A veteran recently back from a two-year deployment in Iraq, Michelle was struggling with PTSD and memory loss due to a combat-related traumatic brain injury while raising her three kids alone and in the midst of a custody battle with her abusive...

Using virtual reality, neurophysicists have determined how environmental stimuli and brain rhythms generate our neuronal maps of the world.

Building a bridge from the laboratory to the marketplace, the Institute for Technology Advancement has launched technology firms and aggressively mined industry expertise to help shape research.

Extroverts draw us in with their energy and enthusiasm, but they can disappoint when it comes to teamwork.Your department is interviewing candidates for a team to launch an ambitious new project. Among them is Darren, an energetic, confident...

Given the confidentiality that governs UCLA’s student conduct process, the university will not discuss specific cases in order to protect our students’ privacy.   In general, however, appeals of interim suspensions imposed by UCLA...

Highlights include offerings in international theater, modern dance, music and spoken word by artists from across the performance spectrum.

The newly formed UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America held its inaugural spring symposium Wednesday, drawing members of the campus community together to share ideas aimed at alleviating poverty and improving health in Latin...

Four UCLA Anderson School of Management faculty and graduates who have personal experience as owners of sports franchises talk about the balance between pulling in profits and pleasing fans.

Those in underserved communities are not only at greater stroke risk, but they face more barriers to achieving healthy lifestyle changes, researchers say.

Acclaimed photographer David Hume Kennerly will discuss photography during times of crisis and upheaval Wednesday on May 1 at noon at the Fowler Museum. In 1972 Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his work documenting...

This study and others indicate a greater severity of addiction among female abusers, suggesting that new treatment approaches may be needed for girls and women.

The annual open house on May 4 celebrates the institute's 40th anniversary.

In October of 1957, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley announced that he was moving the storied franchise to Los Angeles. Historians have since debated O'Malley's motives — including his frustration over not being able to build a new...

Archaeology supporters and their family members have a lot to look forward to as UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology celebrates its 40th anniversary at its annual open house, a 16-year tradition for the...

Two million veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. They have the potential to change the lives of civilians, too. Three panels at a Zócalo/UCLA forum asking “How Are Veterans Changing America?” discussed the impact on America’s economy, medicine and families.

A symposium is being held in honor of Christopher T. Russell, a professor in UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences, on May 8 and 9. This gathering is an opportunity for friends, colleagues, students and former students to celebrate and ...

Dr. John P. DiFiori was installed as the 20th president of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) on Saturday, April 20 during the society's annual meeting in San Diego. DiFiori is a professor in the departments of Family Medicine ...

Five students who devised a concept for providing affordable food to India's poor are in the running for an international prize.

UCLA scientists say people with body dysmorphic disorder, a condition in which they see themselves as disfigured even when they're not, have less-effcient brain connections.

Dashew, an inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in the founding of the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars at UCLA, died April 25.

The 2 million veterans who are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. As they come home, they have the potential to change the lives of civilians, too.   On Saturday at a Zócalo/UCLA forum at...

Dr. Mario Deng, professor of medicine and the medical director of the UCLA integrated program for advanced heart failure, mechanical support and heart transplant, was recognized as a Gold DOC award by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The honor gives ...

Peter Nonacs is a professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at UCLA. He studies the evolution of social behavior across species, ranging from viruses, to insects, to mammals and even occasionally humans. His commentary appeared...

The Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America will draw on UCLA's cross-disciplinary strengths and partnerships with other institutions to address key issues in the region.

Yancey, perhaps best known as the creator of "Instant Recess", an award-winning program dedicated to "making America healthier 10 minutes at a time," died April 23 of lung cancer.