The opportunity to contribute to the lives of children, coupled with stylish haircuts provided free of charge, drew a crowd of Bruins and members of the UCLA community today to UCLA’s 7th annual Locks of Love hair donation event.

Sociology doctoral student Jessica Carbino discusses dating and sex on the "TakePart Live" television show.

Akhil Gupta, director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia and professor of anthropology, has been awarded the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize for 2014 for his book, "Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Poverty in India" ...

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. She is also the faculty director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at the Columbia Law School. She is the co-founder of the African...

Walk and win in "I Heart Walking," presented by UCLA Recreation. Starting today and continuing through Thursday, Feb. 13, join fellow Bruins in lunchtime walks to get refreshed and improve your health. Walks begin each day at 12:10 p.m. and 12:15...

Jordyn Wieber (second from the left) struck gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, along with her teammates on the U.S. women's gymnastics team. She's now a psychology major at UCLA where she trains privately and serves as manager of the UCLA...

Victor Narro is the project director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, which provides leadership programs for Los Angeles’ immigrant workers and internship opportunities for UCLA students. He is the co-editor of the book, "Working for...

Dr. Eugene Washington, vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, has been honored by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute for his service as the first chair of the institute's board of ...

When Mark Speare was asked a year and a half ago whether he thought managers in health sciences might want to take time out of their busy schedules to take a 10-week class at UCLA to learn basic Spanish, the chief human resources officer for...

Professors Chandrashekhar Joshi and Alan N. Willson Jr. are among 67 engineers honored by the prestigious organization.

"We aim to restore patients' independence by returning their ability to type on a keyboard, open doors and transfer themselves between their bed and wheelchair," said UCLA's Daniel Lu.

The UCLA professor of public health and psychiatry answered a few off-the-cuff questions in the Zocalo green room before a panel discussion on how Angelenos eat.

A team from the Fielding School of Public Health is working with East Los Angeles families to help them eat better.

Edward Prescott (far left), the 2004 Nobel laureate in economics, is a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University. Lee Ohanian is a professor of economics at UCLA,...

A UCLA alum draws on his experience to advocate for speaking patients' language and bringing health fairs to the community.

Center for the Art of Performance director Edmunds named 'catalyst in residence' at Pew Center Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, became The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s first...

The UCLA-affiliated clinic and the nonprofit will together provide comprehensive HIV services for low-income and homeless patients on Los Angeles' Westside.

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda will talk about his nation's recovery from the genocide of 1994, its subsequent economic advances and future challenges at a Fe. 12 dinner cohosted by UCLA's Center for World Health and the Los Angeles World...

With more than 60 works in various media, the exhibition examines important and often controversial sacred figures from Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina and the U.S.

UCLA scientists have found that an individual's genetic makeup could increase his or her chance of developing the debilitating disease two- to six-fold after pesticide exposure.

Richard Roll, distinguished professor and the Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance, is one of three winners of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Awards. The awards are made by the Journal of Portfolio Management and named after Peter Bernstein, who ...

Demanding careers… relationship problems… financial struggles … family strife, not to mention the hour you just spent stuck in traffic — to be sure, life can be stressful. But with evidence continuing to mount that carrying all of that mental...

Join UCLA football coach Jim Mora, his coaching staff and the UCLA football team Wednesday, Feb. 5, to celebrate the 2014 Signing Class at Pauley Pavilion. Last season, UCLA had six freshman all-Americans, three of whom topped nearly every...

The authors say couples can have productive conversations with each other about diet and exercise if they focus on motivation, encouragement and support.