In Grad Slam, UCLA graduate students ditch the jargon of their disciplines to see who can come up with the best mini-presentation in plain English.

The UCLA Hammer Museum’s annual Kids’ Art Museum Project on May 17 is a one-of-a-kind fundraising event imagined by artists that provides extraordinary experiences for kids and their families.

Dean Rachel Moran has been named to Lawyers of Color’s fourth annual Power List, a comprehensive catalog of the nation’s most influential minority attorneys and non-minority diversity advocates. She was profiled in the 2015 Lawyers of Color Power issue.

Gerald López was awarded the 2015 Deborah L. Rhode Award for his deep engagement in community lawyering and record of public service.

A majority of doctors surveyed believe ACA will steer the country’s health care in the right direction. Doctors’ stance on the law appeared to be closely correlated with their political affiliations and medical specialties.

The fire was confined to a third-floor office suite. Other than the dentistry school’s academic wing, the Center for Health Sciences complex is expected to be accessible and operating normally.

The report from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law shows that permitting same-sex couples to marry leads to more social acceptance of same-sex marriage, not backlash against it.

Step forward to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's lifesaving work by joining the “Out of the Darkness” campus walk at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18 at UCLA's Drake Stadium.

A Q&A with Robert Foster, UCLA Anderson School of Management adjunct professor of decisions, operations and technology management and director of the Global Access Program.

Feature film ‘Dear White People’ — dubbed an ‘Advanced Course in Diversity ’ in a New York Times review — will be presented at 7 p.m., April 29 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater.

Raymond Knapp has been selected for the 2015 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Knapp will complete a one-month residency in Bogliasco, Italy, where he will complete his latest book on Haydn and American popular music.

The new Career Closet provides UCLA students with gently used business attire that they can keep and wear to interviews for work or interviews for a job, internship, graduate school or professional networking events.

Sriram Kosuri, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was honored today as a 2015 Searle Scholar, which recognizes young scientists for their contributions to chemical and biological research.

Nearly 13,500 campus guests, including 4,457 admitted freshmen, came to UCLA Saturday to learn about the world-class academic opportunities and campus lifestyle that make the Westwood campus the best place to start their college career in fall 2015.

The Los Angeles Times Book Club comes to UCLA on Sunday, April 26, for a discussion about “The Boys of Summer,” a book by Roger Kahn about the reign of Jackie Robinson and other members of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.

The recipient of the 2015 My Last Lecture Award is Randall Rojas, assistant adjunct professor of economics and an alumnus who holds three UCLA degrees.

The policy takes effect for freshmen entering the UCLA College this fall and transfer students entering in fall 2017. More than 100 existing courses already meet the requirement.

UCLA sociology professor emeritus David Lopez has been appointed inaugural UCLA faculty retirement liaison.

Dr. Owen Witte, the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, will receive the G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, the American Association for Cancer Research announced today.

Political science professor Michael Chwe writes about having his book “Rational Ritual,” which is about the popularization of knowledge, chosen by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a book club selection.

UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology is holding its first-ever, grand-scale robotic surgical training sessions over two days, concluding today. 

Four UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 175 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships.

A social psychologist at UCLA Anderson explores how human behavior can be modified by bringing people closer to their future selves.

Bioengineering faculty member Dino Di Carlo has been admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom.

UCLA bioengineering professor Dean Ho has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.