Jim Newton on how the well-intentioned California Environmental Quality Review Act can be misused, stifling economic development and, ironically enough, harming the environment.

To UCLA visual artist Casey Reas, writing computer code and programming are not so much technical skills as “thinking” skills that he has managed to apply to artistic expression to great effect.

Jenessa Shapiro, associate professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was recently named one of 2016’s "Best 40 Under 40 Professors" by Poets and Quants, a news website devoted to the coverage of business schools and MBA programs.

Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2016 distinguished lecturer by by the IEEE Photonics Society.

If you’ve ever contemplated becoming a vegetarian, check out how eating a plant-based diet isn’t just good for your health. It happens to also be good for the Earth’s health.

The Academic Senate and its Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity announced Thursday the recipients of the 2015-2016 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awards.

A recent UCLA book drive motivated students, faculty and staff to collect or donate more than 1,500 books for the library of a state women's prison in Southern California.  

The Bruins have returned to the field to kick off four weeks of spring practice, and their annual spring showcase, presented by Toyota, will cap off the spring football season on Saturday.

Yang Yang, holder of the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Chair in Engineering at UCLA, received an achievement award from the Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of California.

Architecture and urban design lecturer Jimenez Lai’s “The Tower of Twelve Stories” is the biggest art installation ever at the annual music and arts festival.

An earlier study had suggested that a class of drugs called anthracyclines might increase the risk for neuropsychological issues and cognitive difficulties.

UCLA biologists write that the findings should help guide how endangered species are treated.

The researchers discovered good news as well: An omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid seems to reverse the harmful changes.

Members of the academy include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers and artists.

The campus community gathered Wednesday for an evening devoted primarily to sleep and heard sound advice about how to wake up refreshed and rejuvenated from a panel of experts.

Students are taught about extinction in classrooms, but it’s their direct experience with nature that is rapidly disappearing, warns Peter Kareiva, director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Los Angeles music attorney Dina LaPolt represents recording artists, songwriters, producers, musicians, authors and writers, and teaches a UCLA Extension class, “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Music Business.”

The second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembrance Day at UCLA will showcase King’s efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion and explore the role of athletes as activists.

About 25 undergraduates and graduate students had an unprecedented opportunity to meet with United States National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

With Blue Shield of California’s rate guarantees expiring, UC has selected Anthem to replace Blue Shield as the claims administrator and network provider for four UC health care plans.

Fidelity Charitable, an independent public charity with one of the nation's largest donor-advised fund programs, announced that Alfred E. Osborne Jr. has been elected chair of its Board of Trustees.

Prescribing antibiotics to patients who don’t need them can create problems so how do we get doctors to change their behaviors? Start by remembering that doctors are human, so not always perfectly rational.

L.A.’s only species of newt is showing signs of severe distress, troubling researchers and raising questions about the impacts of the drought and climate change.

Alison Wu, a graduate student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was last seen by her roommate April 10.

Professor Emeritus Dean Stoddard Worth died after a long illness on Feb. 29 at the age of 88 in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He retired from UCLA in 1994 after 37 years as a professor of Slavic languages.