The effects of childhood abuse and a lack of parental affection can last a lifetime, taking a toll both emotionally and physically, UCLA researchers say.

Discussion — in Spanish and English — will focus on the importance of closing the Latino education gap and increasing the number of Latino students who go on to higher education.

  NBC Janet Napolitano assumes the post of UC president today. The University of California today welcomed Janet Napolitano, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and twice-elected governor of Arizona,...

UC President Janet Napolitano issued this letter to the UC community on Monday, Sept. 30, her first day in office.

September 30, 2013   UC COMMUNITY OF LEARNINGDear Friends:It is a privilege and an honor to write to you today, my first day as the twentieth President of the University of California. I am both excited and humbled by the...

UCLA chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels.   The new pathway is intended to replace the natural...

Mavis Wong is a fifth-year UCLA graduate student studying membranes for desalinization of water. This article was originally published in the Huffington Post on Sept. 26, 2013.   All the organizing and emailing for UCLA Volunteer Day...

A consortium of the five University of California medical campuses at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco has been awarded a $12 million grant and designated as a Center for Accelerated Innovations, one of three in the country, by ...

Learn how you can save time and money and be part of UCLA's efforts to create a healthy and sustainable campus. Staff Assembly is hosting a Learn-at-Lunch event to inform you about UCLA Transportation's alternative transportation programs. Commuting...

The new Teaching and Learning Center will bring medical instruction into the 21st century, with a focus on cutting-edge technologies and innovative teaching methods.

America's leading youth choral institution, the National Children’s Chorus (NCC) recently announced a partnership with UCLA. The bi-coastal organization is moving its West Coast rehearsals to Schoenberg Hall, home base for the UCLA Herb Alpert School ...

UCLA School of Law's Kuong Ly wants his immigrant success story to become the norm, not the exception. Kuong Ly wants to be known not only for where he comes from, but for where he’s going.   The second-year UCLA School of Law...

Some big changes and new choices in medical plans are coming to Open Enrollment this fall.UC is offering a revamped menu of plans for 2014 that offers better value and clearer choices, including two new plans: Blue Shield Health Savings Plan, which...

Professor Edythe London,  the Thomas P. and Katherine K. Pike Chair of Addiction Studies at UCLA and an internationally recognized expert in the subject of drug addiction, provided scientific testimony Sept. 18 in Washington, D.C., to the U.S. House ...

Barry Sanders, adjunct professor in communication studies in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and an international attorney, is coming out next month with a new book, "The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games" (Arcadia Publishers, 2013), which offers ...

UCLA's new high-speed microscopy technique, which was inspired by wireless communications, is some 10 times faster than current fluorescence-imaging technologies.

"We have finally found what powers Earth's aurora and radiation belts," said UCLA's Vassilis Angelopoulos. "It took many years ... but it has certainly paid off."

A multimillion-dollar gift from the Melvin and Bren Simon Charitable Foundation is allowing the UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases to provide patients with an innovative home health program; supports new, minimally invasive treatment procedure; and ...

The new endowment will help foster youth focus on their studies by providing grants to cover tutoring, mental health services, summer housing and unforeseen school expenses.

Adam Winkler is a professor at UCLA School of Law and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America." This op-ed appeared in the New York Daily News Sunday, Sept. 22.   Another tragic mass shooting, another round...

Judea Pearl, emeritus professor of computer science in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, is being awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree from Texas A&M University. With the approval of the board of regents of the ...

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's 2013–14 theater season will feature 12 exciting new and returning events, incuding plays, opera and musical theater.

Joined by his older brother in the Class of 2017, Luke Vellotti plans to study math and computer science while he continues using his chess skills to help others.

A campaign will raise private funds for a comprehensive training facility to be located on the west side of Spaulding Field, the practice field for the Bruin football team.