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How UCLA Health’s Pride Network empowers LGBTQ+ employees and patients

UCLA Health staff participate in community-centered events to celebrate PRIDE and promote LGBTQ+ health and wellness. (Photo by Nick Carranza/UCLA Health)
June 4, 2024
UCLA Health’s LGBTQ+ employee group creates workplaces and clinics that welcome people of all genders and sexual orientations.

UC nurses are working to change health policy

June 4, 2024
University of California nurses are using their specialized knowledge to advocate for patient rights in the state and federal legislatures.

DAISY Awards honor exemplary nurses at UC Irvine Health

UCI Health cardiovascular intensive care unit team
June 4, 2024
Nurses chosen for the honor serve as role models and display empathy, connection and interpersonal skills.

UC People: Luz Venegas, champion of gender-expansive perspectives

UCSF Research Analyst Luz Venegas
June 4, 2024
UCSF Research Analyst Luz Venegas shares why respecting gender identity is critical to reducing health care disparities.

UC Irvine Health announces winners of Nursing Excellence Awards

Celebrants at the annual Nursing Excellence Awards, which take place during Nurses Week each year.
May 28, 2024
Held during Nurse’s Week in May, the event celebrated nurse leaders, early career nurses and friends of nurses.

Cheryl Love wins national diversity award

May 25, 2024
Cheryl A. Love, Ph.D., arts, humanities, education and public policy career specialist at UC Riverside, has received the 2024 Diversity Initiative Award from the National Career Development Association.

Healthy minds: UC staff who support mental wellness

Emily Giovanelli sitting on a rock
May 20, 2024
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month! To celebrate, we asked staff throughout UC to share how they support mental health — at work and outside of it.

UC Spotlight: May 2024

Winners of the UC Santa Barbara 2024 Staff Citation of Excellence Awards pose with Chancellor Harry T. Yang and Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services Garry Mac Pherson.
May 17, 2024
UC Spotlight is a new UCnetwork feature that celebrates UC locations, teams and individual staff members who are helping to make UC a great place to work.

Honoring student diversity at UCSF

Graduates from UCSF’s professional schools and Graduate Division
May 13, 2024
For the new alumni recently honored at UCSF, graduation is an opportunity to represent and serve traditionally marginalized groups of people.

UC People: Kaya Mentesoglu

Kaya Mentesoglu
May 13, 2024
For more than two decades, Kaya Mentesoglu has served UCLA’s International Institute with key IT technology support.