One of the nation’s most influential political scientists is breaking new ground in bringing academic insight into the American election as it’s happening.

Filmmaker, marketer and film distributor Ava DuVernay is the founder of entertainment marketing firm The DuVernay Agency and organizer of film company AFFRM.

It was only one sentence, but it changed everything in college sports.

UCLA researchers test blood and saliva samples, compare bite marks and use claw swabs and traces of fur to track the family tree and the animals’ behavior.

UCLA experts in diverse disciplines are exploring how vegetarianism can boost human health and alleviate a host of environmental challenges.

UCLA’s vaunted health-care system has established itself as a national leader in the integration of Eastern ideas and approaches into Western medicine.

Female teams have won 14 of UCLA’s last 18 NCAA titles. Four of their coaches discuss the pressures and rewards of what they do.

UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families continues its fascinating study of contemporary suburban America.

Emmy Award–winner Nancy Cartwright ’81 has lived a double life — hers, and the role that made the accomplished voice actress world-famous: Bart Simpson.

If the goal is to retain knowledge, research shows that commonly held beliefs about how to go about it are misguided. You need to relearn how to remember.

A Bruin who excelled on the battlefield, on the playing field and in the courtroom.

Jewitt was awarded the prizes, each worth $1 million, for his role in the 1993 discovery of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

At an early age, this Bruin determined to tell the stories of great African Americans who are mostly left out of history books.

No athletic program at UCLA has won more victories or titles in the past half-century than Al Scates’ Bruin men’s volleyball teams.

Marcus Garvey, the larger-than-life 20th-century African-American activist, left a large and sometimes swashbuckling legacy.

UCLA faculty and alumni experts examine their impact on the immigration issue with policy makers and the public alike.

Joshua Maverick Webster ’09, a past president of the Military Veterans Organization at UCLA, served four tours of duty in Afghanistan.

An on-site conference center moves inexorably toward reality. Deans, professors and friends of the university say it can’t happen soon enough.

UCLA is a coveted lifestyle brand across Europe and Asia.

Hundreds of people celebrated the life and legacy of Winston Doby, who spent 40-plus years in university service.

A Korean art exhibit initially sparked student Grecia Pinto’s interest in Korean studies. For law student Noelia Berardi, it was a keen interest in international relations. And so the two women from Latin America, who admit they knew very...

UCLA leads the way in exploring the boundaries of privacy in a digital world — and how policymakers should respond.

Why isn’t there more solar power in sun-drenched Los Angeles? The technology is there, but the will is not. But that’s changing fast.

From airplane patterns to Johnny Cash songs to crowdsourced digital sheep, techno-artist Aaron Koblin uses online data to explore new frontiers in digital arts.

Westwood has been a catalyst for Love since it first opened — a UCLA tradition of the finest kind. Here’s how the campus played matchmaker for a few couples.