The research could help improve the design and environmental impact of reactors, which are used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products.

Spend Saturday evening with the makers of "An American Werewolf in London" (1981) to get in the mindset for Halloween. The UCLA Film and Television Archive will screen the ghoulish film as well as "Michael Jackson's Thriller"...

The campus portal that students log into for access to their Bruin email and campus goings-on just got significantly more useful: An upgraded MyUCLA, launched earlier this week, enables students to register for classes, check their grades, track...

Carol Burnett, who discovered her love for acting and knack for comedy as an undergraduate at UCLA, got the best laughs as well as the highest honor Sunday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

The gift, from collectors Jay T. and Deborah R. Last, includes 92 stunning wood and ivory figures, masks and tools made by the Lega people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Officials brought a simple message to students at the Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets: UCLA and the University of California want you.

Vijay Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has announced his plans to step down as dean on June 30, 2015, and return to the faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.   A...

Dr. Jody Heymann, an internationally renowned researcher on health and social policy, is among 70 new members and 10 foreign associates honored this year.

Vladimir Keilis-Borok, a UCLA seismologist and mathematical geophysicist who, along with his research team, developed a method intended to accurately predict earthquakes months in advance, died Oct. 19 after a long illness. He was 92.

All Bruins are invited to learn about how to get involved with making UCLA a greener place at Wednesday’s sixth annual Sustainability Fair. Nearly two dozen organizations, including the UCLA Institute of the Environment and...

Using the clock, researchers can gauge the age of diverse human organs and tissues. Unexpectedly, they found some parts of the anatomy, like women's breast tissue, age faster than the rest of the body.

Researchers will examine how non-injected drugs and alcohol may directly interact with the virus and other infectious diseases to increase health threats.

A UCLA banner in the rotunda at City Hall on UCLA Day in Downtown L.A. Two outstanding UCLA community service programs were lauded for their "exemplary commitment to improving quality of life in Los Angeles" during a ceremony at L.A.’s City...

Alfred Herrera receives national award for improving higher-ed access for underrepresented  students Alfred Herrera, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Partnerships in the Center for Community College Partnerships, has received the 2013...

Brenda Stevenson is a UCLA professor of history and African American studies, as well as author of "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins...

"Spring Silkworms," an 80-year-old Chinese film regarded as one of the first successful attempts to weave progressive politics into Chinese popular cinema, will be shown this Sunday at the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum as part of...

Syria, October 2012. (Photo: © 2012 Rami Alhames.) Used under Creative Commons License CC BY 2.0. Despite an international agreement to rid Syria of its chemical weapons, experts at a recently convened UCLA forum expressed pessimism about...

UCLA doctoral students Daniel Lim and Steve Palley are the entrepreneurial creators of ApplyMap.com.

The researchers analyzed subjects' brains using a branch of mathematics known as graph theory, which is often used to study air-traffic patterns.

During his tenure as UCLA chancellor, Albert Carnesale laid the foundation for a legacy of institutional transformation in the areas of research, teaching, community service and residential life.

While the overall number of kids who drink sodas daily has started to decline, there has been an alarming 8 percent jump in consumption among teens.

Ann Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and the co-Faculty Director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. This opinion piece was originally published on Oct. 15 in Legal...

Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA and the author of "Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination." This op-ed appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 13, 2013.        The...

Jane Margolis is a senior researcher at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) and author of "Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing" (MIT Press, 2008) and "Unlocking the Clubhouse:...

While only a third of laser hair-removal procedures are performed by non-physicians, 75 percent of hair-removal lawsuits involve non-physicians, said UCLA's H. Ray Jalian.