Robert Kaplan, professor emeritus of health policy and management at the Fielding School of Public Health, has been named chief science officer at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, an organization under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

More than 600 people attended the 7th annual Dealing for Duchenne celebrity poker tournament and silent auction, raising $650,000 for the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA.

UCLA will offer free hands-only CPR training on June 5 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center.

Behzad Razavi, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, and UCLA postdoctoral scholar Hegong Wei have received the 2013 IEEE CICC Best Paper Award.

Carol Bakhos, associate professor of late Antique Judaism and Jewish studies, has published her latest book, 'The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Interpretations,' with Harvard University Press.

Susan Slyomovics, UCLA professor of anthropology and Near Eastern languages and cultures, has published a new book, 'How to Accept German Reparations.'

After the killings of six UC Santa Barbara students in Isla Vista, students at UCLA used social media to organize a Monday night memorial vigil outside Royce Hall.

UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Siegel discusses his latest book 'Brainstorm: The Power and the Purpose of the Teenage Brain' tonight, June 3, 7 p.m. in Covel Commons.

UC President Janet Napolitano orders flags at all UC facilities to be lowered to half-staff to honor the memories of the victims of Friday's tragic events in Isla Vista.

Counseling and psychological services are available at all times to UCLA students, faculty and staff. This is a painful moment for the entire higher education community. Let’s look out for each other.

Authors Donald Antrim and Karl Ove Knausgaard will lecture on 'The Alternative Uses of Real Life in Fiction & Memoir' at UCLA's Hammer Museum on May 29.

After more than two decades as the radio voice of UCLA football and basketball, Chris Roberts wants to step down while he's still on top.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Uber founder Travis Kalanick and online fashionista Natalie Massenet joined Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton and Pope Francis on the magazine’s 2014 list of 'The 100 most influential people in the world.'

UCLA archaeologist Giorgio Buccellati, who has been working on excavating an ancient city in Syria for almost two decades, is working remotely with a team of villagers in the region to protect the site from being destroyed in the ongoing civil war.

Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.

Chih-Ming Ho of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected a distinguished Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

A new facility located near Pauley Pavilion would provide both the men's and women's basketball teams with practice gyms, lockers rooms and other amenities.

The funds will be used to build a garden pavilion that will house a welcome center and classroom. The construction is part of a series of renovations to increase the garden's visibility, upgrade its infrastructure and improve its accessibility.

Watch the 3-D light and sound show honoring UCLA's past and future and that wowed crowds who watched it projected onto Royce Hall.

UCLA and other institutions that serve more than 5 million Southland patients issued joint guidelines aimed at helping doctors and patients confront complex questions about dying with dignity.

UCLA-led research at four Los Angeles public schools found that many students didn't eat even a bite of the new, healthier items that were added to menus when LAUSD refreshed its lunch offerings in 2011.

Anne McKnight, a visiting assistant professor at UCLA, teaches a course on urban agriculture in Los Angeles that emphasizes that growing one’s own food is more important than ever.

Alex Wang and Benjamin van Rooj explore the consequences and goals of China's new environmental protection law in an op-ed in the New York Times.

The 28th annual JazzReggae Festival comes to campus this Memorial Day weekend. The two-day festival — Jam Day on Sunday, May 25, and Reggae Day on Monday, May 26 — will feature artists such as Ky-Mani Marley, Snoop Dogg, Aloe Blacc and Black Uhuru.

The 25-member cast of the upcoming Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program production of "Guys and Dolls" has been rehearsing six times a week -- four hours at a stretch -- for opening night on Thursday.