Policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research explores the role of Medicaid and other factors.

UC faculty and staff will soon receive an email asking them to complete a brief, voluntary survey about their disability status.

Aaron S. Cohen, a Southern California engineering entrepreneur and an influential and generous supporter of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, died on March 21 in Los Angeles.

William J. McCarthy, UCLA adjunct professor of public health, writes about the failed experiment to improve on Mother Nature’s options for fatty food by using “healthier” trans fat.

Hosted by Jeanne and Tony Pritzker, the star-studded event raised $650,000 to support UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability research and education initiatives.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is normally reserved for transplant recipients, but quick-thinking hospital staff used it on James Manzi, who looks forward to 80th birthday April 6.

UCLA's Eugene Volokh, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, says that the Colorado law is ill-defined and wide open to arbitrary enforcement.

UCLA life scientist Amy Rowat's tasty springtime demonstrations seek to advance the public's understanding of science through food, and food through science.

UCLA students had a lot of opportunities this spring break to travel near and far in order to grow intellectually as well as personally through public service.

Caribbean fighting conch used to be harvested with more meat, but evolved to mature at a smaller size.

Granting businesses a religious exemption from offering health care plans that cover birth control, says UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, would open the door to religious-based discrimination against LGBT people.

This latest transformative gift from Geffen promises to influence medical research and care for generations to come.

Friday was the day when U.S. medical students rip open envelopes and learn where they’ve been accepted for residency, the next phase of their training as physicians.

After receiving the campus’s highest honor, the secretary-general spoke of efforts to mobilize citizens around the world to help address issues including climate change and women’s rights.

The internationally respected arts curator comes to UCLA from the School of Performing Arts at Australia’s University of Melbourne. Her tenure begins May 1.

UCLA's slang dictionary, now out in its latest version, has become an institution on the campus, where it has provided "eargasms" since 1989.

Longtime UCLA supporters Lynda and Stewart Resnick have made pledges totaling $4 million to campus programs in medicine, law and art as part of the Bruin Scholars Initiative.

In an interview, UCLA Physics Professor David Saltzberg shares what it’s like working as thescience consultant on the hit CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”

President Obama should exercise his executive privileges by halting deportations and providing immediate relief to the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the shadows.

As part of the Healthy Campus Initiative, UCLA is joining the nationwide movement that was pioneered by the late Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey.

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has managed to find new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his no-nonsense organic chemistry class.

Students in a UCLA archaeology class on the Inca Empire devised board games based on the history and culture of what was the largest civilization in pre-Columbian America.

Federico Saiz and Vicente Estevez provided a classic example of how Anderson's M.B.A. students can leverage their time at business school to build a successful enterprise from the ground up.

Powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley.

UCLA law professor Adam Winkler argues that Hobby Lobby should lose its challenge to Obamacare at the Supreme Court, because corporations have some personal rights.