By "grabbing" these cells, doctors can perform a "liquid" biopsy, allowing for earlier detection and better monitoring of cancer progression and treatment.

The 85th Academy Awards takes place Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. UCLA faculty members are available to comment on the Oscars and Oscar-related topics.

In Memoriam: Geneva Phillips, managing editor of the California Dryden Project Jeanette Gilkison (from left), English department’s office supervisor; the late Vinton Dearing, managing editor for the California Dryden Project; and Geneva...

If you ever wanted to find fame on the Internet, then here's your chance to hear from six YouTube stars and entertainment journalists who will be on a panel to discuss just how it's done. USAC's Campus Events Commission is presenting a music...

The question raises the hackles of environmentalists and global-warming deniers alike — yet it’s one we should be asking sooner rather than later. That was the consensus of a UCLA climate scientist and environmental historian, and a New York Times environmental writer participating in a panel discussion put on by Zocalo in partnership with the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the environmental humanities at UCLA.

A $650,000 endowment in honor of memory of an alum who died shortly after graduating from the UCLA in English will increase graduate support there by about 10%. The boost is expected to increase the department’s ability to compete with better-endowed ...

In a discovery that could lead to big changes in small-scale electronics, UCLA researchers developed a method for switching tiny magnetic fields on and off with an electric field.

Richard Walter is the chairman of UCLA's graduate program in screenwriting and author of "Essentials of Screenwriting." His op-ed appeared Feb. 21 in USA Today.       When I'm hungry and crave a tuna sandwich, I don't go to a...

Mary Rose Brusewitz, an international transactional attorney, will deliver a Regents' Lecture, "Communicating Cross Culturally When the Stakes are High," Feb. 26 at the UCLA School of Law, room 1430. Brusewitz, a UCLA alumna with a degree...

Twenty years ago, Tatenda Mbudzi was a young boy who delighted in watching even the tiniest bit of American cartoons from his home in Zimbabwe. Today, he is a UCLA master’s student in the School of Theater, Film and Television’s highly competitive Producer’s Program and will be rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in Hollywood as he takes to the stage Sunday at the 85th annual Academy Awards.

Hillary Theyer, adjunct lecturer and alumna of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, has been named one of 24 exceptional Public Library Association (PLA) Leadership Fellows by the American Library Assocation’s PLA Development ...

Facilities Management mechanics suit up in scuba gear to clean each of UCLA’s pools twice a week and they find the weirdest things while they’re underwater.

Gary Orfield, UCLA professor of education, law, political science and urban planning, was the keynote speaker at the Annual Diversity Lecture at the USC Rossier School of Education on Feb. 13. His presentation was titled 'The Supreme Court and the ...

The Rasmussen Encephalitis Children's Project has contributed $125,000 to researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to continue their work on the rare, devastating pediatric brain disease. Rasmussen Encephalitis (RE) is a neurological ...

"Mandela for President: South Africa Votes for Democracy," which opens April 7, documents the historic vote that effectively buried the apartheid regime.

Matt Rosenstein (right) and a Pathway friend in the bleachers at a Bruins baseball game.For the past eight years, one of Matt Rosenstein’s best friends has been Alexis, who is autistic. They met at Santa Monica High School when Rosenstein was a...

Unusually high calcium levels in the blood can almost always be traced to primary hyperparathyroidism, an undertreated, underreported condition that affects mainly women and the elderly, according to a new study by UCLA researchers.

Should we just adapt to climate change?   UCLA environmental historian Jon Christensen (from the left) speaks to Andrew Revkin, writer of an environmental blog at the New York Times, and Alex Hall, a UCLA scientist. The question raises the...

Tatenda Mbudzi sure has come a long way. Twenty years ago, he was a young boy who delighted in watching even the tiniest bit of American cartoons from his home in Zimbabwe. Today, he is a master’s student in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television’s highly competitive Producer’s Program and will be rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in Hollywood as he takes to the stage for the 85th annual Academy Awards.

Last weekend's 12th annual Dance Marathon in Ackerman Grand Ballroom at UCLA raised $475,422 to benefit pediatric AIDS.

Five outstanding young professors from UCLA are among 126 scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada to receive 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. UCLA is tied for second in the number of new fellows ...

The UCLA professors are among 126 scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada to receive the prestigious honor from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Researchers found that scopolamine, often used for nausea and motion sickness, could boost the effectiveness of an anxiety treatment known as exposure therapy.

Why don’t diets work? And what makes most people who’ve lost weight on such diets relapse? With obesity rates reaching record levels across the country, experts in public health and nutrition are intent on finding answers to such...

Armen Alchian, a UCLA professor emeritus of economics who played an influential role in his field for more than half a century and helped elevate UCLA's economics department to one of the most respected in the country, died on Feb. 19 at his home in ...