By temporarily inactivating a part of the brain involved in impulse control, the researchers discovered compelling evidence that humans are predisposed to be generous to others.

Silva and Tetradis were selected as being among the most promising individuals to become leaders in dental and higher education.

A charge nurse at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Vandegrift oversees an ongoing stream of patients and the doctors and nurses who care for them.

At-risk faculty, staff and students will be invited to participate in a program found effective in preventing type 2 diabetes.

The research provides the first evidence that a mother’s cortisol patterns before conception influence the weight of her baby.

More than 1 in 9 people around the world do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and the problem is expected to worsen due in part to climate change.

A professor of urban planning and Chicana and Chicano studies, Valenzuela has played a leading role in elucidating the phenomenon of day labor.

The honor recognizes the professor of education and Asian American studies for notable and sustained research achievements.

The 1996 film, about the relationship between two women in loveless marriages, spurred intense controversy in India and won honors worldwide.

UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center offers 12 meditations — each from five to 19 minutes long and four of them in Spanish — online and at iTunes.

Beginning March 22, Peter Cowe, the Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies at UCLA, and Movses Pogossian, UCLA professor of violin, will lead a group of graduate students from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music to Armenia.

UCLA’s impressive showing demonstrates its broad academic excellence and reinforces its reputation as one of the country’s finest postsecondary institutions.

CNN’s chief international correspondent, Amanpour has covered major crises and interviewed top leaders around the world for two decades. RSVPs for the lecture are now being accepted.

The UCLA lecturer leads the Vietnamese language program and also prepares immigrant volunteers to teach Vietnamese in their communities.

Psychologist Robert Bjork's intriguing presentation is now available in the Faculty Research Lecture Archives.

Teresa Ibarra and Janice Shintaku were nominated by colleagues for the outstanding service they provide to alumni, donors, faculty, supporters and fellow staff members.

The animals, which are related to spiders and scorpions, “look terrifying, but are actually delicate, timid and afraid of you,” says UCLA doctoral candidate Kenneth Chapin.

The new building material called CO2NCRETE would be made from carbon captured from power plant smokestacks potentially eliminating a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.

The annual award recognizes researchers, innovators and inventors from around the world for their achievements and contributions to science and technology.

Discovery is an important step in the effort to better understand and treat aggressive childhood leukemia.

A member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Hoek did an 'In the Green Room' interview with Zócalo Public Square.

Started by two UCLA dental students, Operation Bruin Smiles helps UCLA's military veterans and former foster youth pay for major dental work.

Shapley, widely considered a father of game theory, was professor emeritus of economics and mathematics and shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

A renowned authority on Egyptian archaeology, Wendrich takes the reins of one of the most important global research centers in archaeology.

Math high school teacher Anthony Yom, who earned two master's degrees from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, urges his students to aim high and to help each other.