The development could help women and their physicians better prepare for the onset of bone loss and increased cardiovascular risk factors.

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. Starting last Friday, March 22, at 5 p.m., they got the news by...

Docents recently led a group of UCLA Staff Assembly members on a tour of the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. For the first time in several years, the garden is seeking volunteer docents. No background in botany is required. Training consists of...

Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero informed Howland of the decision on Sunday afternoon. A national search for a successor has begun. Click for full UCLA statement.

Researchers found that youth with Type 1 diabetes who had moved from pediatric to adult care were more than twice as likely to have chronically high blood glucose levels.

Construction beginning Saturday, March 23, will cause serious traffic woes on Coldwater Canyon, and though UCLA commuters most likely already use roads farther west, displaced Coldwater drivers could increase traffic on favored Bruin routes.

For UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two decades of visionary research burst into the headlines last month when the FDA approved what it called “the first bionic eye for the blind.”

SACRAMENTO — A spirited contingent of 40 volunteer faculty, staff, students and friends descended on the State Capitol Tuesday, UC Day, to tell 33 Los Angeles area state legislators and their representatives how UCLA has...

Daniel Blumstein is a professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and co-author of "The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It)." His op-ed...

When spring break begins this weekend, some UCLA students are packing bathing suits and heading to the beach, but other Bruins are packing grubby work clothes to restore the bayou in New Orleans or headed for research in the mountains.

Bioengineering professor Wentai Liu uses a toy eyeball to illustrate the electronic retinal implant that helps restore eyesight to the blind. Photos and video by Sebastian Hernandez.For UCLA bioengineering professor Wentai Liu, more than two...

Mack, a longtime civil rights leader and vice president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, will speak April 4 at the annual UCLA Bunche Center-sponored event.

"ARCHIZINES" will be on display at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's Perloff Gallery from April 12 through May 31.

Even after genetically modified T cells stop fighting cancer, they seem to give rise to a new batch of tumor-killing T cells.

Members of the UCLA women’s basketball team erupted in cheers after learning they had earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They will face No. 14 Stetson on Saturday, March 23, in first-round action in the Oklahoma City Region. This...

    If you want to see a dancer take her art form to a higher plane, look up. Way way up.   Amelia Rudolph, a choreographer and performer, took a gravity-defying stroll down the eight-story-high Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center...

Closure-device therapy may be a useful strategy for younger patients with a history of strokes potentially caused by a hole in the wall of the heart.

"We can improve care while reducing costs by making sure that everything we do is centered on what the patient wants," says UCLA's Dr. Jonathan Bergman.

Pulmonary fibrosis was slowly destroying Fernando Padilla's lungs. But an experimental transplant technology at UCLA left the 57-year-old grandpa breathing a whole lot easier.

Located in Malibu, 26 miles from campus, the seldom used 2,000-square-foot home has led to financial losses for the university in recent years.

Courtney Lyder (photo by Joe Toreno) So you call yourself a foodie? Come talk to us when you’ve got menu items named after you at several different restaurants.   That’s the case with Courtney Lyder, the charismatic dean of...

Jonathan Fielding is a man with many hats. Not only is he the founding director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, but he's also a faculty member in the Fielding School of Public Health and a philanthropist....

You can run off to join the circus. Or you can use the circus to train for a career in performing arts. That's the inventive approach of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, which has a unique partnership with Cirque du Soleil.

You can run off to join the circus. Or you can use the circus to train for a career in performing arts. The former is an All-American childhood dream. The latter is the latest inventive approach to entertainment education from the UCLA School of...

Nurses and midwives can play a critical role in lessening people's risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, according to a groundbreaking new report issued by the World Health Organization and co-authored...