Professor Peter Sellars of UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance has won the 2014 Polar Music Prize, has been named 2014-15 director-in-residence of the English National Opera and will be honored by the New York Park Avenue Armory this fall.

Two new gifts will fund research in stem cell science and digestive diseases and support faculty recruitment at two of UCLA's renowned research centers.

President Obama met for a few minutes at LAX with students in a UCLA seminar taught by actor and former White House aide Kal Penn. The class: "Hope, Change, and Fist Bumps: Young Americans and The Obama Presidency."

UCLA information studies professor Michelle Caswell’s new book examines the ethical questions of archiving and displaying documentation of human rights violations and atrocities.

A rolling water treatment plant designed by UCLA researchers made a pit stop on campus this week before heading north to the San Joaquin Valley, where it will help address California’s inadequate water supply.

Eleven UCLA students received awards as part of the sixth annual UCLA Library Awards Day.

Though health has improved for Latin Americans in recent decades childhood malnutrition, anemia and vaccine delivery problems persist.

A grant from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will enable the UCLA School of Dentistry to provide dental care for more than 1,000 people with HIV or AIDS for the next two years.

Join Kristy Edmunds, artistic and executive director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA for Arts Exchange on Monday, May 12, 5 p.m. in the Royce Hall West Lobby for conversation about collaborations between the center and campus colleagues.

David Heber, UCLA professor emeritus of medicine and founding director of the UCLA Center for Nutrition, was inducted into the 2014 Class of Fellows of the American Society for Human Nutrition.

UCLA social psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff says that big data can help to make the world a better place — not be known only as an invasion of privacy.

UC Walks comes to UCLA on May 21 from 12-1 p.m. on Wilson Plaza.

The UCLA Hammer Museum hosts a discussion with novelist and UCLA professor Mona Simpson and screenwriter/director David O. Russell, May 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Make gifts for mom at 'Kids in the Courtyard: A Mother's Day of Earthly Delights' on Sunday, May 11, from 1 to 4 p.m. in UCLA's Fowler Museum courtyard.

UCLA professor emeritus Howard Suber has played a pivotal role in the creation of key programs in UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, including the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Producer's Program, which has helped launched many a Hollywood career.

Candidates for the State Senate's 26th district, which represents UCLA, will take part in a forum on May 16 at 6 p.m. at Korn Convocation Hall.

Using objective visual characteristics could help increase the accuracy of fingerprint identification and help labs assess which print comparisons might require special care.

"Lyrics From Lockdown: One Man. One Mic. 40 Characters" by acclaimed actor, author and hip-hop artist Bryonn Bain premieres at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall on Tuesday, May 6, 8 p.m.

Students, staff and alumni helped prepare the soil for new trees, flower and shrubs in the garden around the historic towers.

Kathleen L. Komar, UCLA professor of comparative literature, will receive the 2014 Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Leadership from the UC Academic Council and the Assembly of the Academic Senate.

Sarah Stein, UCLA professor of history, has published a new book about the marginalization of Jewish communities in southern Algeria by French authorities.

The findings of a study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research contradict the perception that undocumented immigrants will overburden U.S. emergency departments and health providers.

Before Angela Davis taught her first college course at UCLA 45 years ago, the UC Board of Regents tried to fire her because she was a member of the Communist Party. Now she’s returning to teach at UCLA as a Regents’ Lecturer and Distinguished Professor Emerita.

UCLA professor of bioengineering, electrical engineering and surgery Dr. Warren Grundfest has been named the winner of the Pierre Galletti Award by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

In a new book, a UCLA historian explores the vast network of social clubs that helped Japanese-American girls navigate the prejudice and exclusion that they faced in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1950.