Los Angeles, is a city of two food worlds that collide at the Grand Central Market downtown. Thinking L.A., sponsored by UCLA, took up the topic.

UCLA's Pilipino community and many campus organizations have banded together this week to collect donations on Bruin Walk as well as in north and south campus for disaster relief for Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda victims in the Philippines. On Friday, Nov....

UCLA welcomes a California State Auditor review of campus compliance with Title IX requirements.

Spiritual belief often plays a significant role alongside the miracles of modern medicine as patients struggle to deal with life-threatening illnesses. At UCLA’s two hospitals, doctors, nurses and chaplains work as an integrated care team....

Ronald C. White Jr., a visiting professor of history at UCLA and a fellow at the Huntington Library, is the author of the book, "A. Lincoln: A Biography." This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 17. The celebration of...

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has awarded associate professor Hilary Coller of molecular, cell and development biology, a New Idea Award, a grant program designed to identify novel research strategies with high potential for significant impact on ...

Kids with anxiety disorders can perceive neutral information as threatening depending on how it is presented, and when they do, their medial prefrontal cortex kicks into high gear.

Men with prostate cancer who eat a low-fat diet with fish oil supplements have lower levels of pro-inflammatory substances in their blood and, potentially, less aggressive disease, UCLA researchers say.

William Marotti, an associate professor of history and a scholar with the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, recently published a book, "Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan," that has garnered attention from ...

For Old World primates, the variety and complexity of their facial colors and patterns play a major role in helping them identify members of their own species and communicate with one another.

The Hammer Museum will be the location for a scent concert performed by the Los Angeles-based Institute for Art and Olfaction doing its interpretation of a scent concert put on in 1902 by German Japanese poet, artist and critic Sadakichi...

Dr. David Feinberg was recognized Nov. 11 by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of "300 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know." Feinberg is the president of the UCLA Health System and associate vice chancellor for health sciences. He is a ...

The grant from the California Energy Commission will help to identify and develop new materials, methodologies and software tools for zero-net energy buildings.

Suzanne M. Bianchi, a UCLA sociologist who helped define the field of family demography with her research into the dramatic changes in the American family in the latter half of the 20th century, died Nov. 4. She was 61.

A major new environmental research project is the first of UCLA's six Grand Challenges, which aim to address pressing societal issues through multidisciplinary innovations and breakthroughs.

"The Science of Making Friends," by UCLA's Elizabeth Laugeson, teaches social skills to teens and young adults with autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression and other social impairments.

Bianchi, who helped define the field of family demography with her groundbreaking research, died Nov. 4, a short time after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 61.

Lynn Vavreck is an associate professor of political science and communication studies at UCLA. John Sides is an associate professor of political science at George Washington University.They are the authors of “The Gamble: Choice and Chance in...

The UCLA scientists' technique uses two types of nanoparticles, the first clearing a path into tumor cells for the second, which delivers chemotherapy drugs.

Chancellor Gene Block has joined University of California President Janet Napolitano and nine other chancellors in urging California's congressional delegation to repeal sequestration and pass a FY2014 federal budget that strongly supports the...

Robin Scott Fisher, an internationally known UCLA neuroscientist and anatomist who made seminal contributions to understanding the development and function of the central nervous system, died of a heart attack on Nov. 11 in Philadelphia. He was 61.

Christine L. Borgman, professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has been awarded the University of Pittsburgh's 225th Anniversary Medallion. The honor commemorates the ...

Thirty years ago, the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. contacted the UCLA School of Nursing with an intriguing request: Would the school be interested in providing services to homeless adults and children staying at the mission?

Wolves were probably domesticated by European hunter–gatherers and gradually evolved into dogs that became household pets, a new study suggests.

Elizabeth Laugeson, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, has published a new book to guide parents in helping their socially challenged children make and keep friends. “The ...