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."They ate together. They cried together. They said how sad it was to lose the dead boy…And they reached...

Neurologists add benomyl to a growing list of chemicals tied to the disease and propose a wholly new target for future Parkinson's therapies.

With nearly 23 million people across the African continent living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts across the globe are working feverishly to stem the epidemic. Among them is UCLA’s Pamina M. Gorbach, a behavioral epidemiologist whose...

The endowment comes from the estate of late UC regent Frank Clark and his wife, Dorothy, benefactors who helped create leading-edge UCLA urology centers.

UCLA took the No. 6 spot among the nation's 100 best-value colleges in Kiplinger's annual survey, which looks at academic quality, cost and financial aid.

Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA and author of "The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism." Her op-ed appeared originally today in the Los Angeles Times.   On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate...

Zombies, even more than handsome vampires, are ubiquitous in today’s pop culture, from hit TV shows to video games. But did you that the zombi actually comes to us from the Vodou culture of Haiti? Join the Fowler Museum at...

Douglas Kellner is the George F. Kneller Professor of the Philosophy of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. This op-ed was originally posted Dec. 20 in the Huffington Post.   Will the brutal...

Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is a former adviser on Education, Peace, and Justice to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and is co-author of Cultures...

Bruins Women's Gymnastics vaults into its new season this Sunday, Jan. 6, against Southern Utah in the annual John Wooden Challenge at the new Pauley Pavilion. The six-time NCAA champions and returning 2012 Pac-12 champs are...

UCLA crime prevention officer Erik Rakowski and his colleagues with the 40-member Police Officers Association (POA) decided this year to forego door prizes for their annual holiday party as "something we didn't really need," he...

Pauley Pavilion reopened this fall after a 33-month, $136-million makeover with a jam-packed week of celebration for the entire Bruin family.

As Los Angeles looks to gain recognition as “Silicon Beach,” UCLA faculty and students are playing major roles in the transformation.

UCLA is home to approximately 50 club sports, ranging from the more traditional to the quirky to the downright crazy.

Policies that promote urban health is possible, say the experts whose job it is to ponder futures in public-health policy and practices in the City of Angels.

There is much in traditional societies that those of us in advanced cultures can adopt to live better as nations and individuals, says Jared Diamond.

A growing body of evidence links the ability to be resilient in the face of life’s stresses with success and happiness.

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, David and Goliath, explores the art and science of underdogs.

UCLA and the American president go way back in all sorts of ways. Think you know about UCLA presidential history? Here’s your chance to prove it.

Faculty in the economics and mathematics departments at UCLA celebrated Monday the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics to their longtime colleague, Lloyd Shapley.

Lloyd S. Shapley, a professor emeritus of economics and mathematics at UCLA, has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He shares the award with Harvard University economist Alvin E. Roth.

A look at how the October 31 holiday evolved from a colorful but relatively minor-league American celebration to an iconic autumnal festival.

UCLA’s most venerated venue is back in action after a two-and-a-half year, $130-million-plus renovation.

UCLA scientists and engineers are in the vanguard of the study of how to build “thinking” machines and their present and possible future impact on human society.

The groundbreaking fund that arose out of last year’s Lincy Foundation gift to UCLA will help organizations and people bring their ideas to life.