It becomes difficult to rely on the right public policy measures when we're not able to isolate precisely why our population’s weight skyrocketed at the end of the 20th century and has since stabilized.

A delegation of UC graduate students and administrators talked to lawmakers in Sacramento to tell them about the importance of graduate research to the state.

With thousands of adopted children arriving in the U.S. each year, the International Adoption and Travel Clinic provides reviews of potential adoptees' health records, medical assessments and other support services.

The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows using satellite images.

Two UCLA environmental experts will be part of a free panel discussion on March 19 focused on water and its importance, especially in the midst of California’s drought.   Madelyn Glickfield, assistant director for outreach and strategic...

An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 4.4 rolled through Los Angeles at 6:25 Monday morning. Campus officials had no received no reports of damage or injuries but continue checking.

The suspect, who is not a student, was taken into custody shortly after 1 p.m. today in the Janss Steps area of campus. He had demanded a student's cellphone.

Andrew Flores is the Public Opinion Project director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and Ph.D candidate of political science at UC Riverside. This commentary appeared in the March 19, 2014, edition of the Washington...

The fifth installment of the annual conference will be held at UCLA on April 4 and will feature panelists from industry and academia discussing the forces shaping TV production and consumption in the 21st century.

Postdoctoral scholar Nicole Mirra questions claims that the Common Core emphasizes civic responsibility and looks at what the new standards are really doing to prepare students to be citizens.

New UCLA research suggests that it's greater muscle mass -- not a good body mass index -- that makes older Americans less likely to die prematurely.

The achievements of UCLA staff members Quanna Batiste, Daniel Ionazzi are recognized.

The researchers used an innovative technique called clumped isotope thermometry to help determine temperature patterns dating to the last ice age, 20,000 years ago.

More than 10 years after the battle began with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, clinicians are still grappling with how to treat and prevent it.

Janine Berridge has worked and traveled throughout Africa. As a UCLA public policy student, she is participating at a high level to gain the experiences she needs to continue to improve the lives of people around her.

Deanna Jordan, a 28-year-old single mom whose personal journey took her from Compton to UCLA, launched the Compton Pipeline Taskforce to give back to her community.

A report by a team led by a UCLA professor finds that current methods of collecting and reporting data on Asian American and Pacific Islander students conceal significant disparities.

Officials will break ground on facilities at the Los Angeles State Historic Park that will showcase innovative installations created at UCLA's IMLab as a result of a partnership between the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and California State Parks.

In the magazine's 2015 rankings, more than two dozen UCLA schools and programs were rated among the top in the U.S., reflecting the campus's broad academic excellence.

More than 4,000 UCLA researchers, staff and student lab personnel picked up lab coats, eyewear and other protective gear during a weeklong event in the Pauley Pavilion Club Room.

UCLA engineering professor Yoram Cohen's Gray2Blue system cleans up a home's gray water for reuse in irrigating the garden. It could save Californians billions of gallons of clean water every day.

UCLA researchers have confirmed the spider-like metastatic activity of melanoma cells outside the bloodstream and shown that ultraviolet radiation makes them more efficient and deadly.

Large detectors could potentially see a dark matter signal in the next few years, said UCLA's David Cline, who organizes the biennial conference.

The exhibtion examines the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between individuals and communities in Africa and the land on which they live.

The campus also maintained its status as one of the world's top 10 schools overall in the London Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.