Come to the Charles Young Research Library from 4 to 6 p.m. on Dec. 11 to hear a riveting talk about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from The New York Times bestselling author James Swanson. Swanson will discuss his latest book...

Staffer honored for her work to build and reform health care systems abroad Salpy Akaragian, co-founder of the Armenian International Medical Fund (AIM Fund) and director of UCLA’s international nursing programs and nurse credentialing, was...

The UCLA Nathanson Family Resilience Center was awarded a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. This grant will continue the ...

Karen Miller, associate clinical professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, received a 2013 Exceptional Educator Award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology’s Women in Leadership Committee. The award ...

David Gere is a professor in the world arts and cultures/dance department and director of the Art and Global Health Center at UCLA. His essay appeared on the Zocalo Public Square website on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day.   Twenty-five years ago,...

During a recent visit to UCLA, Schekman spoke about his passion for science, his memories of UCLA and why he's decided to donate his Nobel money to the University of California.

Los Angeles County has a rare opportunity to make sweeping and necessary improvements to the way it rehabilitates incarcerated youth as it moves forward with a project to replace Camp Vernon J. Kilpatrick, a dilapidated all-boys camp in the hills...

The UCLA Bruins spent Thanksgiving before their victory over USC serving up a feast for about 500 homeless individuals and their families. Their guests receive services from the Veterans Administration and PATH, an organization that...

Scientists could use the knowledge that prostate cancer stem cells can change their physical appearance to develop drugs that more effectively target the disease.

 Catherine Opie, whose photographs have been exhibited in some of the finest art museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Japan, will soon be showing her newest work to people on the run.

Only about 1 percent of patients with diverticulosis -- not the widely cited 25 percent from previous studies -- will develop the condition known as diverticulitis, which causes pain and infection in the abdomen.

  Dirna Mayasari, who is getting her master's at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, spent much of this past summer in Myanmar working with a refugee community. In the video, Mayasari, who was a medical student at the time,...

UCLA's Laurence C. Smith and other leading climate scholars call for the development of an early warning system to help society better anticipate the potentially calamitous impacts of climate change.

The facility will provide highly specialized care, advanced treatment and leading-edge technologies to treat spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes and other acute conditions.

Poet Sabrina Youmans will read from her work, “Pacific Standard Time,” this Thursday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. at UCLA's Powell Library. Youmans, who is on staff in UCLA Athletics as a senior learning specialist supporting student athletes, will be joined...

'Street Talk' students (left to right) Dai Jung Chung, Jiu Hua Zhang, Hussain Alsherhri and Reema Aldahlawi. Photo by Celia Soudry. Hussain Alsherhri’s first slang encounter after arriving at UCLA from Saudi Arabia was with his...

UCLA researchers have found that older HIV-positive men who have sex with men and who smoke are at much higher risk of being infected with the HPVs that most often cause anal cancer.

About 100 kidney transplant recipients and their donors — all participants in various living donor transplant "chains" — reunited today at Reagan UCLA Medical Center for a holiday celebration of giving and receiving the gift of life. The...

Joyce Appleby is an emerita professor of history at UCLA and the author of "Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination." This piece appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 1.      Senators have long...

Students at predominantly Latino Roosevelt High School are reaching beyond their own neighborhood and culture to study the language, music and traditional theater of China through the Chinese Alive! program.   A...

Young Latinas who have Latino teachers and counselors as role models and participate in extracurricular activities in high school have a much better chance of educational success.

Children who spent time in an orphanage also tended to display "indiscriminate friendliness," an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers.

Parents who are poor and members of a minority group experienced more financial stress and more stress from major life events than parents who are either just poor or just part of a minority group.

Thousands of fans set the stage this week's UCLA-USC game with the annual "Beat 'SC" bonfire and rally, where the Bruin faithful promised to "burn Troy to the ground."

Radiologists are studying an extremely rare 14-foot, 250-pound oarfish that washed ashore near San Diego last month to trace the evolution of its skeleton and unique swimming style.