Professor Patrick Goodman will be honored with the 2013 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is presented by the UCLA School of Law annually to a professor who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to teaching. He will receive the award ...

Professor Erkki Huhtamo's new book, "Illusions in Motion," published recently by MIT Press, explores media culture in the making from the 18th to 20th century. The centerpoint is the moving panorama, once a hugely popular media spectacle, which has ...

Long thought to be just genetic "garbage," mutant viruses can tag along with their normal cousins and, in some cases, increase disease transmission by up to 10 percent.

Rice, the former secretary of state and national security adviser to President George W. Bush, addressed a crowd of hundreds Wednesday evening at UCLA’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.

Professor of geography Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and winner of the 1999 National Medal of Science, was awarded the 2012 RBG Kew International Medal by the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. The medal is given to individuals who have made ...

In findings that have implications for L.A.'s recent TB outbreak, researchers show that certain bacteria pretend to be viruses -- a tactic that allows them to hide out inside our cells.

(From left) Haley Ludwigson, executive director of the Fink Center, and UCLA Anderson students Michael Gould, Brian Gelfand and Aylon Ben-Sholomo.A team of M.B.A. students from UCLA Anderson School of Management took first place and a $5,000 prize ...

Providers need to make sure patients with limited English proficiency have access to interpreters and translated materials to assure high-quality care, a UCLA report says.

To keep endangered languages spoken by indigenous people alive and vibrant, 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,...

UCLA researchers and colleagues have discovered that acne bacteria contain "bad" strains associated with pimples and "good" strains that may protect the skin.

UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection."Not only do they get chronic wounds more than the rest of us, but they take longer to heal in that...

The work of Greg Lynn, professor of architecture and urban design, is included in the latest exhibition at the National Academy Museum. His "RV Prototype" is featured in "Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture," on view ...

Public health scholars and policymakers agree it is possible to get people to choose healthier options if they are engaged on several fronts, including enforcement by law. "Policy is not a dirty word," said Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Dr. Jonathan Fielding, a distinguished UCLA professor of health services and pediatrics.

Shirley Clarke was no ordinary documentary filmmaker. One of the first women to break the male lock on independent filmmaking in the ’50s and ’60s, Clarke grew up in New York, a child of wealthy parents who provided her with a...

The research by UCLA's David Cline and Xiaoping Ding represents a significant breakthrough and has implications for using fusion as a new energy source in the U.S.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced at a UCLA environmental symposium that the city will stop using coal-based energy by 2025.

Jorge Torres, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, has been named a 2013 Cottrell Scholar, based on his innovative research as well as his passion for teaching, said the head of Research Corporation for Science Advancement, ...

Plan on attending the annual Alliance Suppliers and BruinBuy Trade Show, where more than 75 of UCLA's recommended suppliers will exhibit their latest products and technologies and answer questions about their goods and services. The trade show will...

As much as social scientists have learned about what drives people’s decision-making, there is still no silver bullet for changing people’s behavior — especially when it comes to making better health...

Barely a few decades ago, it was not uncommon for scholars to discuss diversity, race and ethnicity in binary terms: minorities and majorities, black and white. But the dramatic increase of ethic, racial, linguistic and religious diversity in...

Timothy Taylor’s book, “Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture,” was selected as the winner of the 2012 John C. Cawelti Award by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, a group of scholars and ...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made news at a UCLA panel Tuesday morning when he noted that L.A. will move off of coal-based energy by 2025.

Jacqueline Durran Jacqueline Durran, last night's winner of an Oscar for her costume designs for "Anna Karenina," appeared on a thought-provoking panel of leading costume designers brought together on campus Friday by UCLA's School of Theater,...

Two scholars have found fault with Richard Sander's report on race and UCLA admissions and have disputed the validity of his conclusions.

From Feb. 26 to 28, the school will present a series of panels, TEDActive workshops and TED-themed talks in conjunction with the annual TED conference in Long Beach.