UCLA researchers found that by attaching drugs to the tiny particles and injecting them directly into tumors, the drugs' efficiency was boosted and damage to surrounding tissue was minimized.

This is the latest installment of "After Hours" — a series about faculty and staff who balance their work lives with side projects or fascinating hobbies.     Name: Shalonda Martin   Day job: Director of Gift & Data...

An interdisciplinary team of faculty members has been awarded $1,335,074 from the California Energy Commission to conduct research on zero-net energy building construction. The researchers include (shown in photo, clockwise from upper left) Professor ...

Professor Neil Netanel, Pete Kameron Professor of Law, will be honored with the 2013 IP Vanguard Award by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California. The award is presented to outstanding legal professionals who are ...

First-time documentary filmmakers and School of Theater, Film and Television recent graduates Battiste Fenwick and Esther Julie-Anne are the first married couple to show two separate projects in the same year at the Telluride Film Festival.

Justin Perkinson wasn’t supposed to be a filmmaker. All signs pointed to medicine, like so many family members before him.

An Institute of Medicine committee chaired by UCLA's Patricia Ganz says urgent changes are needed to improve cancer care as baby boomers age and new therapies arise.

The campus earned the No. 23 spot among all U.S. universities and was named the No. 2 public university in the country in the closely watched annual survey.

Justin Perkinson, a UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate student is the eighth 2014 Fulbright Program fellow from TFT since 1993.

Lukowa Kidima, a linguist in the UCLA Library who also taught in the department of linguistics, passed away on August 21, 2013, at the UCLA Medical Center following a stroke. He was 63.

The UCLA-RAND study found that one of every 10 patients in the ICU received care that wouldn't improve or save their lives, at a cost of approximately $4,000 a day.

President Obama is attempting to win congressional approval for a U.S. military strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Russia and Iran have warned against any Western intervention in the conflict. UCLA has experts.

Looking for a free art and history lesson of contemporary Europe? You’ve got just a couple of weeks left to get to the Fowler Museum to see photographs of the futuristic-looking, yet dilapidated spomeniks ― Serbo-Croatian for monuments —...

UCLA Athletics is saddened to learn of the tragic loss of football player Nick Pasquale, who passed away early Sunday morning after being struck by a car in his hometown of San Clemente.

The new type of IBS, which follows a bout of diverticulitis, may help scientists get closer to the causes of the condition. "It's such a common condition, and there may be different flavors," they say.

With renewed funding from the NSF and EPA, UC CEIN continues to pioneer new strategies to more quickly and reliably gauge the potential toxicity of nanomaterials.

John Laslett (far left) is a research professor of history and author of "Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010." Chris Tilly is a professor of urban planning and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and...

Most of what you think you know about the 2012 presidential race is wrong, suggests a forthcoming book by political scientists at UCLA and George Washington University. They argue in "The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election" that the race was influenced more by the economy than any other factor.

Junior Steven Ng started a non-profit to sell bracelets he designed to raise money for famine relief.

When Peter Clayson was an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University majoring in psychology and Russian, he did scholarly research on the brain science behind cognitive and emotional processing — work that included participating in two...

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alums Battiste Fenwick and Esther Julie-Anne became the first married couple in Telluride’s 40-year history to show two separate projects in the same year. First-time documentary filmmakers and...

By engaging at-risk men in Facebook discussion groups, researchers saw a boost in HIV awareness and prevention. The approach, they said, could work for other diseases as well.

Dr. Marvin Ament, professor emeritus in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will receive the lifetime achievement Harold S. Diehl Award on Sept. 19 from the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he earned his medical degree in 1963. ...

Difficulty swallowing is a common side effect of radiation treatment, but a UCLA study shows that following a regimen of swallowing exercises can significantly minimize the problem.

When government, the media and the public try to make sense of drug policy in America, the expert they turn to is Mark Kleiman, public policy professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Kleiman became the go-to voice on this complex and controversial topic almost by accident.