Professor Shlomo Benartzi writes that when it comes to saving money people recognize the benefit of protection from one’s self.

To explain why L.A.'s fortunes started to fall and the Bay Area's began to rise, Michael Storper and Zev Yaroslavsky discuss what happened after 1970.

UCLA-led study of DNA patterns in tumor cells suggests that the abundance of aberrant genetic signatures common in more aggressive cancers is not random.

Bret Stephens gave an eloquent, impassioned defense of the truth and the journalist’s responsibility to search it out.

The terahertz part of the spectrum has potential uses in biological sensing and medical imaging and chemical identification.

The report examines hiring of women and minorities for 200 theatrical film releases in 2015, as well as 1,206 TV, cable and digital platform shows from 2014–15.

There are important differences between the two flexible spending accounts as to what happens to money remaining in your account at the end of the plan year.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

UCLA is tied for eighth in the United States among institutions with the largest number of Sloan Research Fellowships.

UCLA hosted Richard Riordan, James Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa as part of the “Why History Matters: Mayors Past on the Present and Future of Los Angeles.”

Professor Alex Hall’s research shows that, as temperatures warm in the Sierra Nevada, a deluge could overwhelm California’s patchwork network of dams and reservoirs that currently supplies 60 percent of the state's water.

Dr. Richard Boxer, a visiting professor of urology at UCLA, argues that giving states money to provide high-deductible plans with health savings accounts could save Medicaid.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs researchers have been selected to join the Research Network on Misdemeanor Justice, based at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, to study policing patterns related to misdemeanors in the city of Los Angeles.

Thanks to the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, more than 60 recordings of performances by trumpeter, composer and bandleader Don Ellis (1934-1978) are now available for your online listening pleasure.

The public school is envisioned as a cornerstone for a rigorous, personalized college-prep education, tailored to the needs of its neighborhood and drawing on expertise from UCLA.

A UCLA team creates a "smart" mobile tool that may be used to diagnose and treat serious infections and diseases.

The center will foster teaching, research and collaborations across campus and beyond the university that will direct historical insights to shaping policies and solving problems.

New UCLA-led research shows which strains of viruses that are transmitted depend on whether transmission occurs during pregnancy or through breastfeeding.

A team of canine cupids made a special delivery to hospitalized, pediatric patients at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, on Valentine’s Day. 

Lee, a 26-year veteran of the Beverly Hills Police Department, will begin at UCLA on March 13.

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World will be the first center in the Western Hemisphere that aims to advance the knowledge of ancient Iranian languages, history and religions.

Aomawa Shields studies the climate on distant planets. But she also earned an M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television and worked as an actress.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music joins the international music community with a program of chamber works, panels and lectures honoring Adams as he turns 70.

Matthew Robb, the new chief curator of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, believes we still have much to learn from the ancient cultures of the Americas.

The percentage of black students who attend completely or almost-completely non-white schools has declined since the 1990s but remains above 70 percent.