At 83, Sid Thompson, the first African American superintendent of Los Angeles schools 18 years ago, continues to mentor professionals in leadership in schools for Center X.

UCLA scientists report that sixth-graders who went just five days without glancing at a smartphone, television or other screen did substantially better at reading emotions than counterparts who used electronic devices.

The UCLA Foundation is providing funds to people whose vehicles were destroyed or seriously damaged in the flooding caused by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water main break July 29.

UCLA Anderson assistant dean for diversity initiatives says that L.A.'s rich diversity makes it an ideal setting for forging leaders in our multicultural world.

The researchers' findings could lead to cancer treatments that are more effective with smaller doses and to therapies that could potentially eradicate the HIV virus.

A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

Efforts to hit Gov. Brown’s water reduction target could have unintended, and potentially harmful, consequences for the health of Californians and their communities.

Forty years ago, it was unthinkable to live a life with an artificial heart, with someone else’s transplanted heart or with an assist-heart pump. Today, the technological advances of modern medicine make this possible. But how does that change a human being?

Luskin Dean Franklin Gilliam says citing statistics about racial disparities can be persuasive for reform advocates, contrasting a recent Stanford study that said the statistics were an ineffective persuasive tool.

A UCLA-led study has identified a protein that appears to play a key role in protecting people infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis from developing the active form of the disease.

The Student Leadership Academy places recent university graduates with different social justice organizations and labor unions in Southern California. The program is sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Labor Center.

Urban planning professor Donald Shoup says that property owners should be required to fix their broken sidewalks when they sell their property.

UCLA-led research finds that a variant of an existing vaccine offers stronger protection against both diseases and with the addition of a particular protein, further boosts protection against leprosy.

Inspired by her memories of her daughter, Paulinda Babbini created a nonprofit to raise money to fund the work of a UCLA scientist who focuses on gynecological cancers.

In its new Academic Ranking of World Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks UCLA second among U.S. public universities and 12th overall for the fourth consecutive year.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block writes about the new science behind the disruption wrought by jet lag, unusual hours and bright tablet screens.

Minorities had not been well represented in clinical trials of these devices, and the large-scale, two-year study sought to bridge this knowledge gap.

A non-credit UCLA class for international students and foreign faculty teaches idioms, pop culture and campus life, with a new emphasis on slang, L.A. neighborhoods and foodie havens.

Through shared decision-making, patients and their physicians become true collaborators in determining the best course of care.

UCLA has made emergency assistance and interest-free loans available to people whose vehicles were destroyed or seriously damaged in the flooding caused by the recent water main break.

Employees still adjusting to the recent flooding enjoy eating, relaxing and dancing at the 10th annual thank you celebration for staff from every campus department.

Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder can develop in adults even with no explicit memory of an early childhood trauma, UCLA psychologists report Aug. 15 in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

Willeke Wendrich first developed an interest in ancient Egyptian archaeology as a 20-year-old undergraduate student. Now an esteemed faculty member in UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, she’s made a career out of her lifelong passion

Sunland Window Cleaning, the window washing vendor for Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, created Superhero Day to bring joy to sick children by having costume-clad window washers appear outside children's hospital rooms.

UCLA is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive environment for our entire campus community. We take every complaint of sexual misconduct seriously, and offer a comprehensive range of care options for survivors.