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Sept. 2, 2026 3:47 p.m.
The Mills family is pictured. Billy Gene Mills died June 27 at 96. (Courtesy of Flossie Burnley)
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.
By Nataly Rezk
Campus
May 19, 2026 6:41 p.m.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.
By Sophia Pu
Academics
March 9, 2026 8:28 p.m.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.
By Zachery Chagoya
News
March 3, 2026 7:01 p.m.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.
By Kyan Wang
Campus
Feb. 10, 2026 11:45 p.m.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.
By Alisha Hassanali
Academics
Feb. 1, 2026 9:25 p.m.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.
By Zachary Turcios
A Closer Look
Oct. 30, 2025 11:46 p.m.Former UCLA Labor Center director, workers’ rights advocate Kent Wong dies at 69
Kent Wong, the former director of the UCLA Labor Center and an advocate for workers’ rights, died Oct. 8. He was 69 years old.
Wong was the director of the UCLA Labor Center from 1991 to 2023, during which he oversaw the 2021 development of its new MacArthur Park headquarters, said Toby Higbie, a professor of history and labor studies.
By Izzy Greig
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