Making UCLA the healthiest campus in America. Envisioned and Supported by Jane and Terry Semel.
Making UCLA the healthiest campus in America by connecting the activities and groups that already make UCLA a healthy campus, creating new programs, and putting all of it at the fingertips of everyone who studies or works here!
06/18/2025
Join us this weekend at The Broad to view Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition: the space in which to place me on June 21st from 3-4:30pm.
Gibson is an American artist whose work powerfully highlights and encompasses Indigenous traditions, American culture, and LGBTQ+ communities in his visually stunning art.
Please RSVP at the link in our bio, we hope to see you there!
05/19/2025
Join other UCLA managers and supervisors in conversation, connection, and community over lunch at the Dining Hall Bruin Plate on June 3, 12-1pm. This event is hosted by the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center. If you are available and interested, please RSVP at the link in our bio. Space is limited and first come, first serve. We hope to see you there!
05/12/2025
Grateful for the chance to connect with newly-admitted transfer students at Transfer Bruin Day — welcome to UCLA! 💙🐻
04/23/2025
Do you have a cultural recipe you want to share? The EatWell Pod is seeking three UCLA student chefs to submit cultural recipes and be featured at the annual Semel HCI Center Celebration on May 14, 2025! The student chefs will also receive $200 on their Bruincard. Submissions are due by 12pm on Friday, April 25 at tinyurl.com/EatWellRecipes2025. We look forward to reading your recipes!
04/09/2025
The Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA & the MindWell team invites you to our annual Eudaimonia Awards 2025 Ceremony!
📆 Date: Thursday, April 10
⏰ Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm (Reception starts at 4:30pm; Program starts at 5pm)
📍 Location: UCLA’s Semel Institute, B-floor Deck, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Youlonda Copeland-Morgan is a nationally recognized leader in higher education and President and CEO of The CopelandMorgan Group, LLC. Copeland-Morgan’s 44-year career is a testament to her lifelong commitment to access, equity, diversity, and inclusion in K-12 and higher education. She has been honored by the United States Congress, the California State Legislature, and the City of Los Angeles.
Food and refreshments will be served! The registration link is in our bio.
04/09/2025
🔊 Do you have a cultural recipe you’re proud of? The EatWell Pod is seeking three UCLA
student chefs to submit cultural recipes and participate in a live demo with the UCLA
Teaching Kitchen for the annual Semel HCI Celebration on May 14, 2025 from 3:30-7pm!
✅ Recipes must be achievable within an hour, use basic kitchen equipment, use stovetopcooking methods, and uses minimal space. Your dish will also be featured in the event’s catering order, offering attendees a taste of your creation!
🍴Submissions for recipes are due by 5pm on Friday, April 11 at
tinyurl.com/EatWellRecipes2025. Please email any questions towards [email protected]. We look forward to reading your recipes!
04/02/2025
Inspired by the success of the Semel HCI Center, the University of California (UC) Healthy Campus Network (HCN) is a robust network of diverse coalitions across 10 UC campuses, 5 UC teaching hospitals, and UC Agriculture & Natural Resources working to promote individual campus and systemwide changes toward a culture of health and equity.
Click the link in our bio to read more about lessons learned from the UC HCN and pandemic!
03/20/2025
Join us for a virtual Well-Being Community Forum, “Fostering Community in the Workplace”, presented by the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center and Staff Assembly!
Topics covered will include effective communication across teams, skills for managing hybrid teams, the value of kindness and compassion in the workplace, and cultivating enduring workplace relationships.
The link to register is in our bio!
03/18/2025
Join other UCLA managers and supervisors in conversation, connection, and community over lunch at the Dining Hall Bruin Plate on April 10, 12-1pm. This event is hosted by the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center. If you are available and interested, please RSVP at the link in our bio. Space is limited and first come, first serve. We hope to see you there!
03/11/2025
📣🚨Semel HCI Center is hiring for a student media assistant! If you are a current undergraduate student, apply to join our team.
Check out our 🤝 handshake post to learn more about the job qualifications and responsibilities. The deadline to submit an application is Friday, March 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM. 🤍
03/08/2025
Learn more about the food system on a farm… at the Anne Saxelby Farming Internship Virtual Office Hours! 🐄
📆 Date: Monday, March 10
📍Location: On ZOOM
Please find the link to RSVP for virtual office hours at the link in our bio!
03/01/2025
Please join Dr. Melissa Brymer and the MindWell Pod to learn about and discuss how to support your community during a crisis. Light refreshments will be available starting at 12:45 am!
Melissa Brymer, Ph.D., Psy.D. is the Director of Terrorism and Disaster Programs of the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. Dr. Brymer has been involved with the development of acute interventions, assessment, and educational materials in the area of terrorism, disasters, and school crises.
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Send a message to Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA:
Healthy living is a choice and a lifestyle, but unless you’re in a supportive environment, it can be challenging. In 2013, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block announced the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) Center, a vision of Jane and Terry Semel and supported by them. Originating at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Semel HCI Center is fostering a culture of physical, emotional, and social well-being.
VISION
To make the UCLA the healthiest place to work, learn, and live and to inspire other communities both locally and beyond.
MISSION
Semel HCI Center aims to make the healthy choice the easy choice for the more than 85,000 students, faculty, staff, and visitors at UCLA.
STRATEGY
Semel HCI Center acts as a sparkplug and home for health-related innovation on campus, helping bridge diverse departments and stakeholders and leverage the strengths of individuals and institutions on and off campus. It’s seven thematic subcommittees work to create academic, experiential, and structural approaches to living well through curricula, programming, communication and branding, research, operations, and service. The initiative draws on UCLA’s world-renowned research and teaching to find new and innovative ways to promote living well on campus, and to share that work with other communities.