This year, UCLA's annual food drive is also part of a competition to donate more than the university's cross-town rival.

Michael Eselun, certified interfaith chaplain for the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, explores "It could be worse," a common coping strategy for dealing with cancer.

Plants worldwide are more sensitive to drought than many scientists realized. The research may improve predictions of which plant species will survive climate change.

UCLA mathematician Terence Tao talked prime numbers and more in a lively conversation with pundit Stephen Colbert on the 'The Colbert Report' on Nov. 12.

The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award recognizes the hospital’s work implementing quality improvement measures.

UCLA will host its free, annual “Exploring Your Universe” event — UCLA’s day for the public to learn about science — this Sunday, Nov. 16, from 12 noon until 5 p.m., with some activities continuing until 8 p.m., weather permitting.

Researchers from UCLA and Architected Materials will use the grant to continue developing breakthrough technology to reduce the frequency and severity of head injuries to football players.

As a tribute to the couple, the UCLA Center for Health Sciences Plaza was renamed the Irma and Norman Switzer Plaza.

A UCLA study has found a trend at colleges toward teaching practices such as class discussions and group learning and away from lectures and other teacher-centered styles.

UCLA’s annual campus closure will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 24 and will continue through Jan. 4, 2015, with the campus reopening on Monday, Jan. 5.

Casandra Rauser has been named director of UCLA's “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles” Grand Challenge project.

UCLA information studies professor Johanna Drucker has published a new book, 'Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production,' which she outlines the importance of learning to interpret how visual forms not only present knowledge but produce it.

For 20 years master’s students in the social welfare program have learned firsthand about homelessness by going to downtown Los Angeles. Some never left.

In a day-long event, renowned scientists will highlight and celebrate the monumental contributions of Wallace, at one time the most famous scientist in the world.

A service of UCLA's California Health Interview Survey, AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition allows users to quickly find health disparities within specific cities or legislative districts.

UCLA police have arrested a Los Angeles man in connection with the recent burglary of laptop computers from a campus library and the student union store.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will escort a delegation of Los Angeles leaders to China to attend a Nov. 19 ceremony celebrating UCLA Health’s partnership with Centre Testing International on an advanced medical laboratory in Shanghai.

The center is the first of its kind, dedicated solely to advancing the power of entertainment and performing arts to inspire social change.

An Army veteran working on his Ph.D. at UCLA says a new approach is needed to match veterans and their skills with private sector employers.

Year-round program aims to introduce entrepreneurship as a viable career path and foster entrepreneurial skills through individualized coaching, mentoring and business development.

UCLA urban planning professor Susanna Hecht has been awarded the Elinor Melville Prize for the best book on Latin American environmental history.

Campus faculty, staff, students, and alumni came together today in Wilson Plaza to salute current military service members and veterans for their service. In other news, UCLA has received recognition recently for being among the friendliest campuses for veterans.

If they choose to pay for it, UCLA faculty and staff can choose to enroll in the ARAG legal plan, which is being offered with an enhanced identity theft benefit, during Open Enrollment.

Fifty-five laptop computers were stolen early Saturday morning from an equipment loan room. Police provided surveillance footage of a suspect.

As chancellor of UCLA, my overriding objective has been preserving our world-renowned academic quality and helping keep a UCLA education affordable for Californians in the face of declining state support.