The University of California today announced the release of a comprehensive expansion of its policy against sexual and domestic violence, stalking and harassment.

The UC Office of the President issued a new policy that prohibits sexual harassment and sexual violence, provides support for victims and outlines training for faculty, staff and students.

Hollywood serves as the guardian of public accolades for excellence in film and representation. Yet, its gatekeepers are still overwhelmingly white, male and old, while the world it seeks to depict is the opposite.

Questions about copyright? The updated UC Copyright website makes it easier than ever for UC faculty, students and staff to get general guidance on the topic.

Young adults who live through a recession tend to believe that success in life depends more on luck than on effort and have less confidence in public institutions, a UCLA Anderson professor has found.

UCLA undergraduates learned about the therapeutic value of yoga for the relief of back pain during the Second Annual Student Conference for Integrative Medicine on March 1 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Participants in the conference, which...

The crumbling asteroid has now divided into as many as 10 pieces, the Hubble telescope has revealed, and scientists say its breakup may be due to the effect of sunlight.

While three-quarters of students were admitted to their first-choice college in 2013, the number who actually enrolled at their preferred school hit an all-time low, as economics swayed their decisions.

The former secretary of state offered her observations about the turmoil in Ukraine and offered advice to UCLA students about how they could help reinvent the U.S. economy for the 21st century.

NASA's chief scientist for the International Space Station visited UCLA labs and talked to scientists about the potential for running experiments in zero gravity onboard the space station with the help of trained astronauts.

Ever wonder why your laptop gest so warm when you use it? It's wasted energy. But with new magenetic materials, scientists are hoping to save that energy and keep your devices cool as a cucumber.

A recent court ruling banning San Jose high school students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo prompted David Hayes-Bautista to write about the roots of Cinco de Mayo, which is, at its heart, a Mexican American holiday.

Three UCLA medical students have started an outreach group to attend community events and assist people who want to learn more about and sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Becky Barber and Lyolya Hovhannisyan founded the UCLA chapter of Flying Samaritans in 2013. With volunteer doctors and other students, they bring quality medical care to Tijuana's Colonia Margarita Moran.

Kevin Aiello, executive chef of UCLA's Bruin Plate dining hall, pedals 16 miles from Manhattan Beach to Westwood and then back again on his electric bike every day. It's helped him cope with diabetes.

The UCLA alumnus will also receive UCLA's highest honor, the UCLA Medal, which previously has been awarded to such luminaries President Bill Clinton, basketball coach John Wooden, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and UCLA alumna and astronaut Anna Lee Fisher.

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA. She is the past chair of the history department and past chair of Afro-American Studies. Her books include the award-winning "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and...

The researchers, the first to discover the combination of mechanisms that formed the Pacific Plate, used seismic tomography to detect variations in the speed of seismic waves inside the Earth.

Eric Jager's newest nonfiction thriller, "Blood Royal," looks at the brutal murder of King Charles VI's brother, the Duke of Orleans, in Paris in the midst of the Hundred Years' War.

Even those who had smoked for only a short time showed thinning of the insula, a part of the brain involved in monitoring internal states and making decisions.

D’Artagnan Scorza is the founder and executive director of the Social Justice Learning Institute in Inglewood, Calif. Scorza obtained a Ph.D. in education from UCLA, along with a B.A. in religion. He is currently a 2013-14 BALLE Fellow....

Adam Winkler is a professor of law at UCLA. He specializes in American constitutional law, and his works concerning the Second Amendment and corporate political speech rights have been quoted and cited in U.S. Supreme Court cases. This op-ed...

Two novel forms of compensation are catching on with employers -- piece rates and gain sharing, both commonly found in manufacturing.

The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the use of lymphatic mapping and sentinel-node biopsy have been a significant advance in the treatment of melanoma.

Higher temperatures and less rain are likely to lead to more infections in humans in the future, with the disease spreading north into previously unaffected areas as a result of climate change.