Members of UCLA women's soccer team added some important accessories to a bronze bear statue outside Gov. Jerry Brown's office at the State Capitol, where they were honored Monday for winning the team's first-ever NCAA championship. UCLA head coach...

UCLA has been ranked the nation's No. 6 "best-value" public university by the Princeton Review, based on an analysis of academics, cost and financial aid.

With the realization that art education can complement math and science learning, classrooms have begun to add an “A” to “STEM,” (science, technology, engineering, math) creating the much more active noun of “STEAM.” Among the faculty at UCLA’s...

A $1.2 million gift from the foundation of late UCLA professor and Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger will enable UCLA to offer fellowships to the world's best physics students.

The findings could be an important development in understanding how to address the negative mental health effects of discrimination against transgender people.

Are you a UCLA employee interested in sending your child to a great neighborhood school close to campus? Then apply for the 2013-14 school year in UCLA's Together In Education In Neighborhood Schools (TIE-INS) program by the March 1 deadline. All...

Ethan N. Elkind researches and writes on environmental law with a joint appointment at the UCLA and UC Berkeley schools of law. He is the author of the new book "Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the...

Meditate, practice yoga, laugh, play and change your life during UCLA Recreation’s Stress Less Week. On Meditation Monday, Jan. 27, 12-1 p.m. join a guided meditation at the Pauley Pavilion Club, or movement meditation with Tai Chi at UNEX...

"Reclaiming the Right-of-Way," a comprehensive toolkit for creating small, urban "parklets" from parking spaces, alleyways and other underutilized spaces, will receive a National Planning Achievement Award for Best Practice, presented by the American ...

An authors series showcasing topics on African-American history and experience, a panel discussion highlighting student diversity in higher education, artistic and cultural exhibitions, lectures, and a symposium on race in Hollywood are among the...

James Lockhart, a UCLA emeritus professor who was regarded as one of the most original, accomplished scholars in the field of early Latin American history, died Jan. 17 in Bakersfield surrounded by his family.

UCLA will present author talks, panel discussions, lectures, and cultural and artistic exhibitions on African-American and African history, culture and experiences this February.

Hammer curator to research artists in North Africa, the Middle East   Aram Moshayedi, curator for UCLA's Hammer Museum, has been named a curatorial fellow by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Moshayedi will research emerging...

Associate professor of finance Andrea Eisfeldt of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and co-author Dimitris Papanikolaouk of the Kellogg School of Management have received the 2013 Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of ...

With about 70,000 people and the water needs of a small city, UCLA can take small steps toward conservation during California’s drought that will add up to big savings.

By growing larger, rangeomorphs, fern-like organisms that existed on the sea floor some 580 million years ago, were able to access nutrient-carrying ocean flows.

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, adjunct professor of ethnomusicology, filmmaker and specialist in Indian music, has been awarded a 2013 award for her "Contribution to the Cause of Indian Music by an Overseas-Resident Personality." The award will be formally ...

For the past 40 years, Maryanne Horowitz has tried to attend at least one event a month at UCLA's Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies even as she climbed the tenure ladder, raised three children and taught up to three history courses at a...

Rebecca Allen, professor of design media arts, has been selected by the editors of Fast Company magazine to be one of their Most Creative People in Business 1000. "We have curated what we believe is the ultimate club of business thought-leaders," ...

The UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery presented 2014 Luminary Awards Wednesday to honorees at an inaugural event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Professor and department chair Dr. Gerald Berke and singer...

UCLA will play host to "Big River and Beyond" at Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, Feb. 1, 9:15-11:30 a.m. Cast members of the Broadway revival of "Big River," with help from UCLA students and faculty, will perform selected numbers from the Tony...

Leaders of California's three public higher education systems jointly addressed the UC Board of Regents on Jan. 22 and discussed their plans for strengthening implementation of the state's Master Plan for Higher Education.

Why are so many Americans in prison? Between 1975 and 2007, the American incarceration rate increased nearly fivefold, a historic increase that puts the United States in a league of its own among advanced economies.

The University of California Office of the President day announced Wednesday the opening of the application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the regents. The position's term runs July 2014 through June 2016. Applications will be...

Kimberly Freeman, an alumna who received her M.B.A. in 2002, is UCLA Anderson School’s new assistant dean for diversity initiatives and community relations, Dean Judy Olian announced recently. Freeman comes to Anderson from the Southern California Gas ...