UCLA researchers found that people who live up 1.5 kilometers away from freeways — a greater distance than previously thought — are exposed to pollutants each day.

The 1973 beginnings of UCLA’s Institute of Archaeology hardly signaled greatness. Its annual budget was a paltry $6,000. Founding director Giorgio Buccellati had a staff of one, a part-time assistant who worked a few hours a week. The institute didn’t even have a home.

The UC Berkeley professor will discuss his new book, "Improbable Scholars," at a UCLA Graduate School of Eduction and Information Studies event on April 24.

Four UCLA faculty members are among an esteemed group of 175 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships. The new fellows were chosen from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.   The John ...

Computer science professor Amit Sahai and his research team have received a $1.2M National Science Foundation grant for research on secure computation, a powerful concept from cryptography that enables collaboration in the absence of trust.  Despite ...

UCLA and seven other UCs made the cut in a 2013 guide to green colleges, released Tuesday by The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools.

Four UCLA faculty members are among an esteemed group of 175 of scholars, artists and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships. The new fellows were chosen from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.   The...

The 1973 beginnings of UCLA’s Institute of Archaeology hardly signaled greatness. Its annual budget was a paltry $6,000. Founding director Giorgio Buccellati had a staff of one, a part-time assistant who worked a few hours a week. The institute...

UCLA becomes a tobacco-free campus on Monday, April 22, and will celebrate the Earth-Day launch of the tobacco-free policy in Bruin Plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.    Going tobacco-free is part of UCLA's Healthy Campus Initiative, and...

By understanding how aggressive or likely to spread certain subtypes are, oncologists can tailor therapies that are more effective and potentially less damaging.

East L.A. (left) took on a different look when high school students in an urban planning workshop at UCLA mapped their neighborhood, showing their school, a nearby park, gang hangouts and a roaring freeway ramp....

Veteran journalist and UCLA faculty member Jon Christensen has been named editor of Boom: A Journal of California published by the University of California Press. An example of what Christensen calls "humanities journalism," the quarterly magazine ...

The U.S. need a complete "rethink" on the role government can play in encouraging certain economic policies for the nation's benefit, professor Stuart Schweitzer argues.

The half-day event will feature Chancellor Gene Block, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, journalists, and experts from UCLA, nonprofits and government.

Great buildings can define a cityscape, but how much do the grand plans of architects influence daily life? Does architecture really matter?   Renowned architect and UCLA professor Thom Mayne, second from the left, talks about why...

Kent Wong is director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches courses in labor studies and Asian American studies. He wrote this commentary at the invitation of the Los Angeles Times, which asked Angelenos what the next L.A....

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is a professor of education at UCLA. Her essay appeared in the Huffington Post on April 15, 2012.   I chose to celebrate my fifth post-cancer birthday by inviting people to do acts of kindness, because during a...

Mark Carlson, adjunct associate professor of theory and composition in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is a 2013 recipient of a letter of distinction from New Music USA for his "significant contribution to the field of contemporary American ...

R. Edward Geiselman, professor of psychology at UCLA, will receive the Mary Ellen McCormack Award April 26 from the L.A. Sheriff's Department for his lifetime contributions to the prevention and investigation of child abuse. Geiselman has worked with ...

In this four-minute video, UCLA's Jean-Luc Margot describes the critical role radar astronomy plays in evaluating and mitigating the risks of asteroid impacts.

A drug-delivery system utilizing nanodiamonds, byproducts of mining and refining operations, significantly reduced the size of tumors in mice with "triple-negative" breast cancer.

The UCLA ceremony coincides with the 66th anniversary of Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

The researchers say the newly synthesized form of niobium oxide could one day help provide rapid power to systems as diverse as urban electrical grids and hybrid vehicle brakes.

The FDA designation should speed development for a promising breast cancer treatment being tested at UCLA.

Public health intersects with urban design in the latest pairing of creative thinkers -- Dr. Richard Jackson and architect Roger Sherman -- for a Hammer Conversation on April 17 at 7:30 p.m.   Jackson is a pediatrician, professor, chair...