Scientists have now pinpointed a tiny segment of the toxic amyloid-beta protein that they believe facilitates "clumping" and the subsequent death of brain cells.

Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA and the co-director of the Civil Rights Project based at UCLA. He is the co-author of "The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American...

Thanks to the generosity of philanthropist Morton La Kretz, the new field station in the Santa Monica Mountains will help UCLA researchers and colleagues conduct conservation practice in the field.

Imelda Nava-Landeros is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and faculty adviser in the Teacher Education Program. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is dean of the school. This op-ed appeared Jan. 8 in the...

The application period for the next staff advisor-designate to the Board of Regents opens today (Jan. 22),  the University of California Office of the President announced. The position's term runs from July 2013 through June 2015.   UC...

Laurie MaldonadoA report that smashes stereotypes about single mothers in the United States "living off the dole" drew national media attention to the work of Laurie Maldonado, a doctoral student in social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School...

Players' brains were found to have elevated levels of tau protein, a precursor to Alzheimer's and the condition known as CTE, which afflicted the late Junior Seau.

The portable, cost-effective platform, which can produce images of single nanoparticles over large sample areas, could be useful in fighting diseases in areas where medical resources are limited.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block issued the following statement regarding University of California President Mark Yudof’s announcement today that his tenure would end Aug. 31.

In the second installment of a three-part series, three UCLA social scientists open pantries and refrigerators to reveal the convenience foods and bulk shopping habits of the dual-income, middle-class families.

Thomas B. Smith will head an NSF-funded research project investigating the effects of climate change on biodiversity in the rainforests of Cameroon and Gabon.

UC President Mark Yudof, who took office on June 16, 2008, announced today (Jan. 18) he is stepping down as the head of the UC system and returning to UC Berkeley to teach law. To read his statement, go here.    To read, his biography, go...

While the decision is my own, Yudof says in a statement, the moment comes with a mixture of emotions.

In conjunction with its exhibition, "Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews," UCLA’s Fowler Museum will be hosting a Pre-Purim Bash, open to the public, on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8-11 p.m. Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates...

The federal government's voluntary care-coordination program was created to reduce costs while offering high-quality service to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

With nearly 100,000 applicants seeking admission for 2013, UCLA remains the most applied-to university in the country, drawing exceptionally talented students from California and beyond.

Sensor module, as worn by amputee subject When most people walk, they do so in a symmetrical fashion: They take even steps and place equal pressure on each foot as it touches the ground, with the heel striking first, the arch second, the toe...

The University of California will expand its credit-bearing, online courses for undergraduate students in the coming years with the aim of making them a more significant part of UC's lower-division curriculum.   At a meeting of the UC Board of...

BHIP participant in a class last fall works out with a medicine ball.Death-by-10-meter sprints. Arm-aching push-ups followed by lunges, then laps. Heart-pounding stair-climbing at Drake Stadium in the heat of high noon.   Ah,...

A $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, announced Jan. 15, includes UCLA Professor Paul Barber as co-principal investigator on a project to conserve coral reefs around Indonesia. Barber, a UCLA professor in the Department of Ecology ...

A team of UCLA scientists has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for research aimed at reshaping and improving how images and large data sets are collected and analyzed in science, engineering, medicine and other ...

Arguably the most collaborative space on campus, where disciplines like computer science, urban planning, Near Eastern languages and cultures and interactive mapping collide into creative scholarship.

UCLA's FAME center, a multi-university partnership, aims to develop unique nanomaterials and structures that will help make semiconductors far more powerful and energy-efficient.

The suspect in the Jan. 7 incident is described as a light-skinned Caucasian male with short dark hair, approximately 30 to 35 years old, 5'10" to 6 feet tall, with a thin build.