Shlomo Benartzi is professor and co-chair of the behavioral decision-making group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and chief behavioral economist of the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance. This op-ed appeared Feb. 20,...

Gary Rhodes is director of the Center for Global Education at UCLA. He has co-written a chapter in a recently published book, “Olympism, Olympic Education, and Learning Legacies” (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing....

UC’s Retirement Review gives UC employees their Retirement Readiness Score.

University of California President Janet Napolitano will begin sharing monthly email messages with faculty, staff and students to help foster ongoing dialogue with the UC community. The monthly emails, the first of which is slated to go out...

Hollywood got a helping hand from an unexpected partner at UCLA that’s not usually listed in the rolling credits of a TV series.

UCLA has crushed USC and 10 other competitors in the Pac-12 Fitness Challenge for the past two years, earning the title of fittest college in the Pac-12. This year’s challenge starts Monday, Feb. 24 and runs through Feb. 28. All Bruins are...

An outstanding student researcher, volunteer and athlete, Mericien Venzon epitomizes what UCLA undergrads can achieve at the highest level.

One of Lee's photo subjects was Jimmy Kirikatani, a formerly homeless artist and Japanese internment camp internee. 

John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering and public policy at UCLA and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This column appeared Feb 17. on Slate.       There has been a lot of...

At a "Thinking L.A." event co-presented by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, a panel discussed why racial diversity matters, how to bring more underrepresented students to campus and what can be done to make such students feel welcome at universities in California and around the country.

The outstanding young professors are among 126 scientists and scholars in the U.S. and Canada to receive the prestigious award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Enjoy a mix of music both modern and traditional when international Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) singer Sarah Aroeste performs a free concert, presented by the Los Angeles Sephardic Music Festival, at the Fowler Museum. On Wednesday, March 5, 7 p.m.,...

One of the first such platforms implemented by a large university, UCLA Spark utilizes social media to connect donors with faculty and students across campus.

Phil Keough, host of "The Amazing Race," leads the UCLA Bruin Marching Band down a field. The band will open the popular show's 24th season on Feb. 23. Before contestants in the season premiere of “The Amazing Race” begin their...

Fourteen?  That’s how often the average U.S. resident moves in a lifetime?   The number astonished a group of visiting high school English teachers from Brazil, who also were surprised to learn of another number that flashed onscreen...

The AlloMap test, which measures changes in gene expression, can be used to assess the risk of rejection of a transplanted heart months before such an event may occur.

Jared Diamond is professor of geography and environmental health sciences at UCLA. His best-selling books include "The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel," which received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; "Why Is Sex Fun?"; "Collapse";...

Back in the day, love potions had numbers.   Today, they have algorithms.   In 2012, UCLA Ph.D. student Chris McKinlay spent most of his time working on his dissertation dealing with high-dimensional clustering. In his spare time, he...

UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck is joining a team of reporters, analysts and other contributors who will be posting to a new website on politics and policy in The New York Times to launch in the spring.

UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck is joining a team of reporters, analysts and other contributors who will be posting to a new website on politics and policy in The New York Times that will launch in the spring.

Therapy dogs dressed in costumes made a special delivery to sick kids at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA: homemade Valentines and heartfelt good wishes. Scout, Daisy, Paco, Finn and their owners, all volunteers with UCLA's...

An analysis of dozens of studies suggests that ovulating women have evolved to prefer mates who display sexy traits but not traits typically desired in long-term mates.

The new technology shows promise for improving glaucoma treatment over time and, as a side benefit, even improved the contact lenses' durability.

UCLA and three other top-tier West Coast universities have formed an alliance to work together to increase the number of underrepresented minority Ph.D. students in the mathematical, physical and computer sciences and engineering.

While magnesium showed no benefit, the system the UCLA study set in place -- involving paramedics, hospitals and other agencies -- proved to consistently deliver fast care.