'Street Talk' students (left to right) Dai Jung Chung, Jiu Hua Zhang, Hussain Alsherhri and Reema Aldahlawi. Photo by Celia Soudry. Hussain Alsherhri’s first slang encounter after arriving at UCLA from Saudi Arabia was with his...

UCLA researchers have found that older HIV-positive men who have sex with men and who smoke are at much higher risk of being infected with the HPVs that most often cause anal cancer.

About 100 kidney transplant recipients and their donors — all participants in various living donor transplant "chains" — reunited today at Reagan UCLA Medical Center for a holiday celebration of giving and receiving the gift of life. The...

Joyce Appleby is an emerita professor of history at UCLA and the author of "Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination." This piece appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 1.      Senators have long...

Students at predominantly Latino Roosevelt High School are reaching beyond their own neighborhood and culture to study the language, music and traditional theater of China through the Chinese Alive! program.   A...

Young Latinas who have Latino teachers and counselors as role models and participate in extracurricular activities in high school have a much better chance of educational success.

Children who spent time in an orphanage also tended to display "indiscriminate friendliness," an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers.

Parents who are poor and members of a minority group experienced more financial stress and more stress from major life events than parents who are either just poor or just part of a minority group.

Thousands of fans set the stage this week's UCLA-USC game with the annual "Beat 'SC" bonfire and rally, where the Bruin faithful promised to "burn Troy to the ground."

Radiologists are studying an extremely rare 14-foot, 250-pound oarfish that washed ashore near San Diego last month to trace the evolution of its skeleton and unique swimming style.

"Wow, that’s one big fish!" That was the reaction of everyone at UCLA’s Translational Research Imaging Center when a monster fish story became reality in the form of a rare 14-foot, 250-pound oarfish.

Catch a free screening of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” on Sunday, Dec. 8, 11 a.m. at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. Enlivened by the antics of all your favorite Muppets, including Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, Miss...

The discovery of the cells that contribute to the healthy growth of the placenta could help scientists track fetal development — and identify factors that cause it to go awry.

Gudelia Bustamante is thinking big when it comes to planning for the future. Camping, fishing and a trip to visit her son stationed at an Air Force base in Germany are on her to-do list.      While that may not sound all that...

More than 4,000 people swarmed the Court of Sciences and Kinsey Pavilion to participate in a scientific open house where children (and adults) could learn by observing and participating in dozens of live demos and experiments.

Robert Iger was honored with the award, named for legendary UCLA baketball coach and leadership expert John Wooden, at a gala event in Beverly Hills.

Professor Ann Williams and Dr. Roger Detels began collaborating on AIDS research and treatment in China 15 years ago — around the same time that World AIDS Day, marked every year on Dec. 1, was established to unite people around the globe in the...

An exhibit currently on view through Dec. 14 at UCLA Hillel tells the story of more than 20,000 Jewish men, women, and children who were shielded from persecution and death in the Holocaust by living in a "Designated Area for Stateless Refugees," a...

More than 75 international students will go home for Thanksgiving this year  — go home, that is, with UCLA alumni who have invited them to join their families for the holiday on Thursday. In a new program led by UCLA Alumni Affairs in ...

In Memoriam: Stella Nadelman Krieger, manager of the Fowler Museum Store who made it popular stop because of the unique, handcrafted items from around the world she displayed there, died Nov. 21.

Ethan Elkind is the Bank of America Climate Policy Associate at the UC Berkeley and UCLA schools of law and serves as the lead author of UCLA-UC Berkeley’s grant-funded series of policy reports on business solutions to combat climate change....

Todd Presner is a professor of Germanic languages and comparative literature, director of the Center for Jewish Studies, and chair of the digital-humanities program at UCLA. This article appeared Nov. 25 in the Chronicle of Higher...

Robert Dallek is a professor emeritus in history in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA and, most recently, the author of “Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House.” This op-ed was published...

Steven L. Spiegel is a professor of political science in the College of Letters and Science and the director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA, and a scholar at the Israel Policy Forum. This op-ed appeared Nov. 24 in the...

UCLA's fellows, honored for distinguished efforts to advance science, are among 338 scholars named this year to the prestigious scientific society.