If you’re looking to satisfy your outdoor theater fix, UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library presents its final Arts on the Grounds performance of the summer this weekend. Artistic Director Annie Loui and the Counter-Balance Theater...

Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale has been named to the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Carnesale, who served as chancellor from 1997 to 2006, is a professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and a professor of ...

UCLA researchers received four of the 12 CIRM grants to advance promising discoveries using stem cells; no other institution received more than one.

Hitoshi Abe’s new student center designed for the Vienna University of Economics and Business will be celebrated Sept. 19 along with new campus buildings by other architects, including Zaha Hadid and Peter Cook. The pre-opening ceremony in Vienna will ...

Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, professor of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health, has been appointed the new associate dean for research beginning Sept. 1. Dr. Zhang has served as co-director of the UCLA Alper Center for Environment Genomics ...

UCLA professor Glen MacDonald notes that threats to water supplies and air quality by California's Rim Fire and the earlier Black Forest Fire in Colorado should send city dwellers an important message: even distant wildfire is part of their lives.

Retired general Wesley Clark, the former supreme commander of NATO, led alliance military forces in the Kosovo war in 1999. He is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. This commentary appeared in Zocalo Public...

With bright sun, free food, an amazing singer and a packed dance floor, thousands of UCLA staff members enjoyed the ninth annual All-Staff Picnic.

Parklets, like this one on Spring Street, have the power to enliven a neighborhood, researchers discovered. Despite their tiny size, parklets — those popular pockets of public space that are formed from parking spaces, alleyways...

Today's strike by low-wage employees at fast-food chains across the nation has started a national conversation about the minimum wage. UCLA has experts.

Every morning and afternoon, Patient Business Services employees at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center push back from their computers, step out of their cubicles and move, stretch or dance to music for the duration of one...

Public schools have shown great improvement in getting and keeping students engaged using a program devised by the directors of UCLA's Center for Mental Health in schools.

Beginning next year, consumers walking into a chain restaurant anywhere in the country will get an eyeful — calorie counts next to their favorite triple-triple burger with extra everything. While many jurisdictions, including California,...

Four prominent researchers from UCLA’s Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have received Early Translational research awards totaling approximately $13 million from the California Institute for Regenerative ...

UCLA released this statement Aug. 29 in response to a court ruling concerning Veterans Affairs property and Jackie Robinson Stadium.

Shuhsi Kao, emerita professor in the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, died Aug. 9 in Madison, Wis. from complications of diabetes, heart disease and lung disease. She was 68.

UCLA Prof Tom Smith has conducted research in the West African nation of Cameroon for 30 years, and sees the country's remarkable biodiversity and resources threatened by much-needed but ill-managed economic growth.

Jesse Rissman, assistant professor of psychology, is one of 25 young scientists at research universities across the country chosen to receive grants totaling more than $12 million for basic research to address some of the Department of Defense’s most ...

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. A renowned researcher, blogger, author and...

Professor Hiroshi Motomura was named one of the 26 "best law teachers" in the United States, in the recently published book, "What The Best Law Teachers Do."

Laurence C. Smith is professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography and author of "The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future." This article appeared Tuesday, Aug. 27, in Strategy + Business.   As the ice...

Dr. Clarence H. Braddock III has been appointed vice dean for education in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, beginning Nov. 1. Braddock currently serves as associate dean of undergraduate and graduate medical education at Stanford ...

As a sports fan with expertise in biomechanical engineering, UCLA professor Vijay Gupta marvels at the efficient, effective way the human body is built. But the head wasn’t designed to withstand the shockwaves resulting from a collision with a 250-pound football player wearing a helmet.

Ten members of the octogenarian Taiwanese Grandriders motorcyclers dropped by Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA Friday. UCLA Health System Chief Operating Officer Shannon O'Kelley (left) greeted the riders, who were finishing a...