Every year when Guatemala’s six-month-long rainy season ends around November and the sun comes out, tourists flock to picturesque sites like Guatemala City and Antigua to frolic under cloudless blue skies.   For many Guatemalans,...

UCLA scientists have found that hypocretin, a peptide neurotransmitter, is increased during positive experiences, suggesting it could be useful in potential treatments for depression.

The star-studded March 5 event attended by Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and other celebrities garnered more than $1 million for the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

The Justice Joan Dempsey Klein Scholarships will support law students with financial need who have shown academic excellence and leadership qualities.

UCLA's extensive partnership with Dorsey High School, where students currently participate in seven UCLA community programs, was celebrated Tuesday by Dorsey administrators, teachers and students and a group of UCLA...

Soccer defender Joe Sofia has the highest cumulative GPA among current UCLA athletes. "I don’t value academics over soccer, or soccer over academics; I work very hard to balance them equally."

By combining, for the first time, "connectome" brain scans, extensive genomic screening and high-powered computing, scientists quickly zeroed in on a faulty gene.

Most mornings you can find Joe Sofia hitting the soccer field. His evenings are equally demanding as he hits the books. The third-year communications major and UCLA standout soccer player has managed to enjoy the best of both worlds during his time...

Overlapping financial, cultural and communication barriers often prevent Latino men with prostate cancer from accessing the care they need, UCLA researchers say.

The encouraging results of Project Access, which involved 48 communities in Africa and Thailand, have "major health benefit implications," said UCLA's Thomas J. Coates.

South Los Angeles and parts of the San Fernando Valley are like "urban deserts" when it comes to nonprofits that provide basic services, researchers say.

Quick work by UCLA police resulted in the arrest of a Culver City man following an attempted sexual assault in an off-campus apartment. "This is an excellent example of how campus police and the community work together to protect the community," UCLA Police Chief James D. Herren said.

UCLA placed eighth, up one spot from last year and up four places from 2011, in the survey, which ranks schools based on their reputation among the world's top scholars.

Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This op-ed appeared March 1, 2013, in...

Those who reported the greatest support also had the smallest increases in a pregnancy-related stress hormone that has been associated with depression after birth.

By mid-century, even ordinary vessels will be able to navigate previously blocked parts of the Arctic Ocean, a potential boon for economic development but a threat to the environment.

It was a typical day for Dr. Jason Napolitano. He arrived at 7 a.m. at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and checked the overnight results of his patients' X-rays, blood work and other lab tests. He reviewed their vital signs, medications and...

To help celebrate the 75th anniversary of March Madness, UCLA unveiled 11 pieces of original art — each one representing one of its NCAA men’s basketball championships — at Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game...

A professor of world arts and cultures has set up a UCLA user-driven website where speakers of languages that could go extinct can contribute to a working dictionary, chat, post audio and video clips, play word games and create a language-learning workbook.

Former secretary of state and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice offered a spirited defense of democracy as the best and most stable system of government at the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture of the Burkle Center for International...

Construction work will shrink the northbound I-405 freeway near UCLA from Friday night until Monday at 5 a.m. All northbound lanes will close at night.

Danny Oppenheimer (left) is an associate professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mike Edwards, the founding contributor of Leftfielder.org, a blog on politics and media, and Oppenheimer have written a book, ...

Lois Takahashi, professor and chair of the urban planning department and professor of Asian American studies, has been awarded a two-year, $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Her project, “Examining the Geographies of Immigrant Sex ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Beth Henley will be joined by actors Ed Harris, Diane Keaton, Amy Madigan and Belita Moreno on March 12 at 7:30 p.m. to read excerpts from her plays at the Hammer Museum's next program in the "Some...