The University of California will require incoming students to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.

UCLA mascot Joe Bruin was invited to take part in a friendly dance-off with USC's Tommy Trojan on last night's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC. We know who won.

Jayathi Y. Murthy, chair and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, has been appointed dean of UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced today.

Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by school discipline policies and excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report co-authored by two UCLA law professors.

Anthem, Inc. disclosed on Feb. 4 that it was the target of a very sophisticated cyber attack that potentially compromised information about UC students, retirees, employees and their dependents.

A student told UCLA police she was sexually assaulted over the weekend in the North Village neighborhood of Westwood.

A new book by UCLA urban historian Eric Avila gives voice to the opponents of highway construction in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and, in particular, in communities of color.

A new study by UCLA researchers found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain’s gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.

The Department of Education’s college rating system could hurt universities that enroll large numbers of students who plan to graduate from other institutions.

CaliParks.org aims to bring parks to everyone by making finding nearby parks and activities as easy as pulling out your smartphone.

Jillian Neuner raised $1,750 for UCLA research in honor of a friend battling Ewing's Sarcoma, one of the rarest forms of pediatric cancer.

Study found that paramedics can give intravenous medications to stroke patients within the “golden hour,” the window during which treatments are most likely to help patients avoid long-term neurological damage.

An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.

Blake Allmendinger, a scholar of literature of the American West, has written a memoir about his mother, an eccentric recluse from whom he was estranged.

The Advisory Board Company's Consulting and Management Division announced on Tuesday that it has recognized the UCLA Health System with a national award for innovative initiatives that improved care quality and patient experience while lowering cost.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey will speak on the Criminal Justice Mental Health Project for the third annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture.

“The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism” co-authored by Robert E. Buswell Jr. of UCLA and Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan, has won the prestigious 2015 Dartmouth Medal for outstanding reference work of the American Library Association.

Research at UCLA played key role in developing the treatment, which could signal a new strategy for arresting tumor growth and extending the time before cancer worsens.

“Letter to Jimmy,” Alain Mabanckou’s much-lauded book, is a fitting tribute to the pivotal American essayist, activist and playwright, author of the novel, “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and a collection of essays, “Notes of a Native Son,” among other major works.

Jim and Carol Collins, who met while they were UCLA students in the 1940s, will have part of the training facility named in their honor.

Darwin’s writings focused much more on species that had changed over time than on those that hadn’t. So how do scientists explain a species living for so long without evolving?

A research paper by Jason Cong, a Chancellor’s Professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, was selected as the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper in the 2015 Asia South-Pacific Design Conference.

UCLA is making available free software to the campus community that downloads in seconds and increases the chance that campus police or other local law enforcement agencies will be able to reunite owners with stolen electronic devices.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes that teacher training could learn from doctor training by adopting residency programs that combine university instruction and field-based learning.