Gabriel Lobet, 14, a student at Culver City High School, uses an ophthalmoscope to examine the retinas of his mom, Elizabeth Calvin. He and other students from local middle and high schools examined their parents' brains Tuesday as part of a two-day...

A UCLA study shows what many middle-aged Californians privately suspect: They are the first to lose their jobs and health benefits when hard times hit.

UCLA atmospheric scientist Kuo-Nan Liou will receive the 2013 American Geophysical Union Roger Revelle Medal, an award that recognizes scientists for “their outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences, atmosphere-ocean coupling, atmosphere-land ...

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...

Amin Banani, founder of the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA, the western world’s first bachelor of arts program in Iranian studies, died July 28 in Santa Monica at 86.

The newly developed technique could help scientists diagnose genetic diseases earlier and more accurately.

Zocalo recently interviewed attorney David Codell, visiting Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law and Legal Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA,in the green room, where invited panelists answer fun, random questions just before they...

Like employers across the country, UC has been reviewing the legal, policy and operational implications of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) for the university and its...

"We are honored to work with the Doheny Eye Institute board in developing a plan to improve patient care throughout Southern California," said UCLA Health System CEO Dr. David Feinberg.

Avis Ridley-Thomas (far left) and Wellford (Buzz) Wilms (center) with UCLA undergrads who took their class in "Restoring Civility: Understanding, Using and Resolving Conflict." After taking a training course on conflict mediation taught at UCLA...

In celebration of the exhibition "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," the Hammer Museum and KCRW–89.9 FM present free live music tonight at 7 p.m. curated by and featuring KCRW DJs with special guests. Enjoy sets by KCRW DJ Anne Litt...

Our happiness can impact our gene expression, but it's the way in which we're happy that determines whether that expression is positive or negative, UCLA researchers say.

   "Hollywood Bob" Goldberg explains in his online course how genetic engineering is carried out. His lectures, shot in a production studio and enlivened by archival images as well as animation, came about through a collaboration with...

The "software obfuscation" system encrypts software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it.

The new cells could serve as a power-generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users' ability to see through the surface.

John Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of electrical engineering and public policy at UCLA. This piece originally appeared in the Atlantic on July 26, 2013.   We don't have a mind reading...

Two professors from the UCLA School of Nursing will be inducted as Fellows to the American Academy of Nursing. Fellows are selected based on their outstanding nursing contributions and their drive to continually help reform America’s health care ...

"Cutie and the Boxer," which won the Best Director Award for Zachary Heinzerling at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is coming to UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater Aug. 11 as part of the Sundance Institute’s inaugural NEXT WEEKEND....

Three UCLA School of Law professors, Devon Carbado, coauthor of "Acting White: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America," Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and Cheryl Harris, co-director of the...

Gary Orfield is the professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA. He is co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. The Moyers and Company website featured a column that was posted on...

Gary Blasi, emeritus professor of law, will be honored with the State Bar of California’s Loren Miller Legal Services Award, which is considered a lifetime achievement award, for his significant work in increasing access to the legal system and his ...

Dwaine Duckett, the University of California’s vice president for systemwide human resources and programs, issued the following statement on July 24 about the status of UC’s negotiations with the American Federation of State,...

She was a 93-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where the air was tainted with the smell of death. In 1945, she managed to escape from the Nazis into a forest when camp guards led her and other prisoners on a final death...

Students in Simul8 design and maintain apps for UCLA Library. The team functions like a start-up and provides students the opportunity to apply their computer coding knowledge in real-world settings. When Kevin Rundblad was hired in September...

David Mong, a Hong Kong-based philanthropist and businessman as well as a UCLA alumnus, has given the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science a $5-million gift. The largest single donation UCLA has ever received from Asia or from ...