The UCLA researchers' findings counter years of conventional wisdom that a biosensor can be made more sensitive simply by reducing the diameter of the nanowires that make up the device.

Becoming a formal department would bolster UCLA's scholarship and opportunities in African American studies.

The gift will support research and policy fellows; fund student scholarships and a public service fellowship; support outreach, events and speaker series; and provide resources to attract faculty.

UCLA law professor Katherine Stone studies the erosion of the middle class and the changing nature of employment.

Professor Thomas Smith of the UCLA Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology will hold a lecture about the Center's efforts of conservation in Central Africa.

Each year, UCLA staff and faculty touch the lives of thousand of people through the annual campaign for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

Marjorie Eloise Lund Crump, who did significant work in public service and entrepreneurship and who, together with her husband Ralph, was a major supporter of UCLA, died of natural causes on April 1 at her home in Trumbull, Conn.   Over

CTI-Pathology/UCLA Health will operate the first lab of its kind in China, offering genetic and molecular diagnostics and other sophisticated tests; UCLA pathologists will also provide training for Chinese lab specialists.

UCLA staff members enhance their skills, advance their careers in year-long program from Campus Human Resources.

Applications for the 2014 Larry L. Sautter Award honoring innovation in information technology are now being accepted through May 16, 2014.

California Casualty, which offers preferred rates to UC employees, is lowering insurance rates for California homeowners and renters, effective April 1, 2014.

After signing agreements with Peking University, Fudan University and Nanjing Medical University, UCLA will host a forum addressing public health issues in China.

Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, has published a new book, "The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850."  

UCLA professor Edward Alpers' new book, "The Indian Ocean in World History," explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day.

Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA professor of law, has been honored with the 2014 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

UCLA associate professor Katsuya Hirano's new book, "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan," explores the evolution of Japan's radical transformation.

Mona Simpson looks back on her precarious financial status at UC Berkeley and her beginnings as a writer.

UCLA animation professor Chuck Sheetz recently directed an episode of "The Simpsons," which aired on Fox on March 16.

Tony Chan, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics and president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Ira Kurtz, a UCLA professor of medicine, has received a $3 million gift from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation to fund research on the structural properties of key proteins in the kidney that affect its function in health and disease.

Dr. Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the UCLA Longevity Center, was appointed president-elect of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.

Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA professor of statistics and computer science, and Alan Yuille, UCLA professor of statistics, have won the 2013 PAMI Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award.

Students who learned that they'd been admitted to UCLA, selected from a record 86,000 applicants, shared their excitement on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks.

University of California President Janet Napolitano and staff employees from across the UC system will have a one-hour online conversation about campus climate survey results, compensation, benefits and more.

UCLA's Excellence in Leadership Award is given each year by Campus Human Resources in partnership with UCLA's Administrative Management Group.