UCLA Extension writing instructor Nathan Deuel writes in New York Times Magazine about how walking from New York to New Orleans made him fall in love with these simple, supremely comfortable running shoes.

The new members, all UCLA alumni and long-time supporters, will serve two-year terms.

UCLA Health has been providing all the staff, materials and supplies to run the Special Olympics Polyclinic since July 24 to offer free medical care to any athlete or delegate who becomes injured.

New research highlights the value of a program at UCLA's Semel Institute that teaches social skills to high-functioning young adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Teens who have a positive role model, an adult mentor at school, and who volunteer or participate in extracurricular clubs are less likely to be overweight.

The DNA-based discovery means the biological family Canidae has 36 members, not 35.

Public health professor Roshan Bastani, director of UCLA’s Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, joined a panel of health experts at a Zócalo event to discuss how to help low-income families stay healthy.

Five men who have been completely paralyzed for years moved their legs in a rhythmic motion, thanks to a noninvasive method of stimulating the spinal cord, UCLA scientists report.

Foster youth in UCLA First Star Bruin Guardian Scholars Academy helps lead effort to outfit Haitian soccer team at Special Olympics World Games.

Two classics directed by Dorothy Arzner, “The Wild Party” (1929) and “Anybody’s Woman” (1930), will screen 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 31, at the Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum.

For the first time in Special Olympics World Games history, cheers are ringing out from the sidelines as 225 cheerleaders from around the country converge to be part of Cheer for LA2015.

Mark Gold writes in the L.A. Times that to meet the mayor’s goal of reducing imported water by 50 percent by 2025, we must all pay more to upgrade infrastructure and invest in new projects.

A new five-year review rating the academic publishing output of department faculty puts UCLA among the nation’s very best.

In California, where bilingual instruction is largely prohibited, secondary students who don’t speak English quickly fall behind. But a project to create a bilingual online curriculum is being led by UCLA professor Patricia Gándara.

Glen MacDonald, UCLA’s John Muir Memorial Endowed Chair in Geography, and Laurence C. Smith, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography, have been elected to the Class of 2015 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union.

The treatment uses a chemical to block an RNA molecule that’s typically found in high levels in people with ulcerative colitis.

The UCLA Volunteer Center, which is coordinating Team UCLA’s efforts campuswide, estimates that nearly 1,000 Bruin students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters are lending their time and talents to make the games a rousing success.

The award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will fund a phase I/II clinical trial that will enroll 10 patients with an immunodeficiency disorder at three different U.S. locations.

The UCLA Center for World Health and the LA5 Rotary Club brought together a panel of experts to talk about the failing health of the Earth and what mega-cities can do about it before an audience of 200 business peoplein downtown Los Angeles.

Caley Versfelt, a Special Olympics World Games global messenger, has gained a lot of self-confidence and important skills through Special Olympics and several UCLA programs geared toward people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Two UCLA astronomy professors are playing an important role in an international initiative to build the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

Professor Christopher Russell of the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics testified before Congress on July 28 about his work with NASA’s Dawn Mission, which he leads.

Kareiva will conduct research into urban conservation, improving environmental communications and exploring the role of consumer choices in pushing businesses to go green.

Roshan Bastani, director of UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, and other experts discuss the growing gap between rich and poor Americans, not just in income, but in nutrition, longevity and healthy behaviors, at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July ...

A UCLA-led study suggests that the Brain Trauma Foundation's guidelines for treating traumatic brain injuries do not guarantee better clinical outcomes for patients.