From life’s beginning to its end, and at all points in between, there are opportunities for vexing ethical dilemmas to arise. And in this era of advanced technology, those opportunities are on the rise.

A recent study by Michael A. Stoll, professor and chair of public policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, looked at residential mobility in the U.S. over the last three decades, focusing particularly on the last decade.

Local elected officials recently joined professors from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and leaders of the Los Angeles Urban League and California Business Roundtable for a discussion about the unbalanced economic recovery being experienced by low-income communities throughout Los Angeles.

In conjunction with a Richard Artschwager retrospective at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 35 of the artist's blps have been placed in locations around Los Angeles.

Patricia Greenfield's analysis of some 1.5 million books published between 1800 and 2000 shows how human psychology has evolved in response to historical change.

You'll find one of Richard Artschwager's blps affixed to lifeguard headquarters on the beach in Santa Monica.   Now on view on buildings throughout Los Angeles: black lozenge-shaped marks.   In conjunction with the...

The five-year grant will support UCLA scientists' interdisciplinary efforts to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer.

In Memoriam: UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Charles Hopkins, the longest-serving employee at UCLA Film and Television Archive, died on July 27 at 69 from a number of health complications.

Patricia Turner is dean and vice provost for undergraduate education at UCLA. She teaches about African American culture and is the author of four books on the subject. This op-ed appeared Saturday, Aug. 03 in the Sacramento Bee.   Sunday is...

UCLA researchers have helped to uncover a biological link between schizophrenia and Fragile X syndrome, a disorder associated with intellectual impairment and autism.

An infant is born prematurely at 22 weeks, weighing only about one pound and with bleeding in the brain. He tentatively clings to life, but in light of the fact that there is minimal likelihood he will recover a level of functional mental...

Law professor Kenneth Klee will be inducted into the Turnaround Management Association’s Turnaround, Restructuring and Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame for his contributions to elevate the corporate restructuring community. He will be ...

David Shulman is a retired Wall Street executive who is now a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast. He is also affiliated with Baruch College. This op-ed appeared in US News and World Report on July 31, 2013.   After being...

The Institute of American Cultures offered Bunche Center research grants for 2013-14 to several faculty to advance our understanding of new social and cultural realities occasioned by the dramatic population shifts of recent decades, including greater ...

Amy Rowat, assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, has been awarded a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER grant to support her research on soft biological matter. The NSF’s CAREER Program supports the research of ...

UCLA researchers have found that a new treatment approach incorporating both cellular and gene therapies significantly reduced brain tumor size in a model system.

Beginning Saturday, Aug. 3, the northbound I-405 off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be closed until mid-December for construction of a longer and wider off-ramp.   The closure begins at 1 a.m. and will be in effect 24 hours a day. The new ramp...

It’s not what first lady Michele Obama had in mind with her Let’s Move! initiative, but that’s just what Americans did from 2008 to 2010 — at the height of what economists call the Great Recession.   A recent study by...

Today an article by the Center for Investigative Reporting called into question the travel expenses of some campus leaders. Although UCLA made every effort to convey its side of the story to the reporter, some important points were omitted from the article.

Only those fans who bought tickets to see the Spanish soccer team train with the L.A. Galaxy at Carson's StubHub will be admitted to the UCLA training session at 5 p.m. on Aug. 2.

As part of an effort to support the growth of Chinese education in U.S. schools, 115 teachers from China have been studying at UCLA to learn how to be effective Mandarin language teachers for American students.

With the Thirty Meter Telescope project in Hawaii, UCLA and the University of California have moved a step closer to peering deeper into the cosmos than ever before.

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.   “The technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in localized brain activity over time, can...

Chancellor Gene Block and more than 160 other university presidents and chancellors have urged President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to make it a national priority to increase federal spending on research and higher...

Block is among some 160 university leaders urging the president and Congress to make it a national priority to increase federal spending on research and higher education.