Héctor Calderón, professor of Spanish American, Mexican, and Chicano literature and cultures, was named chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Brad Shaffer, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the 2015 recipient of the Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology.

Immerse yourself in Afghan culture and cuisine during the UCLA Hammer Museum's 'Conflict Kitchen and Afghan Cuisine,' Wednesday, Aug. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Billy Wilder Theater.

The money will fund a new collaboration among primary care clinics, community-based organizations and educational institutions throughout Riverside County.

UCLA's Charles Corbett, professor of operations management and sustainability, has been named the IBM Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Fuel cells and hydrogen batteries are already important sources of green energy, but further advances will require scientists and engineers to better understand how the technologies work.

Patients of UCLA’s kidney transplant program — already the best of the nation’s largest programs in terms of survival rates — will find comfort and convenience in a state-of-the-art new home thanks to the generosity of philanthropist Connie Frank.

The MedDreamers fundraiser on Aug. 16 supports scholarships for undocumented students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The findings offer a rare glimpse into how individual brain cells in the sleeping mind work.

Window washers dressed as Batman, Captain America, Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wonder Woman entertained and posed for photos with young patients and their families at the third annual Superhero Day at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA.

Thousands of UCLA staff members got 'thanks!' from campus leaders at the 11th annual All-Staff Picnic.

On the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots, historian Robin D.G. Kelley writes in the L.A. Times that the era gave birth to social justice and arts organizations that remade the community and whose legacy continues today.

A film of 'Twilight: Los Angeles,' the acclaimed one-woman documentary theatrical piece by Anna Deavere Smith, will be screened by the Hammer Museum on Wednesday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.

UCLA Engineering has joined with a Korean youth organization to establish the program, which will focus on addressing malaria and other global health challenges.

No-Hee Park, dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry and Distinguished Professor of Dentistry and of Medicine, has decided to step down as dean on June 30, 2016, and return to his research and teaching.

Law professor Cara Horowitz on what legal challenges opponents of President Obama’s new Clean Power Plan will use to try to block its implementation.

This summer, 20 UCLA students are learning about food and food justice as part of a new class funded by the UC Global Food Initiative.

Children and adolescents who receive integrated mental health and medical treatment are 66 percent more likely to have a good outcome than those who receive more traditional primary care.

Elisa Long, an expert in probability and statistics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, wrote a column that appeared in the Washington Post about how statistics helped guide her through life, death and 'The Price is Right.'

President Napolitano has appointed a systemwide task force of UC faculty, staff and administrators to help develop a new set of retirement benefits options for UC to offer future employees hired on or after July 1, 2016.

Four recent UCLA retirees reminisce about their experiences and offer words of wisdom to their fellow Bruins.

James Welling, professor of photography at UCLA’s department of art, will have a solo exhibition that features 50 pieces that demonstrate painter Andrew Wyeth’s formative influence on Welling’s career.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA has received an National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help plan "Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths."

Dr. Aichi Chien, an associate professor of radiological sciences, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bee Foundation to advance her research on the computational analysis of brain aneurysms.

Dr. Nina Shapiro writes in the Wall Street Journal that a new law in California permitting exemptions for vaccines only with a doctor's order is a good first step, but more needs to be done to ensure vaccination compliance.