A major pandemic could occur if bird flu were to become highly contagious among humans. UCLA scientists are making sure we get a leg up on the threat.

Villaraigosa visited the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs for a discussion about improving public education and shared his thoughts on leadership — from advice he would have given himself earlier in his career to what to expect from future leaders.

Engineers Without Borders, a student group at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has taken on the mission of providing a community in Guatemala with a reliable source of clean, potable water.

Kevin M. Dirksen (right) is an ethics fellow at the UCLA Health System Ethics Center. Neil S. Wenger is the center's director.     The 911 call last month that led to an emergency dispatcher begging workers at a Bakersfield senior...

The Fowler Museum will be hosting a free concert by UCLA's own Balkan Women's Choir, Superdevoiche, on Thursday, March 14 at 6 p.m.  Led by famed Bulgarian singer and choral conductor Tzvetanka Varimezova, Superdevoiche offers traditional...

Despite high hopes for clot-removal devices, doctors discovered that patients treated with them showed no improvement over those who received standard post-stroke care.

After four years of relative stagnation, the national economy is beginning to "ramp up," led by the housing and auto sectors, UCLA economists say in their first quarterly report of 2013.

March 11, 2013     Dear UC Colleagues,   Throughout the state and at all UC campuses, researchers are working on new ways to prevent, treat and cure cancer. As we approach the peak of the tax season, I wanted to share information on...

Dentists at UCLA's Hospital Dentistry Clinic understand that special-needs patients often feel fearful about going to the dentist. It wasn’t easy for Barbara Smith to find dental care for her 23-year-old son, Mark, who has Down syndrome....

The certification, which confirms that the center has met the highest national standards for safety and quality, further enhances UCLA's reputation as an innovator in clinical care.

    With the expanding barrage of tweets threatening people with information overload, a UCLA doctoral student and four of her colleagues have figured out how to help them cope with what’s become known as social media...

Animation Career Review named UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television as the No. 2 program in the country for animation and game design. "The school's world famous Animation Workshop accepts just 12 new students each year," according to the ...

A UCLA student has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of an acquaintance following a party where alcohol was available, campus police said.

Mishuana Goeman, assistant professor of gender studies, has written a new book, "Mark My Words: Native Women (Re)mapping Our Nations." The book examines the role of 20th-century native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies. "Mark My ...

Teresa L. McCarty, the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at UCLA and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University, has written a new book: "Language Planning and Policy in Native ...

Professor of education Mike Rose was recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Education.Founded in 1965, the NAEd is a select group of approximately 200 members from throughout the United States and foreign associates who are elected ...

Philanthropists Dr. Mick Dragoo and his wife, Mary, have pledged a landmark gift of $5 million to the UCLA School of Dentistry to establish the UCLA Mick and Mary Dragoo Periodontal and Implant Clinical Research and Patient Care Center.The Dragoos' ...

UCLA is well-positioned to play a significant role in a national effort to map the brain, as the home of the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center and more.

During his term in office, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has managed to implement reforms at 22 of LAUSD's worst-performing schools. Since John Deasy took the top job as superintendent of LAUSD less than two years ago, he...

Social welfare associate professor Laura Abrams of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is the author of a new book, "Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C" (Rutgers University Press), which explores the...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who visited the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs last Wednesday for a discussion about improving public education, also shared his thoughts on...

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"Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries 10 times more powerful. ... Now is the time to reach a level of research ...

The gift, from philanthropists Dr. Mick Dragoo and his wife, Mary, is the largest single donation from an individual or couple the dental school has ever received.