The scientists resolved a dispute over whether a small population of black-headed squirrel monkeys, which are found only in an isolated part of Brazil, is a sub-species of another species or its own species.

UCLA School of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law and Southwestern Law School have been awarded a one-year grant to establish a pilot program to help new attorneys launch and develop viable law practices serving low- and modest-income clients.

Law professor Cheryl Harris will moderate a faculty discussion on race and social inequality Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in Royce Hall 314. The event is free and open to the public.

In a message to the campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Dr. A. Eugene Washington will leave the campus at the end of February.

Less than a third of parents reported that their child wore a hat or sunglasses or attempted to seek shade when exposed to the sun.

A team led by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute developed a new method for extracting and analyzing cancer cells circulating in patients’ blood.

A new UCLA-led study illuminates a vast network of little understood rivers and streams flowing on top of Greenland’s ice sheet.

People told how much cancer-causing pollution they could prevent were more likely to change their power usage than people told how much money they could save.

Anthropology professor Alan Page Fiske writes in an op-ed that the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attackers, like so many people who use violence, probably thought they were acting righteously.

More than 112,000 students — with more diverse geographic, ethnic and racial backgrounds than last year’s applicants — have applied for admission to UCLA for fall 2015.

Victoria Dailey discusses the history and cultural impacts of Los Angeles' most iconic tree in "Piety and Perversity: the Palms of Los Angeles." The Clark Quarterly Lecture takes place on Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

UCLA students as well as tech lovers and industry entrepreneurs came together Thursday to learn about and discuss the latest developments in wearable devices, virtual reality, robotics, connected cars and the Internet of Things at UCLA Anderson’s inaugural Consumer Electronics Show.

UCLA chemistry and physics professor Thomas Mason’s 'LithoPartical Dispersions: Colloidal Alphabet Soup' is on exhibit at the Boston Society of Architects Space.

In just a few minutes, you can make sure your benefits are in order and that you're ready to take advantage of some of the great benefits and tools UC offers.

Some of the world’s most talented, up-and-coming young jazz musicians call UCLA home as students and fellows of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

A UCLA psychologist and her sister explain why Disney struck billion-dollar gold with Elsa, Anna and ‘Let It Go.’

Smadar Naoz, UCLA assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the prestigious 2015 American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Prize for outstanding research.

Linda Rosenstock, dean emerita of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been designated an Open Society Foundation International Scholar.

The first Chicano feature film, “Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive!,” was recently added to the National Film Registry. It was thought to have been lost or destroyed until UCLA professor Chon Noriega got in touch with its creator and had the only copy of it restored.

The online master’s degree program at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been named the best in the country by U.S. News and World Report.

Alicia Gaspar de Alba has received the 2015 Book Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education for her book,  "[Un]framing the 'Bad Women' Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause" (University of Texas Press, 2014).

UCLA’s BRITE Center for Science, Research and Policy has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to address the delivery of mental health services under the Affordable Care Act.

Research could have broad, long-term impact in improving disease modeling and devising new therapies for patients.

A 2014 retrospective on the world leaders, scholars, journalists and artists and numerous other notables who spoke at UCLA’s International Institute.

Vickie Mays, professor of psychology in the UCLA College, and of health policy and management in the Fielding School of Public Health, has been reappointed to the federal advisory committee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.