The two-and-a-half-year UCLA study found that the protein expression of a typical gene is influenced by many more genetic variants than previously thought.

Researchers also found that black patients tend to fare worst after diagnosis, while Asians and Hispanics survive the longest with the disease.

The online master’s degree program at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been ranked the No. 2 online engineering program in the country by U.S. News and World Report.   UCLA is the highest-ranked...

  There’s something smelly about researcher Christina Agapakis’ recent work — which is just as she intended.Emitting odors that range from fragrant to fetid are nearly a dozen one-of-a-kind, designer cheeses that Agapakis, a...

Ali Sayed, professor of electrical engineering and director of the UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory, has been awarded the 2013 Meritorious Service Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society for ...

Dariush Divsalar, UCLA adjunct professor of electrical engineering, has been selected for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Alexander Graham Bell Medal, for, "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of channel ...

Camping out in comfort. Students stake their claim to the best seats for the Jan. 9 men's basketball game between UCLA and No. 1-ranked Arizona. Photo by Christelle Snow, UCLA. Several hundred students camped out (one group even had a big-screen...

Jarrahi is among 102 scientists and engineers to receive this year's award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on researchers in the early stages of their careers.

Three young UCLA researchers in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior have been named the 2014 Friends of the Semel Institute Scholars. Tara Peris, Dr. Felipe Jain and Erin Kelly (shown left to right in photo) will receive funding to ...

Telling a crop-fertilizing strain from its potential bioterrorist-agent cousin is tricky, said researchers whose bioinformatics analysis shed light on the Burkholderia bacteria genus.

"Many of these are the first rocks that formed anywhere in the solar system," curator John Wasson said of the gallery's 1,500 meterorite specimens.

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...

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. surgeon general's first report on the hazards of lighting up, there's good news about nurses who smoke: There are a lot less of them.

Louis Gomez, chair of the UCLA Department of Education, has been elected to the National Academy of Education. A professor in the Urban Schooling Division and the Principal Leadership Division at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information ...

Lee Baca, Los Angeles County sheriff since 1998, is expected to announce his retirement amid a federal investigation into abuse and misconduct by his department at Los Angeles County jails. UCLA has faculty with related expertise.

Dr. Jody Heymann is dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and distinguished professor of epidemiology, medicine and public policy at UCLA. Prior to this, she held a Canada Research Chair in...

While some oft-cited labor statistics suggest that the average American worker will have as many as seven careers over his or her lifetime, many researchers say that number is implausibly high. But Dr. James I. Ausman has come close.   In the...

Fowler Out Loud will feature a free concert by jazz trio The Chrio on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. The Chrio is led by jazz studies major Harmony Chua, with bass from Nashir Janmohamed and drums by David Laudicina. The Chrio will improvise on themes...

Join the UCLA Film and Television Archive in celebrating the career of Emmy-award winning director Robert Butler at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24. Butler, who directed pilot episodes of such series as "Hogan’s Heroes," "Star Trek"...

What is the role of art in the public sphere? The destruction of Diego Rivera’s mural for the RCA Building in New York City is one of the best known examples of censorship in the United States.

The research, showing that we perceive risk-seeking individuals to be taller and stronger than those who are risk-averse, may have implications for law enforcement, the prison system and the military.

Did you end up enrolled in the wrong medical plan for 2014?   UC made significant changes to its medical plan offerings for 2014, and some faculty and staff who did not make selections during Open Enrollment may have been defaulted to a plan...

Doctors caring for Ariel Sharon, the 85-year-old former general and prime minister of Israel who has been in a vegetative state since suffering a brain hemorrhage in 2006, say the leader is nearing death as his organs fail. UCLA experts can discuss Sharon's military and political legacy, as well as his physical condition.

Dr. Brad Spellberg is a professor of medicine at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is the co-author of "Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them."...

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block issued a statement Jan. 2 regarding the American Studies Association vote endorsing an academic boycott of Israel.