Becoming a leader of the 35,000 UCLA staffers was a natural step for Walen Ngo, the son of Vietnamese refugees, who has felt a lifelong dedication to helping others.

UCLA researchers’ study using zebrafish shows how the disease turns a repair mechanism into one that damages nerve cells. The findings could lead to treatments to prevent nerve damage in leprosy and other diseases.

The group’s research will aim to identify new strategies for combating cytomegalovirus, a frequent cause of organ rejection.

UCLA anthropologist Susan Perry finds that older, sociable monkeys are more likely to develop mannerisms and then transmit them to others.

Divided attention does impair memory, but a UCLA study found that people can still selectively focus on what is most important — even while they’re distracted.

UCLA researchers’ analysis of posts in a forum on the website Stormfront shows coping mechanisms that range from rejection to reinterpretation to acceptance.

Economist Jerry Nickelsburg advocates long-term planning that accounts for transportation and housing policy, as well as for creating incentives for more mass transit use.

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh, one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the Civil War, shares how the historic era and the Confederacy touched the state.

The program’s budget for 2016 was $2.3 million, but a UCLA report estimated that it saved the county about $5.87 million in law enforcement costs last year.

More than 1,000 people filled the Court of Sciences on Monday to view the partial eclipse of the sun.

Findings from the research, led by UCLA’s Dr. Marco Giovannini, will be used to refine and develop new therapies and treatments, which could benefit young children and adults with these syndromes.

UCLA’s Christopher Childers says the relevant genetic mutations can be easily detected through blood or saliva analysis.

In this interview the head of collections for the UCLA Film and Television Archive discusses her job and how she got into film preservation.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, which uses six criteria to measure excellence, is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Public event, featuring filtered solar telescopes for safe viewing, will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 21.

UCLA-led study is the first to examine potential adverse health effects in users of vaginal estrogen compared with non-users.

UCLA and the Los Angeles Unified School District are working together to replicate the success of their school partnership in Koreatown in South L.A.

In his award-winning book, UCLA professor Benjamin Madley meticulously details state-sanctioned killing and also intrepid resilience.

A national network of researchers gathered at UCLA to dissect findings on race, ethnicity and politics all derived from the same innovative and singular data set.

The injectable hydrogel works by forming a scaffold inside a wound that new tissue can grow around.

The research may lead to new drugs that could promote hair growth for people with baldness or alopecia, which is hair loss linked to such factors such as hormonal imbalance, stress, aging or chemotherapy.

The regimen devised by UCLA researchers has proven to kill cancer cells and eradicate acute lymphoblastic leukemia in mouse models.

UCLA environmental scientist co-authored a study that maps where fish and seafood can be sustainably farmed.

Hologram technology developed at UCLA could lead to easier and less costly diagnoses of chronic diseases in remote areas and developing countries.

Some 5,000 UCLA staffers got together on Dickson Plaza for the 13th edition of the annual mid-summer break.