A team led by UCLA researchers found that the brain's response to viewing sexual images is related to the number of sex partners a person has had in the previous year.

A UCLA research team has developed a new class of materials that could lead to more energy-efficient and "greener" electronic devices.

Opinion: How a terrible Supreme Court decision about player pianos created the cover song and laid a foundation for creativity.

Marking its 50th year, the UCLA School of Dentistry is celebrating its five-decade rise to becoming one of the leading research-intensive dental schools in the nation with a yearlong celebration that will start this weekend.

Dental student Ryan Brennan made it possible for 200-plus patients to get dental care. Urban planning student Connor Johnson has a similar passion to help people in poverty.

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

Identifying enzyme catalysts that improve the speed and efficiency of the drug-production process can be a major boon. Figuring out exactly why a particular enzyme works so well, UCLA researchers say, is an altogether different quest.

Brian Lehigh, Tara Noorani and Michael Oshiro were recognized for projects serving impoverished veterans, the homeless and incarcerated youth.

In the late '70s, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett proved it's never too late to pursue one's dreams, leaving a successful career in the corporate world to study archaeology at UCLA. Now she's giving back.

A unique partnership between UCLA and the LAUSD, the pilot school, which serves a largely low-income immigrant community, has made impressive strides in engendering educational success and promoting a college-going culture.

They went to Capitol Hill when their project on epilepsy was selected to represent the best of undergraduate research in California.

Approximately 600 students will be presenting their research in the humanities and the social, life and physical sciences.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA has announced its 2014–15 program, featuring complex and collaborative work from renowned contemporary artists in music, theater, dance and spoken word.

Penelope (Penny) Hein-Unruh, UCLA associate vice chancellor for academic advising in the College of Letters and Science, died May 8 in her home in Los Angeles.

Former UCLA track and cross country star Meb Keflezighi, who won the 2014 Boston Marathon, was honored today the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.

Two new gifts will fund research in stem cell science and digestive diseases and support faculty recruitment at two of UCLA's renowned research centers.

President Obama met for a few minutes at LAX with students in a UCLA seminar taught by actor and former White House aide Kal Penn. The class: "Hope, Change, and Fist Bumps: Young Americans and The Obama Presidency."

UCLA information studies professor Michelle Caswell’s new book examines the ethical questions of archiving and displaying documentation of human rights violations and atrocities.

A rolling water treatment plant designed by UCLA researchers made a pit stop on campus this week before heading north to the San Joaquin Valley, where it will help address California’s inadequate water supply.

Eleven UCLA students received awards as part of the sixth annual UCLA Library Awards Day.

Though health has improved for Latin Americans in recent decades childhood malnutrition, anemia and vaccine delivery problems persist.

A grant from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will enable the UCLA School of Dentistry to provide dental care for more than 1,000 people with HIV or AIDS for the next two years.

UCLA social psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff says that big data can help to make the world a better place — not be known only as an invasion of privacy.

UCLA professor emeritus Howard Suber has played a pivotal role in the creation of key programs in UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, including the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Producer's Program, which has helped launched many a Hollywood career.

Using objective visual characteristics could help increase the accuracy of fingerprint identification and help labs assess which print comparisons might require special care.