The findings may help doctors learn how to time the delivery of drugs to battle glioblastoma and, eventually, other types of cancer.

José Luiz Passos, UCLA professor of Brazilian literature and culture, has been awarded two of the Portuguese-speaking world's most prestigious awards for his novel, "O sonâmbulo amador (The Amateur Sleepwalker)." Passos was awarded the Portugal ...

“This is the worst pain ever!” screams a woman in the delivery ward, her eyelids fluttering as the baby’s skull crowns between her legs.

UCLA's Hammer Museum recently acquired 25 works by familiar and new artists for its contemporary collection. The additions come from Joel Wachs, a former Los Angeles councilman and the current president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual ...

The new Edie and Lew Wasserman Building has been officially awarded Leadership in Energy and Environment Design Gold certification for the core and shell portion of the project.

To visually capture life’s unpredictability, UCLA professor Casey Reas creates stunning art using a computer language he co-created.

William Cockrum, an adjunct professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and member of the school's Board of Visitors, has given $5 million to support the school and the Harold and Pauline Price School for Entrepreneurial Studies. The money will ...

Dr. Bradley R. Straatsma, a professor emeritus of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, will receive the Bernardo Streiff Medal at the World Congress of Ophthalmology in Tokyo, Japan, in April of 2014. The Streiff Medal is presented every four years to an ...

The comprehensive English-language tome, compiled by UCLA's Robert E. Buswell Jr. and a colleague, is the first to cover terms from all the religion's canonical languages and traditions.

Dr. Gary Holland received the Award for Excellence in Education from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. Holland is a professor and ophthalmologist in the Jules Stein Eye Institute. The awards for education are given out based on peer review and ...

As experts on immigration’s impact on children and youth, Professor Carola and Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, both of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, presented two talks at the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences at the Casina Pio IV in Vatican City.

The UCLA women’s soccer team won the 110th NCAA national championship in the history of the campus on Sunday afternoon in North Carolina. It's the first national title for women's soccer at UCLA.

The UCLA women’s soccer team won its first NCAA championship in program history on Sunday afternoon, defeating the Florida State Seminoles, 1-0, in overtime.   The title represents UCLA’s 110th NCAA championship in school history,...

Robert Fink, UCLA professor of musicology, was honored with the Outstanding Publication Award from the Popular Music Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory for his article, "Goal Directed Soul: Analyzing Rhythmic Teleology in African American ...

Dr. Lance Fogan, professor of neurology at the Devid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has published a novel, titled "Dings." "Dings" is a medical mystery novel told from the point of view of a mother who must identify the condition responsible for ...

Of the gift, $4 million will support fellowships for entrepreneurial M.B.A. students, while the remaining $1 million will help fund fellowships for finance students in the M.B.A. program.

So few Angelenos voted this year that Eric Garcetti was elected mayor with just 222,300 votes — the same number it took to get elected mayor in the 1930s, when L.A. was half its present size. At a “Thinking L.A.” event Thursday...

Dr. Joseph L. Demer received the Senior Honor Award at the annual meeting of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Demer delivered several presentations at the conference on topics such as eye care for autistic patients, ...

UCLA Summer Institutes was presented with the Creative and Innovative Award for the Most Outstanding Credit Program from the North American Association of Summer Sessions (NAASS). The association seeks to highlight the importance of curriculum ...

In the spirit of old-time radio, the UCLA Hammer Museum will immerse its guests in a radio mystery play as they walk through the museum. "Behind the Stucco Façade of the Sickle Museum" is being put on by public engagement artist-in-residence...

Adam Winkler is a professor in the UCLA School of Law who specializes in American constiutional law. This op-ed appeared in the Daily Beast on Dec. 5.        In his muckracking classic, "Other People’s...

UCLA geography professor Michael Shin’s online class “Introduction to Geographic Information Systems” draws hundreds of students, who are majoring in many different fields, yet eager to learn about geospatial data without having to leave the comfort...

The economy is growing despite the self-inflicted wounds of the government shutdown and the effects of the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, UCLA economists say.

Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon of UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies will receive the Miriam Matthews Award on Dec. 10. Hunt and Ramon won the award for their work editing the book "Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and ...