Marking its 50th year, the UCLA School of Dentistry is celebrating its five-decade rise to becoming one of the leading research-intensive dental schools in the nation with a yearlong celebration that will start this weekend.

Dental student Ryan Brennan made it possible for 200-plus patients to get dental care. Urban planning student Connor Johnson has a similar passion to help people in poverty.

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

An exhibition of the work of MFA students in UCLA Media Arts opens on May 15 and runs through May 29 at the New Wight Gallery.

Identifying enzyme catalysts that improve the speed and efficiency of the drug-production process can be a major boon. Figuring out exactly why a particular enzyme works so well, UCLA researchers say, is an altogether different quest.

The University of California proposes to renew the Employee-initiated Reduction In Time (ERIT) Program for a three-year period. Employee comments are invited by May 30.

Peter Taylor, former UC chief financial officer, will present 'UC’s Financial Challenges and the Systemwide Response' as part of UCLA’s Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center’s series of 45th Anniversary Celebration lectures.

UCLA education professor emeritus John Hawkins has been appointed a Distinguished International Professor at East China Normal University.

A guest house designed by Steven Christensen, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, was selected by the American Institute of Architects for its Emerging Professionals Exhibition in Washington, D.C.

Brian Lehigh, Tara Noorani and Michael Oshiro were recognized for projects serving impoverished veterans, the homeless and incarcerated youth.

In the late '70s, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett proved it's never too late to pursue one's dreams, leaving a successful career in the corporate world to study archaeology at UCLA. Now she's giving back.

A unique partnership between UCLA and the LAUSD, the pilot school, which serves a largely low-income immigrant community, has made impressive strides in engendering educational success and promoting a college-going culture.

They went to Capitol Hill when their project on epilepsy was selected to represent the best of undergraduate research in California.

Approximately 600 students will be presenting their research in the humanities and the social, life and physical sciences.

UCLA professor of history Mary Terrall has published a new book, 'Catching Nature in the Act.'

Michael Lens, assistant professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has received awards from both the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate for his research in housing policy.

Patricia Gándara, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, has been selected as the 2014 Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University’s School of Education.

Sandra Harding, UCLA professor of education and gender studies, has been honored with the 2013 John Desmond Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton will be at UCLA on Thursday, May 22 as part of the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies' 'Images in Blackness' film series.

UCLA professor Fernando Torres-Gil has been named to the California Social Work Hall of Distinction by the California Social Welfare Archives.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA has announced its 2014–15 program, featuring complex and collaborative work from renowned contemporary artists in music, theater, dance and spoken word.

Penelope (Penny) Hein-Unruh, UCLA associate vice chancellor for academic advising in the College of Letters and Science, died May 8 in her home in Los Angeles.

Former UCLA track and cross country star Meb Keflezighi, who won the 2014 Boston Marathon, was honored today the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

UCLA professor of physics and astronomy Ni Ni has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.

UCLA professor of architecture and urban design Sylvia Lavin's 'Everything Loose Will Land' explores the dynamic intersection of architecture and the visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s. The exhibit is at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.