Many dance schools teach technique. At UCLA, something more ambitious swirls through the classrooms: a conviction that art really can change the world.

Is technology good for our brains, or is it bad? Does it improve thinking, or imperil it? The debate rages, digitally or otherwise. The experts see it both ways.

Members of the UCLA family have left their mark on the contemporary metropolis that is the city of Los Angeles.

More and more, a visit to the doctor means a meeting with a nurse practitioner. These hybrid health-care providers are becoming increasingly common and critical.

UCLA Associate Professor of Electrical and Bioengineering Aydogan Ozcan is one of the world’s “Brilliant 10” scientists, as proclaimed by Popular Science magazine.

University of California Regent Edward A. Dickson decided upon Westwood for the new home of the Southern Branch of the University of California.

Actors, athletes, scientists and other groundbreakers are among the alumni and faculty featured in the second phase of UCLA's national ad campaign.

The realization that caring for indigenous people requires more than medical knowledge and skills has brought a physician, anthropologists and others from across UCLA to learn from each other.

The Department of Ethnomusicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music offers a series of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the spring, including performances and academic lectures.

 UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.   “Much more work must be done on the television diversity front before the corps of writers...

The new map lets residents find how much energy the average customer in their neighborhood uses, see how that use relates to income level and track energy use over time.

Researchers say that medications recommended by national guidelines are not only effective in saving patients' lives but may also provide savings to the health care system.

UCLA men’s volleyball coach to lead U.S. Men's National Team. Staffer collaborates on documentary about 2011 Japanese disasters.

Although tax season doesn’t usually summon warm feelings for most of us, this year it might help to know that some students at UCLA use tax season to do some good in the world.UCLA is home to one of the most prestigious chapters of the the...

Courtney Lyder, the charismatic dean of UCLA’s School of Nursing, has become a regular at Westwood eateries — so much so that several of them have named cocktails or dishes after him.

The daylong event will explore the shifting paradigm of storytelling, emerging technologies and the blurring boundaries between entertainment and politics.

A new method for super-cooling molecules could be a key step in the development of quantum computing.

UCLA plastic and reconstructive surgeon Reza Jarrahy realized that he was missing something when his young Guatemalan patient developed a mysterious infection after undergoing surgery. That puzzled the surgeon, who travels Guatemala twice a year to...

The UCLA findings are particularly important in park-starved California, where only one out of every four adolescents lives near a park or open space.

The list, compiled every two years, identifies the best trained, most experienced and most skilled specialists, regardless of where they practice.

CRESST is being tapped by a federally funded consortium developng new educational assessments for students in nearly half the states in the U.S., including California.

"Man in Korean Costume," about 1617, Peter Paul Rubens. The J. Paul Getty Museum A new exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum, "Looking East: Ruben’s Encounter with Asia," is built around a drawing of a man in Asian dress created by Peter Paul...

Faculty from UCLA’s African Studies Center will be focusing their attention for the next two-and-a-half years on improving the bleak future for girls growing up in Rwanda by building a partnership with a key teacher-training institute in...

Twitter has been a flurry of ecstatic tweets as high school seniors across the nation learn if they've been admitted to UCLA’s fall 2013 freshman class.

The abnormal growth appears to be associated with an increased risk of neuroendocrine tumors, say researchers from UCLA and the University of Florida.