The UCLA Vanpool Program is one of the largest employer-based vanpool programs in California.

Johnese Spisso, a nationally recognized academic health care leader, will oversee all operations of UCLA’s hospitals and clinics as well as the health system’s regional outreach strategy, effective Feb. 8.

English professor Matthew Fisher writes about the history of reproducing manuscripts and what has been lost as duplication and widespread dissemination became easier.

College-going rates have soared in the area around the UCLA Community School, which opened in L.A.'s Koreatown in 2009.

The plan is a key step in UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, which aims to move the county to 100 percent renewable energy, 100 percent local water and enhanced ecosystem health by 2050.

The approach focuses on a protein called p53, which is commonly mutated in women who have high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

Through a systematic review of Alzheimer’s studies, Ron Brookmeyer’s team at UCLA has found that the rate of being diagnosed with the disease doubles every five years in older populations.

Data may still underestimate the nation’s homicide rate, researchers say.

This comprehensive survey opens in February and includes nearly 2,000 works, the inspiration for which Montoya drew from the field workers, farm towns, and port cities of post-World War II California.

Reiss was an accomplished physical chemist and theorist in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Michelle Caswell, an assistant professor of archival studies at UCLA, has helped launch an online archive that compiles first-person narratives.

The founding director of UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center is now vice chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences and chief executive officer of UCLA Health. And he’s still in awe of the brain and its complicated choreography.

UCLA Anderson alumna Sandy Tesch Wilkins is part of a solid core of Anderson students and alumni who are intent on putting their business skills to use in positive ways to have social impact.

UCLA junior transfer student Jendi Samai is one of thousands of community college students whose transition to a four-year college has been supported by UCLA's Center for Community College Partnerships.

We have always pondered the mysteries of the mind. Now, for the first time, we are beginning to unlock those mysteries. And the implications are extraordinary.

UCLA scientists have launched a historic effort to tackle and treat depression, the world’s largest health problem.

The founding director of UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center has brought his sense of form and function to overseeing the campus’s medical enterprise.

Brain mapping enables scientists to see in real time the processes — both normal and aberrant — at work inside our heads.

Thirty years ago, when athletes hit their heads, they were expected to “suck it up” and get back in the game. Today, sports concussions are on the front burner.

Kay Redfield Jamison knows depressive illnesses as both a patient and a doctor.

We live in the shadow of our achievements, says Dr. Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

Between ages 12 and 24, the brain undergoes tremendous change and is primed for innovative thinking.

Assistant Professor Patrick Allard and his colleagues have found a new way to test the toxicity of everyday chemicals.

UCLA is a partner in fighting childhood obesity.

The UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute pioneered the idea of interdisciplinary research.