A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

As a way to thank UCLA’s dedicated, hard-working campus staff, UCLA Dining Services is inviting staff members to lunch at a discounted rate from Sept. 1-5.

Robert Candler, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a $1 million research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an ultra-compact X-ray free electron laser.

Dr. Joseph K. Perloff, the founding director of the Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, died Aug. 18 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., of complications from coronary artery disease. He was 89.

Efforts to hit Gov. Brown’s water reduction target could have unintended, and potentially harmful, consequences for the health of Californians and their communities.

Photographer Catherine Opie and ethnomusicologist Daniel Neuman made the Art Career Project's list of “15 Noteworthy Art Professors in Los Angeles.”

Forty years ago, it was unthinkable to live a life with an artificial heart, with someone else’s transplanted heart or with an assist-heart pump. Today, the technological advances of modern medicine make this possible. But how does that change a human being?

Luskin Dean Franklin Gilliam says citing statistics about racial disparities can be persuasive for reform advocates, contrasting a recent Stanford study that said the statistics were an ineffective persuasive tool.

Susan Dietz, five-time Tony nominee and producer of such Broadway hits as “Fela!,” “The Little Dog Laughed” and “Mothers and Sons,” will be coming to UCLA in February to teach an immersive five-week course on the fundamentals of producing on- and off-Broadway shows.

A UCLA-led study has identified a protein that appears to play a key role in protecting people infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis from developing the active form of the disease.

Dr. Peter Lawrence was recently named president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

The Student Leadership Academy places recent university graduates with different social justice organizations and labor unions in Southern California. The program is sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Labor Center.

Geoffrey Mess, a professor of mathematics who made important contributions to topology and geometric group theory, has died after an extended illness. He was 54.

On August 22 at 2 p.m., Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds and awareness for lifesaving childhood cancer research. The goal is to raise $5,000.

Sociology professor Judith A. Seltzer has been elected president of the Population Association of America for 2015. She will serve as president-elect in 2015 and as president in 2016.

Urban planning professor Donald Shoup says that property owners should be required to fix their broken sidewalks when they sell their property.

UCLA-led research finds that a variant of an existing vaccine offers stronger protection against both diseases and with the addition of a particular protein, further boosts protection against leprosy.

Inspired by her memories of her daughter, Paulinda Babbini created a nonprofit to raise money to fund the work of a UCLA scientist who focuses on gynecological cancers.

In its new Academic Ranking of World Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks UCLA second among U.S. public universities and 12th overall for the fourth consecutive year.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block writes about the new science behind the disruption wrought by jet lag, unusual hours and bright tablet screens.

Minorities had not been well represented in clinical trials of these devices, and the large-scale, two-year study sought to bridge this knowledge gap.

Joyce Appleby's “Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination” is in the running to win the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.

A non-credit UCLA class for international students and foreign faculty teaches idioms, pop culture and campus life, with a new emphasis on slang, L.A. neighborhoods and foodie havens.

Through shared decision-making, patients and their physicians become true collaborators in determining the best course of care.

“Street Muse: Kenya” will screen on Aug. 21 at the UCLA Fowler Museum, followed by conversation with director and star.