Press Releases

UCLA Extension will honor Support and Feed’s Maggie Baird with the Foodmanitarian™ Award and 11-time James Beard Outstanding Restaurateur nominee Sam Fox with the Innovation Award at its 24th Annual Restaurant Executive Conference. The event, which ...

Four original paintings by renowned abstract expressionist Vicci Sperry have been donated to UCLA Extension.

The competition celebrates the life of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for his hit musical, “A Chorus Line.”

UCLA staff and faculty are enhancing their skills, adopting new ones and enriching hobbies through courses and enriching hobbies through courses and certificate programs at UCLA Extension.

With the easing of pandemic restrictions, California communities are again facing familiar challenges - concerns of how to reduce traffic, increase housing, share resources and protect the environment have reappeared on the public stage. On Friday, ...

The program provides communication and teamwork skills training to job-seeking veterans as part of the vocational rehabilitation program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.

A collaboration between UCLA Extension and Google will provide no-cost skills training, professional development and support services for adults from underserved communities.

More than just beauty, the landscape of a neighborhood impacts the wellbeing of a community. And in South Los Angeles, an area lacking shade, and the air- and soil-cleaning properties of plants, a new park is about more than just a place for children ...

LOS ANGELES, CA — In celebration of talented new filmmakers, UCLA Extension hosts its seventh annual UCLAxFilmFest on September 9-12, 2022, a virtual event.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Crypto Artist Lana Denina joins the UCLAxOpen Blockchain Seminar Series for a “live conversation” about her aesthetic and inspiration for art and NFT success in the digital art world, and how blockchain technology made it ...

UCLA Extension is pleased to announce the appointment of Leah J. Vriesman as Associate Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs, effective August 1, 2022.

UCLA Extension has honored 16 instructors for excellence in teaching and service to the division of continuing education at UCLA at a ceremony on May 10th at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.

This March, the virtual Technical Management Program (TMP) hosts its 100th session and celebrates serving over 15,000 technical professionals.

This year’s virtual Tax Controversy Institute on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, presented by UCLA Extension, will offer insights from IRS leadership about priorities and initiatives and guidance and the best practices by top practitioners.

John P. Lyons began his tenure as Associate Dean, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), at UCLA Extension on August 3, 2020.

A team at UCLA is training thousands of individuals across the state in public health techniques and strategies, including contact tracing, case investigation, and administration, in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – UCLA Extension announces a schedule of online and remote learning, no-cost seminars starting on April 27, 2020, as part of “Lighting the Way Forward” open access initiative to support communities impacted by the unprecedented ...

Kate Gordon, Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, is expected to offer insights on land use issues in California during her keynote address at the Annual Land Use Law & Planning Conference

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension expands its programs with an inaugural symposium, The Young and the Reckless: Writing for Teens, on Saturday, August 24, 2019, from 1- 5 pm, at the Gayley Center, Westwood. The symposium ...