As part of UC Day in DC, a delegation from UCLA, including eight students, urged members of Congress to keep college accessible and affordable.

“The results were about as good as you could hope for,” said Lara Ray, a UCLA associate professor of psychology and director of the UCLA Addictions Laboratory.

In his recently released book, UCLA English professor Joseph Bristow delves into Oscar Wilde’s obsession with obscure poet Thomas Chatterton, whom many scholars have long assumed Wilde plagiarized.

Social media could provide health care providers with useful background on the unique needs of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

Psychiatrist Peter Whybrow explores the epidemic of debt in modern America and how consumerist culture has warped Americans’ brains into reckless spending.

Madeleine Holly-Rosing has combined her love of history and science fiction to create the award-winning comic “Boston Metaphysical Society.”

For 15 years the UCLA education research center has conducted workshops to help thousands of Los Angeles high school students prepare for their Advanced Placement exams.

Ten students whose work embodied a “passion for learning” were chosen this week as winners of UCLA’s 2015 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Thursday that she and Gov. Jerry Brown have reached a historic agreement that provides UC with significant new revenue while capping resident tuition at its current level for the next two years.

“Pitch Perfect 2” making you crave a cappella? Check out these performances by Bruin groups.

Daniel J.B. Mitchell says that to help avoid a repetition of contentious funding battles around the UC budget, the 55-year-old state Master Plan for Higher Education needs updating.

The loss of elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses would have drastic implications not only for the species themselves, but also for other animals and the ecosystems in which they live.

Nearly 300 students in the 7th-9th grades in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with teachers and other adults, have taken ‘Wallace Walks’ through UCLA’s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden this year.

The team, led by Dr. Joanne Weidhaas, found that acute estrogen withdrawal was associated with breast cancer in women with the KRAS-variant.

The 20th annual event benefited UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Innovative maps in the new “Water Atlas” compiled by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation show which communities face what types of threats.

The gift will support priorities such as student financial aid and fellowships, faculty and research funding, and program innovations, and provide seed funding for a new building with technology-enhanced classrooms.

In a Q&A, M.V. Lee Badgett, UCLA Williams Distinguished Scholar, says that showing people data helps bring discrimination to light and counters stereotypes.

Jayathi Murthy will serve as the next dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, starting in January 2016.

Frequency of drinking correlates with a higher likelihood of supervisory neglect by parents but a lower likelihood of physical neglect, according to a UCLA-led study.

A new report from UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment provides recommendations on how to harness AB 2516 to enhance coastal climate change preparedness in California.

Marketing and psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer says that it’s not the NCAA, but rather the players’ expectations of their peers.

UCLA’s annual bike week is in full swing, offering regular cyclists and the bike-curious three “pit stops” from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Uber executive Rachel Whetstone, Target CEO Brian Cornell and U.S. Rep. Lois Capps are among the prominent figures who will speak at UCLA’s 2015 graduation ceremonies, which begin May 15.

Findings suggest that similar isotopic signatures could exist for many biological processes, including some that are difficult to observe with current tools.