Five UCLA experts from across the campus recently assembled a big-picture view of the political turmoil, economic crisis and investigation into widespread corruption that are shaking Brazil to its core.  

UCLA graduate student Tyler Watson has been honored by University of California President Janet Napolitano with the President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership. He is one of three UC students who were recognized by Napolitano on May 11.

A highly respected scholar with expertise in space plasma physics, Ashour-Abdalla also had a passion for teaching.

Though we’re hardwired to made judgments based on limited observational data, advances in computing could hold promise for overcoming our implicit biases, suggest two UCLA Anderson professors.

The head of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate talks about the impact of the $1.86 billion, 80,000-seat NFL stadium and 6,000-seat performance venue now under construction in Inglewood.

The sites perform sophisticated, real-time reasoning to ensure that a specific vehicle could be manufactured with the consumer’s preferred combination of options and features.

Dr. Alice Kuo and Dr. Angelica Zen argue that gun safety is a relevant issue for children's doctors and, if discussed in appointments, could reduce the number of accidents and deaths involving children.

UCLA extends a spirited Bruin welcome this Saturday to 7,000 admitted transfer students and their family members.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall met Tuesday with stakeholders from across the energy ecosystem at UCLA’s Kerckhoff Hall to discuss how Los Angeles can meet its energy goals.

UCLA scientists have recently partnered with the Sandia National Laboratory to develop special screening libraries based on a gene-editing technology called CRISPR.

A physical chemist who joined the faculty in 1948, Scott died on May 1. He was 94.

The finding, from a UCLA study, might help identify which women can be expected to lose bone at a faster-than-average rate.

The Royal Geographical Society is awarding its Founder's Medal, one of two Royal Medals it is presenting this year, to UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs professor Michael Storper for his leadership in human and economic geography.

Inner peace and a flexible body may not be the most valuable benefits that yoga and meditation have to offer, suggests new research by a UCLA-led team of neuroscientists.

Mutations in mitochondrial DNA can cause devastating diseases that mainly affect tissues and cells with high-energy demands, like the brain and muscles.

The couple, both UCLA alumni, received the campus’s highest honor for more than six decades of philanthropy and leadership that has benefited myriad organizations. 

The researchers chalk up Denmark’s success to many factors, including the country’s universal health care system and the availability of free treatment for all people who have been infected with HIV.

The UCLA alumna and faculty member was said by Martha Graham to have the rare ability to “capture the instant of a dance and transform it into a timeless gesture.”

While University of California campuses have never asked about an applicant's criminal history as part of the application process, the practice is used by other universities.

A UCLA study shows that the drug pembrolizumab also has fewer side effects than traditional treatments.

Since 1999, UCLA can count 19 winners of the annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which support exemplary students as they pursue graduate school.

Small enough to fit on a standard silicon computer chip, the device developed at UCLA Engineering could be used for improved timing, attosecond physics and measuring universal constants.

According to the ranking by College Choice, the independent online publication that’s dedicated to helping students and their families find the right college, UCLA is the only public university in the top 10 list.

When the project to set up single-stall, all-gender restrooms at UCLA is completed by the end of June, there will be approximately 320 such facilities throughout the campus.

“MAO to NOW: Photographs by Stephen Verona” features 32 images contrasting China in 1980 with China in 2014. The exhibition runs from May 15 until Sept. 11.