Richard Creese has spent 31 years teaching UCLA students to write. Now the author of eight unpublished novels is the embodiment of the lesson that persistence pays off.

The jazz legend mentored musicians, and in this spirit the virtuoso grad students study with modern masters like Herbie Hancock and Kenny Burrell, and in turn share their expertise with thousands of students in local schools.

Coherent diffractive imaging transforms the conventional view of microscopy by replacing the physical lens with a computational algorithm.

For the 2015–16 academic year, 20 Big Bang Theory scholars will be selected to receive financial assistance. Each year in perpetuity, five additional scholars will be chosen.

The researchers say that women with a high risk for breast cancer recurrence benefit by having chemotherapy as part of their treatment, but for those at low risk, chemo has no added value.

“The brain has a major system that seems predisposed to get us ready to be social in our spare moments,” says UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman.

The new vice chancellor, dean and CEO spoke about his new roles and how he wants to make UCLA’s medical enterprise a John Wooden-like dynasty of excellence in health science.

New research evaluates effectiveness of a health plan designed for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes.

Students, student veterans, faculty, staff and community members came together today to collect 90,000 U.S. flags that were placed at gravesites at Los Angeles National Cemetery on Memorial Day in honor of American military men and women.

Prime Time Games brings full-inclusion sports teams of students from disadvantaged schools and the developmentally disabled to campus for a day with UCLA student-athletes as coaches and mentors.

UCLA alumna Esmeralda Garcia, who began high school reading at a fifth-grade level, returned to her high school to address students at a rally attended by UC President Janet Napolitano.

UCLA’s annual United Way campaign, which helps provide housing, education and jobs for the less fortunate, runs May 26-June 5.

Carol Kruse, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in immunological therapy for brain cancer, passed away on March 28 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 61.

Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, the LGBT center bolsters UCLA’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse campus community.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes about how teacher evaluations that include hours of observation and student feedback, among other criteria, foster trust between educators and those grading them.

In a message to the UCLA campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. will be leaving UCLA and praised him for his leadership in advancing UCLA’s civic engagement.

A new University of California video, ‘Preparing for Retirement,’ guides faculty and staff through the process of retirement.

M.V. Lee Badgett of the Williams Institute writes that in the May 22 election, voters in historically Catholic Ireland, might legalize nationwide same-sex marriage before Americans.

Research by scientists at the Broad Stem Cell Research Center shows that the cells carrying parents’ genes to a child are unprotected during part of the prenatal stage of development.

University of California employees are invited to vote for new representatives on the UC Retirement System (UCRS) Advisory Board May 19-June 17.

UCLA scholar Ramesh Srinivasan has established a center that will link scholars who want to study the role digital technology plays in cultures globally.

Findings are part of a comprehensive new study that tracked young children’s health in California from 2003 to 2012.

With recipes inspired by global cuisines and ingredients like spelt, kale and harissa, the recipes UCLA chefs create for students sound, look and taste like food from a trendy restaurant.

Dr. Atilla Uner, a UCLA clinical professor of emergency medicine, served on a U.S. search and rescue team that helped find survivors of the Nepal earthquake.

Education professor Mike Rose writes in the Washington Post that character education is no substitute for improving poor students’ lives by addressing inequality.