Annette Buhl UCLA Newsroom | Share Looking back on 2020, UCLA reached the highest of highs — astrophysicist Andrea Ghez became a Nobel laureate for her discovery of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And of course we dealt with the hardest of challenges — the pandemic. Meanwhile, professors carried on with their research, students kept doing the amazing and UCLA charted a bold new course for its athletic department while saying goodbye to one of the greatest of Bruin athletes. Add to the mix a presidential election and a reckoning with racial inequality th...