UCLA Magazine invited nine campus and community leaders to a discussion on how to improve diversity.

For 20 years, the Mercy Ship Anastasis’ Gary Parker has been treating the facial tumors and deformities of the forgotten poor.

In 1941, UCLA’s Victory Bell was stolen by six Trojans.

The world is running out of freshwater. But a determined trio of scientists at UCLA is working to help save a parched planet.

Chancellor Albert Carnesale stepped down June 30 after nine years at the helm.

Whenever you are out in public or on the job, hidden cameras have you in their sights. In post-9/11 America, we’ll trade privacy for security. But at what cost?

The American family is increasingly isolated, as the stress of modern life inexorably pushes them apart. Can we learn to reconnect with each other?

Antronette (Toni) Yancey, 48, an associate professor in the UCLA School of Public Health, is an expert on chronic disease prevention intervention.

A chat with the bear who stands guard over Westwood Plaza.

Digital piracy on campus pits kids against corporations, artists against audiences. UCLA is leading the search for solutions.

Los Angeles’ rich heritage in gospel music has gone underappreciated. Now a UCLA archiving project sings the city’s praises.

The first national study of day laborers paints a bleak picture of abuse, uncertainty and discrimination. A report on the war over illegal immigration.

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is evaluating the hydrogen fuel-cell car.

A new study finds the conservative “Wall Street Journal” tilts to the left more than any other major news outlet.

Two new studies suggest that women may have evolved to want to stray during the most fertile part of their cycle.

John Wooden and Valorie Kondos Field — two extraordinary UCLA coaches — discuss life, love, faith and, of course, coaching.

UCLA is both a framer of the ethical debate and a primary player in the science of stem cell research.

What fuels the perpetual-motion machine that is Antonio Villaraigosa? One of the early sparks, says L.A.’s first Latino mayor in 133 years, was UCLA.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive preserves — and presents — more than 100 years of moving-picture history.

The true tale of an intrepid team of robot-lovers, their quest to win a Pentagon-sponsored race through the desert and how UCLA backed their play.

This quartet of stellar new athletes wants to burn and to learn. As they stretch their limbs and their minds, we expect the records to fall.

Filmmaker and Emmy winner Stanley Rubin expects to earn his degree this spring.

An international team of chemists and molecular biologists has discovered a fundamental molecular mechanism that seems to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, mad cow disease and two-dozen other degenerative and fata...

Two decades in the making, composer Ian Krouse’s “Lorca, Child of the Moon” prepares for its world premiere.

The gulf that separates us from the happiness we crave is widening. Peter Whybrow and UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute are trying to heal that rift.