"Ampersand," the bi-weekly e-newsletter from the UCLA Graduate of Education and Information Studies, has been recognized as a best practice in the western United States by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education CASE as part of the ...

Three UCLA medical students have started an outreach group to attend community events and assist people who want to learn more about and sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Dr. Larry Brilliant received the UCLA Medal on Monday, March 3, for his landmark contributions to public health and his deep commitment to making the world a healthier and better place. From the left are Chancellor Gene Block, Dr. Brilliant,...

Becky Barber and Lyolya Hovhannisyan founded the UCLA chapter of Flying Samaritans in 2013. With volunteer doctors and other students, they bring quality medical care to Tijuana's Colonia Margarita Moran.

Kevin Aiello, executive chef of UCLA's Bruin Plate dining hall, pedals 16 miles from Manhattan Beach to Westwood and then back again on his electric bike every day. It's helped him cope with diabetes.

The UCLA alumnus will also receive UCLA's highest honor, the UCLA Medal, which previously has been awarded to such luminaries President Bill Clinton, basketball coach John Wooden, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and UCLA alumna and astronaut Anna Lee Fisher.

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA. She is the past chair of the history department and past chair of Afro-American Studies. Her books include the award-winning "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and...

The researchers, the first to discover the combination of mechanisms that formed the Pacific Plate, used seismic tomography to detect variations in the speed of seismic waves inside the Earth.

Eric Jager's newest nonfiction thriller, "Blood Royal," looks at the brutal murder of King Charles VI's brother, the Duke of Orleans, in Paris in the midst of the Hundred Years' War.

Professor Kal Raustiala has been appointed faculty director of the International Education Office (IEO) in his capacity as associate vice provost for international studies. The IEO is the administrative home for the Education Abroad Program, Summer ...

Even those who had smoked for only a short time showed thinning of the insula, a part of the brain involved in monitoring internal states and making decisions.

Professor Kal Raustiala has been appointed faculty director of the International Education Office in his capacity as associate vice provost for international studies.   The IEO is the administrative home for the Education Abroad Program, Summ

D’Artagnan Scorza is the founder and executive director of the Social Justice Learning Institute in Inglewood, Calif. Scorza obtained a Ph.D. in education from UCLA, along with a B.A. in religion. He is currently a 2013-14 BALLE Fellow....

Adam Winkler is a professor of law at UCLA. He specializes in American constitutional law, and his works concerning the Second Amendment and corporate political speech rights have been quoted and cited in U.S. Supreme Court cases. This op-ed...

Two novel forms of compensation are catching on with employers -- piece rates and gain sharing, both commonly found in manufacturing.

The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the use of lymphatic mapping and sentinel-node biopsy have been a significant advance in the treatment of melanoma.

The UCLA Academic Personnel Office recently announced the recipients of the Unit 18 professional development awards for 2013-14. The awards support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of lecturers, officially known as Unit 18 ...

Ninez Ponce, a leading expert on racial and ethnic disparities in health as well as evidence-based survey research, and the principal investigator of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), has been appointed as an associate director of the ...

Susan Babey, a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and co-director of its Chronic Disease Program, has been invited to participate in the Physical Activity Technical Advisory Committee for the California Strategic ...

Higher temperatures and less rain are likely to lead to more infections in humans in the future, with the disease spreading north into previously unaffected areas as a result of climate change.

The custom graphene coating contains components that generate clot-preventing molecules, which mimic the function of blood vessels.

The findings of a new UCLA-led study could lead to a cost-effective way to make antivirals safer, which is particularly important in resource-poor countries where deadly viruses run rampant.

Light-activated drug delivery holds promise for treating cancer because it give doctors control over precisely when and where in the body drugs are released.