Using a novel method for measuring land-based temperatures, UCLA researchers found the region is now 10 to 14 degrees hotter than 20,000 years ago, during the last ice age.

UCLA faculty and industry professionals will participate in panels, discussions and events that chart a dynamic new future for architecture in L.A. and beyond.

Marjorie Faulstrich Orellana is an associate professor of education in the division of urban school at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Her research interests involve sociocultural and ethnographic approaches to the...

What does French stoneware from the 19th century have in common with the camera used to make Hollywood’s first feature movie and a miniature etching bearing the well-known slogan, “War is unhealthy for children and other living...

The Human Rights & International Criminal Law Online Forum, started by law professor Richard Steinberg and his students, has become a closely watched international "moot court" that more than 100,000 people have visited to read opinions written by top international jurists, legal scholars, lawyers and policymakers.

Angela Horne appointed new head of Anderson School Library Angela Horne has been appointed head of the Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Horne came to UCLA from the Catherwood,...

The University of California today announced it will seek a restraining order against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, in response to an announcement from the union that it is asking UC patient care and service employees to strike at UC medical centers May 21–22.

A UCLA professor and alumna were among the recipients at the third annual Nurse 21 awards honoring those who have demonstrated leadership in advancing health and for their commitments to enriching the nursing profession.

Understanding the plant's unique genetic makeup could lead scientists to new ideas about how to extend the healthy lives of humans and agricultural crops.

Annelie Rugg rides from West Hills in the San Fernando Valley, crossing the Santa Monica Mountains.

Studying human neural cells — as opposed to laboratory mice — was a key advance because the disease affects people and animals differently.

Rob Fast (from left), nursing school special projects manager; Daisy Award winners Carol Pavlish, MarySue Heilemann, Laurie Love and Dottie Wiley; and associate dean Adey Nyamathi.Four faculty from the UCLA School of Nursing were selected by students ...

Joining ranks that include Albert Einstein and Alexander Graham Bell, two professors from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have been elected by their peers to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their important ...

UCLA is among the world’s great research enterprises, testing boundaries and producing new knowledge on a daily basis, and the departure of one lab will not diminish our impact.

Dr. Edward De Robertis and Ernest Wright are the 42nd and 43rd current members of UCLA's faculty to receive the prestigious honor.

A virtual court is in session every day on the most pressing and complex issues of human rights and international criminal law. And citizens from around the world have a front-row seat to watch some of the best legal minds make their strongest case...

Now available for iPad, 'Plan ABC' lists birth control methods in order of effectiveness and is designed to provide women with current, medically accurate information.

Not many people can say they cross a mountain range on their way to work — not on their own steam, anyway. But Annelie Rugg gets to campus from the West San Fernando Valley most days by bicycle.

Investigators botched their interviews of hundreds of children in the 1980s McMartin Preschool abuse case, critics charge.In 1983, a Manhattan Beach mother pressed police charges against McMartin Preschool teacher Ray Buckey, alleging he had...

Dr. J. Thomas Rosenthal, chief medical officer for UCLA Health System, and the UCLA Mobile Clinic Project, were honored by the Los Angeles Business Journal with its 2013 Healthcare Leadership Awards at an April 18 luncheon at the Millennium Biltmore ...

On the faculty at UCLA since 1987, social welfare associate professor Alfreda Iglehart has circled the globe as a marathoner, completing runs in Beijing, Bangkok and Iceland. Rio de Janeiro is where she will be this year. She started...

Even while America experiences a recovery of sorts from the recent recessionary period, Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith, author of a new book, "Who Stole the American Dream?", says there is no cure in sight for the growing inequality...

Study is the first to identify bacteria's 'strategy' for forming the micro-colonies that become biofilms, which can cause seemingly routine bacterial infections to become lethal.

The UCLA Hammer Museum has been awarded $100,000 to set up a pop-up village of local artisanal shops and galleries in the struggling Westwood Village area.   The money for Arts ReStore LA: Westwood comes from the Goldhirsh Foundation, which, as...

Lené Levy-Storms, social welfare professor at UCLA's Luskin Scool of Public Affairs, has received a grant from the Archstone Foundation, an affiliate of the American Public Health Association, to conduct a study: "Creating Caring Connections: An ...