Nearly 58,000 donors contributed to help UCLA surpass the campus's ambitious $500 million goal, strengthening progress toward a more self-reliant future.

Using an advanced MRI technique, researchers determined that elevated iron levels in the hippocampus were associated with the destruction of myelin and tissue damage characteristic of the disease.

Teresa Barnett and her staff at UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research document the history of Los Angeles and its environs. They have 1,216 interviewees so far on the history of the film industry, mayoral politics, the civil rights movement and institutions like UCLA.

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, to visit sick kids and cancer patients.

Five UCLA graduate students and a recent graduate, led by professor Eric Hoek, traveled by bus, truck, ferry and seaplane then hiked jungle paths in 100-degree heat to reach 16 villages and settlements in Fiji to assess their drinking water.

UCLA Anderson School of Management students produce report that shows sports have a $4.1 billion annual impact on the economy in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Combining presentations by professors and lively discussions, the intensive six-day workshop was organized by the UCLA Latin American Institute.

Urban planning lecturer Ted Bardacke of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will help advise Mayor Eric Garcetti.

This fall, UCLA will welcome 3,000 new transfer students to campus. Orientation helps them feel comfortable.

James Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle East history at UCLA. He is author of "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know."

The awarding of $11.6 million in federal funding from the National Cancer Institute to enable a multidisciplinary group of UCLA scientists to continue their important prostate cancer research is just the latest in a string of "big hits" for the team.

Today marks the beginning of a new era for Ted Bardacke, a lecturer in urban planning. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently named Bardacke to the post of deputy director of the new sustainability office. He begins his new role today....

Haydee Licari, a teacher of Spanish and English as a second language at Dana Middle School in San Pedro, has seen current immigration trends reflected in her classroom. In recent years, her student population has shifted from being primarily of...

Ever wish Los Angeles traffic moved better? It might if more commuters followed the lead of UCLA, where only about half of campus commuters drive alone to work.

The UCLA Specialized Program of Research Excellence team is a multidisciplinary group of scientists striving to find a cure for a cancer that will affect roughly one in six men.

James Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle East history at UCLA. He is author of "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know." This post appeared on The New York Times website Aug. 14 in the Room for Debate section, in which knowledgeable...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded UCLA $450,000 for the third phase of an international project aimed at digitizing many of the world’s oldest surviving texts. Under the direction of the UCLA Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), ...

While on a yearlong sabbatical at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Luisa Iruela-Arispe received some happy news: She had been named the winner of the 2013 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, a $30,000 award...

Twins Aryan and Faraz Behnamjou are among  an estimated 3,000 new transfer students who will be attending UCLA this fall. Even as they were growing up in Tehran, Aryan and Faraz Behnamjou had blue and gold running in their veins. The 20...

                    Farming is flourishing in Los Angeles County, according to a new report by urban planning graduate students at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The first-ever...

Three UCLA School of Law professors, Devon Carbado, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw and Cheryl Harris, co-director of the Critical Race Studies Program, have cowritten an article about how despite a recent federal court decision banning stop-and-frisk...

UCLA is named second among U.S. public universities and 12th among all universities internationally, holding both positions for the third consecutive year.

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? Those are the questions that UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs professor Michael Storper answers in his new ...

Michael Stoll, professor and chair of Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and associate director of the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty at UCLA, has co-authored the new book, "Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?" The book ...

Joel A. Feuer, a partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP since 1989, has been appointed executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. He will join the law school Sept. 1.  "We are delighted to ...