Olga Kagan says that offering language classes tailored for heritage speakers, who speak a language other than English at home but may not be able to read it, would have significant advantages for society.

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers more than 150 public events for winter 2015.

The study sheds new light on why TM7 has thus far resisted scientific study and its role in the progression of periodontitis and other diseases.

Units across campus will be closed or have limited hours from Wednesday, Dec. 24, through Sunday, Jan. 4, as part of an annual winter closure to save energy and money.

UC Berkeley scholar Robert Alter visits UCLA to present 'The Challenge of Translating the Bible' on Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m., and 'The Story of David and Bathsheba' on Jan. 10, 10:30 a.m.

Casey Abrams is only 11 years old, but he managed to deliver approximately 1,000 toys to the Chase Child Life program at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA Monday. 

New UCLA study showing almost half of the 6.9 million Californians who lacked insurance in 2012 were in a family with a full-time worker will serve as a baseline to gauge effects of Obamacare.

In a new book, UCLA and Northwestern social scientists ascribe most acts of violence to a truly surprising impulse: the desire to do the right thing.

Nadereh Pourat, the director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has also been appointed director of the Center's Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program.

White House immigration staff members attended a briefing Friday by UCLA students on the economic impact of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Obama enacted by executive order in 2012 and expanded this year.

Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor, was presented the annual E.O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation by the Center for Biological Diversity for her groundbreaking research on carbon dioxide’s role in climate change.

UCLA’s Laure Murat writes that for at least several centuries people have ascribed acts of terror to madness, often to advance political agendas.

New UCLA brain research offers hope that lost memories can be restored. The study provides evidence that long-term memory is not stored at synapses, as previously thought.

The Hammer will debut its first offsite exhibition, “Charles Gaines: Librettos: Manuel de Falla/Stokely Carmichael,” Feb. 28 on a new art and social service campus in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park.

Courtney Lyder, on leave from duties as dean of the UCLA School of Nursing since July, will return fulltime to the faculty and step down as dean effective July 1, 2015, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced recently.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) has awarded the UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) an annual prize given for a bibliography, archive or digital project. The prize is one of two awarded for the 2012–13 period.

Eddie Murphy, director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, is retiring on Dec. 31, 2014 to finish renovating a historic home she purchased in her hometown of Wellsville, Ohio.

UCLA professor Olga Kagan, director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the 130th annual Modern Language Association convention on Jan.10, 2015, in Vancouver.

UCLA study shows that combining palbociclib with letrozole effectively doubled the length of time women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer were on treatment without their cancer worsening.

Urban Planning lecturer Stephen Commins was part of a team of researchers that wrote the World Bank’s new World Development Report for 2015, "Mind, Society and Behavior."  

Professor Emeritus Robert Burr, one of the country’s leading authorities on Latin American history, passed away on Dec. 8 following cardiac arrest in Port Jefferson, Long Island.

UC employees and students traveling on official university business have long benefited from great travel insurance. Now UC staff can also purchase comparable coverage at highly competitive rates for their own personal travel outside the United States.

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that the 2015 Maximum Annual Contribution limit for retirement plans is increasing. The MAC limit for the UC Retirement Savings Program's 403(b) Plan and 457(b) Plan will increase to $18,000.

Burglind Jungmann, UCLA professor of art history, has published a new book, 'Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910.'

For the second consecutive year, UCLA ranked No. 5 in Kiplinger Personal Finance’s list of “Best Values in Public Colleges.”