The nine-day program, in its eighth year at UCLA, covers the basics of business ownership.

New study focuses on rare DNA mutations that affect protein function.

The UCLA Administrative Management Group is recognizing Raellen Man, Michael Heafey and La Shonda Coleman as the recipients of the organization's annual leadership awards.

Diana Bontà, adjunct professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded the Hispanics in Philanthropy Giver Award for her leadership in health funding in California.

Professor Sudipto Banerjee, chair of the department of biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been awarded a 2015 Distinguished Achievement Medal by the American Statistical Association.

Tobias Higbie is a UCLA scholar of labor history who is using digitized historical records to gain new perspectives about labor and social movements of past eras.

Youths, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, experience many similar issues leading to homelessness, but providers of homeless youth services indicate some of these issues are exacerbated for youths who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning.

Fernando Torres-Gil writes that Americans can learn a lot from how two of the country’s fastest growing populations are learning how to embrace change.

The 2015 Research Conference on Aging, a free event hosted by UCLA GeroNet, will take place 8 a.m. to noon, Thursday, July 9, in UCLA’s Ackerman Grand Ballroom.

Stephen Aron, an authority on the American West and author of “The American West: A Very Short Introduction,” recently published by Oxford University, is the new Robert N. Burr Chair of UCLA’s department of history. Since joining the department in ...

UCLA Staff Assembly's 2015-16 Executive Board members, elected by staff members in a campuswide vote, took office on office on July 1, 2015.

Recipients of benefits from the University of California Retirement Plan (UCRP) and UC-PERS Plus 5 Plan are receiving a cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2015, and appearing in checks paid at the end of July.

Sepsis accounts for roughly the same percentage of hospital readmissions in California as heart attacks and congestive heart failure — and it costs the health care system more than both of them combined.

Dr. Clarence Braddock III, vice dean for education and chief medical education officer at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named chair of the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine. 

The University of California today introduced a new academic roadmap for California Community College students who plan to apply to transfer to UC campuses.

The researchers tracked the behavior of patients and doctors before and after a 2009 policy change in a county-run health program in Orange County, California.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health team, in partnership with public- and private-sector organizations, is spearheading community action to reduce exposure to smoking in Los Angeles apartment buildings.

This year on Independence Day, Eugene Volokh, professor at UCLA School of Law, was one among 38 naturalized citizens to be recognized by the organization as part of its “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” initiative.

UCLA Hitch Suites was lauded at the 45th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards presentation. The awards recognize the best design projects in Los Angeles County from the past year.

The American Society of Human Genetics has named UCLA researcher Leonid Kruglyak the 2015 recipient of the Curt Stern Award for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics early in his career.

By day, UCLA biochemist Ivan Lopez explores the molecular pathology of the inner ear; by night and on weekends, he is a black-belted martial arts master.

History professor Josh Sides talks about how L.A. came to embody the best and worst of what urban America has to offer African Americans, on July 8 at UCLA's Hammer Museum.

UCLA Anderson professor Daniel Oppenheimer co-wrote an op-ed that says while the upcoming vote won’t save the economy, a vote at least may prevent social and political upheaval.

The Hammer Museum and KCRW-89.9FM celebrate summer with the free concert series 'Summer of Soul' beginning at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 9, in the courtyard of the museum.

Dr. Siavash Kurdistani, associate director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center's Gene Regulation Program, has been appointed chair of the UCLA Department of Biological Chemistry, beginning July 1.