Jane Margolis, one of the driving forces behind Center X’s efforts to make computer science accessible to all Los Angeles Unified School District students, particularly students of color, knows from experience that inequities exist in the...

On March 1, UCLA Health System will begin rolling out its electronic health record program, to be used by physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other clinicians and staff members. The new electronic system will allow integration of inpatient and...

A. Janet Tomiyama is a UCLA assistant professor of psychology and director of the Dieting, Stress, and Health Laboratory. The op-ed, which she co-authored, appeared recently in the Huffington Post. It was co-authored by Britt Ahlstrom,...

Herbie Hancock (shown at left) and Wayne Shorter (below) — multiple Grammy Award winners and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters — have been named UCLA professors at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. "We are truly delighted to welcome ...

Prof Daniel Blumstein argues for an new amendment to the constitution to protect people's right to clean air, pure water and the preservation of the environment.

  What happens when a group of young, talented musicians are given free rein in a world-class museum? Things get wild.   See for yourself in the first episode of "Museum Meets Orchestra," a new UCTV Prime documentary series that goes...

For the millions of holiday shoppers who recently spent $42.3 billion for online purchases, the conveniences are irrefutable, from browsing the virtual aisles 24/7 — even from home all cozy in our pajamas — to seeing our stuff...

Marvin Hoffenberg, professor emeritus of political science, died Sunday, Dec. 30, at age 98. Marvin Hoffenberg was born in Buffalo, New York in July 7, 1914. He attended Ohio State University where he received his bachelor's degree in 1939 and a ...

The ultimate aim of UC survey, the largest of its kind ever in American higher education, is to help foster and maintain a positive, inclusive campus environment for everyone.

UCLA researchers studying mice found that the overall amount of high-fat, high-sugar food one consumes has surprisingly little to do with how obese one becomes.

"The mentoring experience will be profound for us," said Hancock of his and Shorter's new role instructing jazz performance students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

The new tax legislation that Congress approved on Jan. 1 and President Obama recently signed may affect the 2013 federal income tax withholding on your paychecks.   The tax rate will go up for individuals earning $400,000 or more a year and for...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded  a $50,000 NEA Art Works grant to the Latino Theater Company (LTC) to support the 2014 National Latino Theater Festival and conference.TTheater FT Professor and LTC head Jose Luis Valenzuela will ...

UCLA, NBC4 and the Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy & Jobs have joined together to co-host a jobs-focused mayoral debate on Monday, Jan. 28, at Royce Hall. The debate will be broadcast live on NBC4 from 7 to 8 p.m. and will...

Todd Presner, professor of Germanic languages and literature, digital humanities and comparative literature; Peter Lunenfeld, professor of design and media arts; and Johanna Drucker, professor of information studies, have co-authored the book ...

The Jan. 28 event at UCLA, to be broadcast live on KNBC-Channel 4, will feature the four major candidates discussing issues related to jobs and the economy.

Fourth graders at Earl Warren Elementary School, a Title 1 school located in an economically depressed area of Lake Elsinore, Calif., recently conducted molecular biology research and learned how to extract DNA from split peas using...

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."They ate together. They cried together. They said how sad it was to lose the dead boy…And they reached...

Neurologists add benomyl to a growing list of chemicals tied to the disease and propose a wholly new target for future Parkinson's therapies.

With nearly 23 million people across the African continent living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts across the globe are working feverishly to stem the epidemic. Among them is UCLA’s Pamina M. Gorbach, a behavioral epidemiologist whose...

Robert Murrell Stevenson, 96, an emeritus professor of musicology at UCLA and a preeminent scholar who contributed significantly to the historical record of Spanish and American music, died Dec. 22 of natural causes in Santa Monica. During his tenure ...

The endowment comes from the estate of late UC regent Frank Clark and his wife, Dorothy, benefactors who helped create leading-edge UCLA urology centers.

UCLA took the No. 6 spot among the nation's 100 best-value colleges in Kiplinger's annual survey, which looks at academic quality, cost and financial aid.

Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA and author of "The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism." Her op-ed appeared originally today in the Los Angeles Times.   On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate...

Zombies, even more than handsome vampires, are ubiquitous in today’s pop culture, from hit TV shows to video games. But did you that the zombi actually comes to us from the Vodou culture of Haiti? Join the Fowler Museum at...