The team's multidisciplinary research efforts will reshape and improve how images and large data sets are collected and analyzed in science, engineering, medicine and other fields.

How many of us have read a story about someone performing a selfless and generous act and been inspired to pay it forward? Tony Tolbert, associate director of admissions and outreach and an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, actually did – in a big way.

Whether it’s using Twitter to study and monitor civil unrest in the Middle East, applying image-archiving to fields as diverse as radiology and media studies, or crowdsourcing information from people all over the globe to better understand...

An article by scientist Michael Carey has been selected as one of the best articles published in 2012 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry The article was among 22 papers selected by the journal's editors from more than 4,000 for inclusion in the ...

Beverly Macy, CEO of Gravity Summit, Inc., and co-author of "The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing" (McGraw-Hill, 2011), teaches executive global marketing and branding and social media marketing for UCLA Extension. This op-ed originally...

Higher education institutions trying to extend their reach internationally have launched study abroad programs and started satellite campuses in foreign lands. But have these trends now made higher education inaccessible and unaffordable for a broad...

If you thought the issue of segregation in schools was an urban problem that was ultimately solved with the past victories of the civil rights movement, Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, is asking you to take another...

Researchers found that with a small dose of extra training, physicians were more thorough and informative in discussing medicines and their effects with patients.

Find out more about UCLA’s plans to go tobacco-free by attending Staff Assembly’s Learn at Lunch on Thursday, when smokers can hear from addiction experts about the most effective ways to quit.

Compared to kids who are not overweight, obese children are at nearly twice the risk of having a slew of medical, mental and developmental difficulties, UCLA researchers found.

Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur fellow Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at UCLA, will appear at Royce Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. to discuss his new book. "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional...

  A three-part documentary series produced by UCTV explores the heartache for those suffering from and coping with Alzheimer's disease and the hope offered by UCLA researchers leading the charge to slow its progress...

The grant funds a unique project that brings together faculty from architecture, urban studies and the humanities to study contemporary issues in four of the world's most complex cities.

Gov. Jerry Brown today (Jan. 10) proposed a state spending plan for the coming fiscal year that would provide a modest boost to the University of California's operating budget for 2013-14.   The state legislature still must agree to the...

"A Portrait of Piotr Kajzer" (1944) is one of 114 drawings by Franciszek Jazwiecki that were created in the concentration camps. Imagine toiling in secrecy, trying to create a drawing on bits of toilet paper or using a nail sharpened on a piece...

As part of its new initiative, UCLA's Burkle Center will work with the UN and other groups to provide writers and producers with ideas, expertise and creative opportunities.

The ruling has affirmed UCLA's commitment to fair business practices and the speedy commercialization of university technologies for the benefit of the public.

UCLA faculty member Tony Tolbert moved out of his home and rented it to a homeless family for $1 a month.

Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser to President George W. Bush and currently on faculty at Stanford University, will be on campus to deliver the 2013 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on Feb. 27 at 5...

UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf is being honored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with its Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences, presented this year with the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal. He will be honored in a ceremony on April ...

Markov, whose colorful life involved stints as a battlefield courier and farmworker, followed by a long career as a pioneering academic, died Jan. 1. He was 91.

On Jan. 7, critics of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center published a guest opinion column in the Daily Bruin, elaborating on their lawsuit challenging the project. UCLA Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen...

"This is a hidden gem on the UCLA campus," La Kretz said of the seven-acre oasis, which is home to thousands of species of plants. "I'm delighted to be able to lend my support."