Feuer, a partner at the firm of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, has handled a broad range of complex business law and corporate governance matters. He begins his tenure on Sept. 1.

Source: Los Angeles Sports Council Earlier this year city officials announced that Los Angeles would try to become the site for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But to win the right to host the city’s third Olympics, L.A. boosters must first...

As students listen in, engineering professor Eric Hoek, (center in plaid shirt) advise Fijian villagers on how water can be transported safely from a spring deep in the jungle. Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and...

The downloadable report and map, which details more than 1,200 urban agriculture sites, will aid city planners, food policy advocates and local growers.

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin basketball standout, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Tuesday to visit sick kids and cancer patients. Farmar signed autographs, gave out gift bags and posed with patients, like Chico, 9,...

Teresa Barnett and her staff of three at UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research have their work cut out for them: Document the history of Los Angeles and its environs. Since its founding in 1959, the center has amassed oral histories...

UCLA environmental economist Magali Delmas, a professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and at the Anderson School of Management, won an award Monday for her research showing that employees at 'green' companies are 16 percent ...

The experimental treatment may also decrease the need for liver or intestinal transplants and lower the risk mortality in young patients suffering intestinal failure, UCLA researchers say.

"These findings suggest that even men with prostate cancer can take control of their disease and moderate its aggressiveness through diet and lifestyle choices," said UCLA's Lenore Arab.

The positive effects of creating websites and blogging were particularly strong for women in active medical treatment, most of whom had metastatic disease, UCLA researchers said.

The research could help show that saliva can be used to detect life-threatening diseases, including diabetes and cancers of the pancreas, breasts, ovaries and stomach.

Nina Shapiro, a professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and director of pediatric otolaryngology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the author of "Take a Deep Breath: Clear the Air for the Health of Your...

Devoted Bruin fans Peter Heumann and Howie Neftin donated $36,000 to the UCLA Blood & Platelet Center — proceeds from the 2013 Volkswagen City of Angels Fun Ride. The charity ride has raised more than $100,000 over the past three years for the ...

Charles Knobler, UCLA Research Professor and a former chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as a member of the 2013 class of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Fellows. The Fellows are nominated by their peers and ...

Spend a day picking the brains of screenwriters and creative writers who now teach the art of writing. The UCLA Extension free-to-all Writers Faire will be held in the Young Hall courtyard at UCLA on August 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This festive day...

The grassy slopes of the Fowler’s UCLA Arts Council Amphitheater will be the place to be Sunday from 4-5 p.m. to see Noah and the MegaFauna, a nine-piece band that mixes indie folk with jazz and big band swing to create music...

UCLA School of Law has received a two-year, $225,000 grant to establish a program that would aid low-income residents in downtown and southeast Los Angeles by having law students assist them with their medical-related legal needs. The grant from the ...

Leaders of the Working Smarter initiative, which already has saved the University of California more than $289 million, took a big step forward recently when they and counterparts from California State University recently hosted a conference to...

Professor Ellen Carpenter of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine is the new director of the Neuroscience Undergraduate Interdepartmental Program in the Life Sciences Division of the ...

Easily accessible through an online app, UCLA-developed research maps help neuroscientists quickly scan what is already known in their field and plan their next study.

The biennial survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the largest amd most comprehensive state health survey in the nation.

UCLA is tied for first with 21 other campuses as one of the most sustainable universities in the country, after receiving a perfect score in the 2014 edition of the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll. The list includes three other UCs.

With as many accolades and laurels that have been showered on legendary film producer-director Stanley Kramer during his lifetime, would one more tribute — this one to celebrate his 100th birthday posthumously — make much of a...

UCLA researchers have found that happiness derived from a purpose in life has a healthier genetic effect than pleasure-seeking.

For UC Merced sophomore Luis Fernando Gonzalez Haro, spending just two weeks at UCLA last month "opened up my world and what I can do and be."   Raised in the small town of Gustine in California’s Central Valley, where his family moved from...