UCLA is among the world’s great research enterprises, testing boundaries and producing new knowledge on a daily basis, and the departure of one lab will not diminish our impact.
A virtual court is in session every day on the most pressing and complex issues of human rights and international criminal law. And citizens from around the world have a front-row seat to watch some of the best legal minds make their strongest case...
Now available for iPad, 'Plan ABC' lists birth control methods in order of effectiveness and is designed to provide women with current, medically accurate information.
Not many people can say they cross a mountain range on their way to work — not on their own steam, anyway. But Annelie Rugg gets to campus from the West San Fernando Valley most days by bicycle.
Investigators botched their interviews of hundreds of children in the 1980s McMartin Preschool abuse case, critics charge.In 1983, a Manhattan Beach mother pressed police charges against McMartin Preschool teacher Ray Buckey, alleging he had...
On the faculty at UCLA since 1987, social welfare associate professor Alfreda Iglehart has circled the globe as a marathoner, completing runs in Beijing, Bangkok and Iceland. Rio de Janeiro is where she will be this year. She started...
Even while America experiences a recovery of sorts from the recent recessionary period, Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith, author of a new book, "Who Stole the American Dream?", says there is no cure in sight for the growing inequality...
Study is the first to identify bacteria's 'strategy' for forming the micro-colonies that become biofilms, which can cause seemingly routine bacterial infections to become lethal.
The UCLA Hammer Museum has been awarded $100,000 to set up a pop-up village of local artisanal shops and galleries in the struggling Westwood Village area.
The money for Arts ReStore LA: Westwood comes from the Goldhirsh Foundation, which, as...
A strike by AFSCME patient care and service workers could involve more than 4,000 UCLA Health System and medical school employees, most of whom take care of patients and their families.
"In the Shadow" was the Czech Republic’s 2012 entry into the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Film category. The noir thriller about corruption during the Communist regime of the 1950s will be shown on June 3 at the UCLA Film & Television...
The UCLA Anderson School of Management will bring together MBA students, alumni, faculty and regional entrepreneurs and investors to discuss the latest developments in entrepreneurship and emerging business trends.
Chancellor Gene Block and UCLA staff members gathered today for 10 minutes of exercise to honor Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and advocate for health equity and proponent of "Instant Recess."
Approximately 150 staff and faculty, including Chancellor Gene Block and his staff, took an Instant Recess break and exercised this afternoon (May 7) in the Center for Health Sciences plaza as a tribute to Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, a public...
UCLA scientists developed a way to program and control the shape of fluids flowing through pipes or conduits without the need to solve complex and time-consuming fluid-motion equations.
Carlos Alberto Torres is a critical social theorist and Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA. This op-ed appeared originally on May 4 in...
Bruins have an opportunity to be part of a nationwide tribute to Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, who died April 23 after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. More than 50 organizations across the country will participate at 1 p.m. Tuesday in...
Mick Jagger has been lamenting for 47 years that he "can't get no satisfaction." On a star-studded Friday night, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band got plenty from 19,000 rabid Rolling Stones fans on hand for the opening night of the Stones' "50 & Counting" tour at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles.
UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson's disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies.
With a simple push of an iPad button, UCLA physicians can send the robot gliding down the hall to a patient's room to perform an examination in real time.
The university is expected to confer an estimated 10,000 bachelor's, master's, doctoral and professional degrees during the ceremonies, which run from May 17 to June 15.