Nina Shapiro, a professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and director of pediatric otolaryngology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the author of "Take a Deep Breath: Clear the Air for the Health of Your...

Spend a day picking the brains of screenwriters and creative writers who now teach the art of writing. The UCLA Extension free-to-all Writers Faire will be held in the Young Hall courtyard at UCLA on August 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This festive day...

The grassy slopes of the Fowler’s UCLA Arts Council Amphitheater will be the place to be Sunday from 4-5 p.m. to see Noah and the MegaFauna, a nine-piece band that mixes indie folk with jazz and big band swing to create music...

Leaders of the Working Smarter initiative, which already has saved the University of California more than $289 million, took a big step forward recently when they and counterparts from California State University recently hosted a conference to...

Easily accessible through an online app, UCLA-developed research maps help neuroscientists quickly scan what is already known in their field and plan their next study.

The biennial survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the largest amd most comprehensive state health survey in the nation.

UCLA is tied for first with 21 other campuses as one of the most sustainable universities in the country, after receiving a perfect score in the 2014 edition of the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll. The list includes three other UCs.

With as many accolades and laurels that have been showered on legendary film producer-director Stanley Kramer during his lifetime, would one more tribute — this one to celebrate his 100th birthday posthumously — make much of a...

UCLA researchers have found that happiness derived from a purpose in life has a healthier genetic effect than pleasure-seeking.

For UC Merced sophomore Luis Fernando Gonzalez Haro, spending just two weeks at UCLA last month "opened up my world and what I can do and be."   Raised in the small town of Gustine in California’s Central Valley, where his family moved from...

From life’s beginning to its end, and at all points in between, there are opportunities for vexing ethical dilemmas to arise. And in this era of advanced technology, those opportunities are on the rise.

A recent study by Michael A. Stoll, professor and chair of public policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, looked at residential mobility in the U.S. over the last three decades, focusing particularly on the last decade.

Local elected officials recently joined professors from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and leaders of the Los Angeles Urban League and California Business Roundtable for a discussion about the unbalanced economic recovery being experienced by low-income communities throughout Los Angeles.

In conjunction with a Richard Artschwager retrospective at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 35 of the artist's blps have been placed in locations around Los Angeles.

Patricia Greenfield's analysis of some 1.5 million books published between 1800 and 2000 shows how human psychology has evolved in response to historical change.

You'll find one of Richard Artschwager's blps affixed to lifeguard headquarters on the beach in Santa Monica.   Now on view on buildings throughout Los Angeles: black lozenge-shaped marks.   In conjunction with the...

The five-year grant will support UCLA scientists' interdisciplinary efforts to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer.

In Memoriam: UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Charles Hopkins, the longest-serving employee at UCLA Film and Television Archive, died on July 27 at 69 from a number of health complications.

Patricia Turner is dean and vice provost for undergraduate education at UCLA. She teaches about African American culture and is the author of four books on the subject. This op-ed appeared Saturday, Aug. 03 in the Sacramento Bee.   Sunday is...

UCLA researchers have helped to uncover a biological link between schizophrenia and Fragile X syndrome, a disorder associated with intellectual impairment and autism.

An infant is born prematurely at 22 weeks, weighing only about one pound and with bleeding in the brain. He tentatively clings to life, but in light of the fact that there is minimal likelihood he will recover a level of functional mental...

David Shulman is a retired Wall Street executive who is now a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast. He is also affiliated with Baruch College. This op-ed appeared in US News and World Report on July 31, 2013.   After being...

UCLA researchers have found that a new treatment approach incorporating both cellular and gene therapies significantly reduced brain tumor size in a model system.

Beginning Saturday, Aug. 3, the northbound I-405 off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be closed until mid-December for construction of a longer and wider off-ramp.   The closure begins at 1 a.m. and will be in effect 24 hours a day. The new ramp...

It’s not what first lady Michele Obama had in mind with her Let’s Move! initiative, but that’s just what Americans did from 2008 to 2010 — at the height of what economists call the Great Recession.   A recent study by...