Rebeca Mendez, a professor in the design | media arts department at UCLA, has created public art pieces for the new Pico Rivera Library. The installments will be unveiled at the grand opening of the library, which is already gaining buzz for its ...

Kal Raustiala is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. Raustiala's research focuses on international law and politics and on intellectual property. Christopher Jon Sprigman is a professor at the New York University School of Law and...

Ultrafine particulate concentrations were found to be highest near Santa Monica Airport, followed by freeway-laced Boyle Heights and downtown Los Angeles.

  Santa Paws made a visit today to the James West Alumni Center where dogs — some wearing their Yuletide best — gathered to celebrate the holidays. The furry, four-footed guests were brought to work by some UCLA...

Faculty at the Fielding School of Public Health are working with community members in L.A.'s Boyle Heights to transform junk-food peddling markets into healthy food oases.

Members of the championship Bruin women's soccer team that brought in UCLA's historic 110th NCAA title got to savor their victory on NBC's "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.

Lee E. Ohanian, a UCLA professor of economics and director of UCLA’s Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research, provided expert testimony Dec. 12 before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. Ohanian testified on the history of ...

Hundreds of distinguished alumni, faculty and students gathered Dec. 2 for the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate’s 2013 Winter Forum, giving attendees the unique opportunity to hear from former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Dr. Walton Li, a UCLA alumnus and an internationally recognized specialist and leader in the field of ophthalmology, has made a $2 million gift to create the Walton Li Chair in Cornea and Uveitisat the Stein Eye Institute. This chair will support the ...

The American health care system ranked 22nd out of 27 high-income industrialized nations in terms of its ability to turn health dollars spent into extended lives.

The study pinpoints the progenitor cells of human cartilage and provides a biological roadmap for potential therapies to repair cartilage defects and damage from osteoarthritis.

UC Berkeley biologist Randy Schekman, who graduated from the UCLA College of Letters and Science in 1971, received the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies joined the Los Angeles Unified School District and nonprofit Code.org to collectively launch the Los Angeles segment of National Computer Science Education Week at the UCLA Community School Dec. 10.

While spending on higher education research and development in all fields remained flat for fiscal year 2012-13, UCLA investigators ended the year with the eighth highest total among the top-performing research institutions.

The annual survey ranks universities based on student-to-faculty ratio, graduation rate, test scores of incoming freshmen, tuition rates, availability of financial aid and other factors.

Kimberly Kessler, whose food policy background includes extensive experience working on issues of nutrition, food access and food system sustainability, has been named the policy and special programs director of the Resnick Program for Food Law and ...

Mark Wise, a former infantry platoon leader who was wounded in 2009 by an IED in Afghanistan and underwent reconstructive surgery with UCLA’s Operation Mend, has completed his 200-mile trek to the South Pole along with 12 of his...

Adam Winkler is a professor in the UCLA School of Law who specializes in American constiutional law. This op-ed appeared originally in the New Republic on Dec. 5.      As 2013 comes to a close, gun advocates can count up...

Laurence Lavelle, a senior researcher and distinguished lecturer in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, recently added three textbooks to the list of those he has co-authored. His newest publications are the sixth editions of "Chemical ...

UCLA researchers hope “face-to-face” checkups by computer will free patients, especially low-income ones, from having to travel to appointments, which can be a barrier to care.

When a young Ugandan shared his dream of starting the first hospital in his district to provide free health care services, a UCLA undergraduate student chose to help make it a reality.   And UCLA supported that choice.   UCLA...

Mike Rose is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.” This piece was the first of three on teacher education...

Despite an agreement between the United States and Russia to put the Assad regime’s chemical arsenal under international control, Syria’s brutal civil war rages on, with thousands more killed and millions more made refugees. On Dec. 12...

Sondra Hale, an emerita professor in the departments of anthropology and gender studies and affiliated faculty member of UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, delivered the keynote address at the Congress of the International ...

Dr. Lee Todd Miller was honored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for his outstanding contributions to academic medicine. The AAMC presented him with its Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, which recognizes a ...