For the 2015–16 academic year, 20 Big Bang Theory scholars will be selected to receive financial assistance. Each year in perpetuity, five additional scholars will be chosen.

The researchers say that women with a high risk for breast cancer recurrence benefit by having chemotherapy as part of their treatment, but for those at low risk, chemo has no added value.

“The brain has a major system that seems predisposed to get us ready to be social in our spare moments,” says UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman.

Neil Denari recognized for his significant contributions to architecture and society and for excellence in the profession.

The new vice chancellor, dean and CEO spoke about his new roles and how he wants to make UCLA’s medical enterprise a John Wooden-like dynasty of excellence in health science.

New research evaluates effectiveness of a health plan designed for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes.

The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, is a participant in ‘What It Means to Be American,’ a national conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square.

The UCLA Academic Senate has selected psychology professor Robert Bjork and history professor Arch Getty as the recipients of the 2015-2016 Faculty Research Lectureships.

Scott Brandenberg, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents two 1955 television classics, 'Time for Love' and 'Our Town,' at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 29 in the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

Take a behind-the-scenes peek into the art studios of nearly three dozen graduate students from the UCLA Department of Art this Saturday, May 30.

Professor Carol Bakhos, director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, discusses 'Divine Election: Exploring the Function and the Quandary of Elective Monotheism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam' on May 28.

Students, student veterans, faculty, staff and community members came together today to collect 90,000 U.S. flags that were placed at gravesites at Los Angeles National Cemetery on Memorial Day in honor of American military men and women.

Prime Time Games brings full-inclusion sports teams of students from disadvantaged schools and the developmentally disabled to campus for a day with UCLA student-athletes as coaches and mentors.

UCLA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on May 27 to enable collaboration in the planetary sciences between the two institutions that will promote the stature, visibility and excellence of the field.

Dr. Karin Nielsen, UCLA professor of pediatric infectious diseases, has won a prestigious Brazilian prize in health sciences.

UCLA alumna Esmeralda Garcia, who began high school reading at a fifth-grade level, returned to her high school to address students at a rally attended by UC President Janet Napolitano.

UCLA’s annual United Way campaign, which helps provide housing, education and jobs for the less fortunate, runs May 26-June 5.

Carol Kruse, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in immunological therapy for brain cancer, passed away on March 28 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 61.

Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, the LGBT center bolsters UCLA’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse campus community.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes about how teacher evaluations that include hours of observation and student feedback, among other criteria, foster trust between educators and those grading them.

In a message to the UCLA campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. will be leaving UCLA and praised him for his leadership in advancing UCLA’s civic engagement.

A new University of California video, ‘Preparing for Retirement,’ guides faculty and staff through the process of retirement.

M.V. Lee Badgett of the Williams Institute writes that in the May 22 election, voters in historically Catholic Ireland, might legalize nationwide same-sex marriage before Americans.

Research by scientists at the Broad Stem Cell Research Center shows that the cells carrying parents’ genes to a child are unprotected during part of the prenatal stage of development.