Dr. Douglas Junge, a professor emeritus of oral biology and medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry, passed away on May 5. He was 75.

Andrzej Korbonski, a professor emeritus in UCLA’s Department of Political Science, died May 13 at his home in Pacific Palisades following an extended illness. He was 86. A Polish-American scholar whose contributions to communist and post-communist ...

  Construction crews working on a residence hall accidentally knocked over a fire hydrant Thursday afternoon, causing water to shoot about 70 feet in the air on Young Drive West near Sproul Presidio, according to Assistant Fire Marshall Steve...

Angela Sanchez pulls off magic tricks — literally and figuratively. Matthew Rosenstein knew he wanted to do something that helped others. Andrew Nicholls served eight years in the U.S. Army, including a year in Iraq. Victor Ruiz knew the odds weren’t in his favor.

Professor King-Kok Cheung of the departments of Asian American Studies and English is the 2012-13 recipient of the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Cheung is author of the critically acclaimed ...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.     "Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us.” Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of...

Professor of history Geoffrey Robinson and assistant professor of archival studies Michelle Caswell have been awarded a $40,000 Faculty Initiative Grant from the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program. The grant will fund research on ...

    Take a 15-minute work break Tuesday to save a life.   The UCLA Center for Prehospital Care and Campus Emergency Medical Services will be offering free Hands-Only CPR training Tuesday, June 4, in Bruin Plaza between 10 a.m. and 2...

Crystal Valdez is among just 73 Americans — and 625 chemistry students from around the world — selected to meet with 34 laureates at an international conference in Germany.

UCLA student screenwriter Barnett Brettler won a $50,000 prize from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his script’s realistic depictions of science.

If Karen Carpenter, Barry Manilow, Barry White, Dolly Parton and Cher number among your guilty pleasures, Mitchell Morris is your man.   In a new book, the UCLA musicologist rises to the defense of these and other ‘70s recording artists...

That old iPod or MP3 player you’ve got stashed away in a junk drawer could be bringing sweet music to someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.   Alzheimer's researcher Joshua Grill wants to send your old iPod or MP3 player to a...

Thanks to the generosity of the Wasserman Foundation and other supporters, UCLA students are pursuing high-level research in a diverse range of subjects.

As expected, problems with memory increased with age, but researchers were surprised by the percentage of younger adults reporting memory difficulties

Daniel Losen remembers the hard lesson he learned as an elementary teacher faced with the problem of dealing with misbehaving students in his classroom. He realized that sending them to the principal’s office, as he frequently did, just showed...

Under the "medical home" care model, patients regularly see the same doctor, who develops an individual treatment plan and coordinates the patient's care.

Making its premiere at this year’s UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Film Festival will be a first-of-its-kind, student-created television pilot. Under the guidance of noted television director Rod Holcomb and veteran feature...

"Our findings indicate that some of the contents of yogurt may actually change the way our brain responds to the environment," said UCLA's Dr. Kirsten Tillisch.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $1.6 million research award to the Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA to study the use of videoconferencing technology to deliver behavioral ...

When Corina McIntyre signed up to become a California JusticeCorps student volunteer in 2011 through the UCLA Center for Community Learning, she was ready to hit the ground running.   “I just thought it was a fantastic opportunity to work...

Photo by Jake Fabricius Plastic surgeon and hand surgeon Kodi Azari co-directs UCLA’s Operation Mend, which treats wounded veterans with facial and other injuries requiring reconstruction. Before participating in a panel last month on how...

Experts on education assessment and policy from around the country will participate in a symposium on June 12 in De Neve Plaza to discuss the reports of the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education. The reports call for state and...

A team of UCLA Health System brain specialists implanted its 500th brain pacemaker on Thursday, and invited followers on Twitter to observe. The patient, actor and musician Brad Carter, was awakened during the surgery and asked to play the guitar as an aid to the medical team.

Bicycle-powered generators will run the show Friday night when UCLA's first bike-powered concert takes the stage.