Combining presentations by professors and lively discussions, the intensive six-day workshop was organized by the UCLA Latin American Institute.

Urban planning lecturer Ted Bardacke of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will help advise Mayor Eric Garcetti.

This fall, UCLA will welcome 3,000 new transfer students to campus. Orientation helps them feel comfortable.

James Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle East history at UCLA. He is author of "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know."

The awarding of $11.6 million in federal funding from the National Cancer Institute to enable a multidisciplinary group of UCLA scientists to continue their important prostate cancer research is just the latest in a string of "big hits" for the team.

Today marks the beginning of a new era for Ted Bardacke, a lecturer in urban planning. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently named Bardacke to the post of deputy director of the new sustainability office. He begins his new role today....

Haydee Licari, a teacher of Spanish and English as a second language at Dana Middle School in San Pedro, has seen current immigration trends reflected in her classroom. In recent years, her student population has shifted from being primarily of...

Ever wish Los Angeles traffic moved better? It might if more commuters followed the lead of UCLA, where only about half of campus commuters drive alone to work.

The UCLA Specialized Program of Research Excellence team is a multidisciplinary group of scientists striving to find a cure for a cancer that will affect roughly one in six men.

James Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle East history at UCLA. He is author of "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know." This post appeared on The New York Times website Aug. 14 in the Room for Debate section, in which knowledgeable...

While on a yearlong sabbatical at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Luisa Iruela-Arispe received some happy news: She had been named the winner of the 2013 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, a $30,000 award...

Twins Aryan and Faraz Behnamjou are among  an estimated 3,000 new transfer students who will be attending UCLA this fall. Even as they were growing up in Tehran, Aryan and Faraz Behnamjou had blue and gold running in their veins. The 20...

                    Farming is flourishing in Los Angeles County, according to a new report by urban planning graduate students at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The first-ever...

Three UCLA School of Law professors, Devon Carbado, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw and Cheryl Harris, co-director of the Critical Race Studies Program, have cowritten an article about how despite a recent federal court decision banning stop-and-frisk...

UCLA is named second among U.S. public universities and 12th among all universities internationally, holding both positions for the third consecutive year.

Feuer, a partner at the firm of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, has handled a broad range of complex business law and corporate governance matters. He begins his tenure on Sept. 1.

Source: Los Angeles Sports Council Earlier this year city officials announced that Los Angeles would try to become the site for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But to win the right to host the city’s third Olympics, L.A. boosters must first...

As students listen in, engineering professor Eric Hoek, (center in plaid shirt) advise Fijian villagers on how water can be transported safely from a spring deep in the jungle. Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and...

The downloadable report and map, which details more than 1,200 urban agriculture sites, will aid city planners, food policy advocates and local growers.

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin basketball standout, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Tuesday to visit sick kids and cancer patients. Farmar signed autographs, gave out gift bags and posed with patients, like Chico, 9,...

Teresa Barnett and her staff of three at UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research have their work cut out for them: Document the history of Los Angeles and its environs. Since its founding in 1959, the center has amassed oral histories...

The experimental treatment may also decrease the need for liver or intestinal transplants and lower the risk mortality in young patients suffering intestinal failure, UCLA researchers say.

"These findings suggest that even men with prostate cancer can take control of their disease and moderate its aggressiveness through diet and lifestyle choices," said UCLA's Lenore Arab.

The positive effects of creating websites and blogging were particularly strong for women in active medical treatment, most of whom had metastatic disease, UCLA researchers said.

The research could help show that saliva can be used to detect life-threatening diseases, including diabetes and cancers of the pancreas, breasts, ovaries and stomach.