Researchers from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability call for a federal ban on salamander imports to prevent a deadly pathogen from coming here.

Staff meteorologist James Murakami has been forecasting the weather for Westwood and the surrounding region for 33 years.

Catalina eddy? June gloom? Santa Ana winds? UCLA staff meteorologist James Murakami defines common Southern California weather terms.

Dominique Hanssens, Bud Knapp Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, is the recipient of an award for his lifetime contributions to the theory and practice of marketing.

Dr. Timothy Miller, a UCLA emeritus professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, was honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America with an Excellence in the Sciences Award.

Janet Ruth Hadda, a Yiddish professor of Germanic languages, psychoanalyst and biographer, died June 23 in from metastatic cancer. She was 69.

Rich Bertolucci, associate sports information director for UCLA Athletics, died on July 28, following a long battle with cancer. He was 56.

Political science professor Lynn Vavreck writes in the New York Times that endorsements for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination have been few so far because of a lack of a consensus pick among party elites.

Exploring the brave new world of microbiota may one day lead to the development of better ways to manage infections, create new antibiotics and address obesity, heart disease and cancer.

The Science and Entertainment Exchange at UCLA connects scientists with filmmakers to bring scientific accuracy to the big screen.

Takahashi, professor of urban planning and Asian American studies, has been appointed interim leader of the school effective immediately.

The school has risen rapidly since its creation in 2007 with a visionary $30 million gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation.

Regardless of where they are from, people judge acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago.

‘Kids in the Courtyard: Indian Sweets and Games,’ a free event for families, will take place at the UCLA Fowler Museum on Sunday, Aug. 9 from 1-4 p.m.

Film director Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' (1986) and 'Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads' (1983) screen on Aug. 8 as part of a UCLA Film and Television Archive series.

John Hawkins, emeritus professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has published 'Research, Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education.'

Michelle Caswell, assistant professor of information studies, received the Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her book, 'Archiving the the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia.'

A record number of students from all over the world recently completed Anderson School of Management's annual MEMES Summer Institutes.

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games brought athletes and their families from around the world to UCLA. Some of our favorite moments.

Matthew Lieberman, professor of psychology at UCLA, received the 2015 SESP Career Trajectory Award on behalf of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

The new ceramics hold promise for use in miniature mechanical components and flexible-yet-strong foils for use in solar sails, which are used to propel spacecraft, among many other applications.

New research is particularly important in light of the recent rise in cases of measles in the U.S.

UCLA researchers found that a subset of ovarian cancer cells that don’t produce the CA125 protein biomarker, used to test for ovarian cancer, have an enhanced ability to repair their DNA and resist programmed cell death.

UCLA Hammer Museum screens comedian Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious,' followed by a discussion with artist Mark Bradford and UCLA associate professor of English Uri McMillan on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 7:30, at the Billy Wilder Theater.