The newly opened Wolfgang Puck Express in Ackerman Union offers artisanal food in a bistro setting. Business is cooking as students, staff and faculty flock to Ackerman Union to get a taste of the culinary creativity of Wolfgang Puck. The...

Mike Rose is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the author of several books, most recently “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education," and “Public Education Under...

All donations from the innovative six-week crowd-funding initiative will go directly to supporting UC students with financial need.

When Terry Dunlap arrived at the ER with a massive clot, doctors gave him two choices: open-heart surgery or a new minimally invasive procedure. But there was a catch.

A new system is needed to streamline and strengthen the regulation of groundwater, which makes up nearly a third of the state's water supply, the report argues.

For the fifth year in a row, UCLA School of Law has been named one of the Top 10 Best Law Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine. UCLA Law, which is committed to making a world-class legal education available to students of all ...

John Hawkins, professor emeritus of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been named co-director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP). The organization, which is based in Los Angeles, Honolulu, ...

Milos Ercegovac, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, is the recipient of a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from the department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1975. ...

Salpy Akaragian, director of the international nursing program and nurse credentialing for the UCLA Health System, was honored with a Giving Excellence Meaning Award in the category of Volunteerism and Service by Nurse.com on Aug. 23.  As director of ...

Research by electrical engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan received the 2013 Microscopy Today Innovation Award from the magazine "Microscopy Today" at the Microscopy and Microanalysis conference in Indianapolis in August. The annual award ...

Professor Stefano Soatto has been appointed a 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow for his contributions to dynamic visual processes. Soatto heads up the computer science department's Vision Lab, which has ties to the UCLA ...

Researchers find that nanodiamonds can be a less-invasive and longer-lasting method of administering the proteins that aid in bone growth.

The strategy offers an object lesson for other campus departments battered by the recession and retirements.

Students at the UCLA Community School in L.A.'s Koreatown/Pico-Union neighborhood. Photo by Elena Zhokova. Agnes Cesare, head counselor at UCLA Community School, tells the story of two former students who recently moved out of the school’s...

During elementary school in Ghana, Joseph Asunka and his classmates did their writing in dirt on the school floor. Thanks to his parents and UCLA professor Daniel Posner, he's earning his Ph.D. in political science at UCLA. Good...

Barry O’Neill is a professor of political science, whose work applies game theory to study foreign policy decisions, with a view to preventing war. He is the author of "Honor, Symbols, and War" (University of Michigan Press, 1999), which won the...

The $2 million gift from the Pritzker Family Foundation will help the museum nurture "the next generation of arts audiences, advocates and creative thinkers," said Hammer director Ann Philbin.

Who knew a whisper could be so powerful? Beginning this Thursday, Sept. 19, at 2 p.m. visitors to the UCLA Hammer Museum are invited to participate in KCHUNG Radio’s Whisper Reports, a series of news reports and interviews on subjects such as...

The small, lightweight device, which featuresa a color filter, an external lens and a laser diode, can be fabricated using a 3-D printer.

The honor acknowledges the lasting economic and societal impact of federally funded basic research.

UCLA has been awarded a $250,000 grant from UC to implement a bedside ultrasound training program at several of its medical centers' intensive care units.

The UCLA Department of Art is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this fall, including exhibitions and public lectures.

While the slowly recovering U.S. economy will not reach normal levels by historical standards, it will be noticeably better than in recent years, UCLA economists predict.

New faculty have expertise that help redirect UCLA’s approach to Japanese studies, to include study of anime, manga and other Japanese popular culture.

Nearly 100 people gathered on campus at UCLA to mark the official launch of construction on the much-anticipated facility, which is scheduled to open in 2016.