After years of working as a newspaper reporter, ​​​​​​​X-Files executive producer Frank Spotnitz found his true calling in television.

A UCLA neurologist offers 7 tips for those of us who spend too much time awake.

All across our campus, researchers are working toward helping Los Angeles County transition to complete use of renewable energy and local water by 2050.

Hussein El Kerdi looked like a healthy baby boy, but his immune cells lacked an important enzyme. His family traveled from Lebanon to UCLA seeking a cure.

Veteran reporters came to UCLA to discuss demographic and political trends that will determine who controls Congress.

The winners of the 2018 Gerald Loeb Awards were announced June 25 at a ceremony and banquet in New York.

Two discoveries — one in the brains of people with heroin addiction and the other in the brains of sleepy mice — shed light on chemical messengers that regulate sleep and addiction, UCLA researchers say.

The device, designed by UCLA Engineering researchers, operates across a broad range of light, processes images more quickly and is more sensitive to low levels of light than current models.

Rachelle Crosbie-Watson is researching new drugs that one day may halt the progression of the deadly childhood muscle-wasting disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The availability of such cells — with properties similar to those from humans and other animals — should help scientists accelerate research on therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Eight specialties placed in the top 50 nationally: nephrology, orthopaedics, neurology/neurosurgery, gastroenterology, cancer, urology, cardiology and neonatology.

Through a partnership, South African doctors shadow UCLA physicians in Los Angeles and then return to their home country to put into practice what they’ve learned.

Blizzard Entertainment executive and UCLA alumnus Frank Pearce was the keynote speaker for the nearly 2,000 students receiving certificates.

She coordinated the Fulbright Scholars Enrichment Program at UCLA from 1962 to 1991.

The new work will continue a study that began in 2013 with a $7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The funds will support pediatrics faculty who are focused on enhancing quality of life for people with cerebral palsy, autism, and other developmental and behavioral challenges.

The 2018 Scholarship and Awards Recognition Ceremony recognized those who support the UCLA mission through their work.

Donald Shoup: If New York City charged $5.50 a day in just half its available spaces, the total revenue would amount to $3 billion a year available for services.

UCLA Magazine: “I didn’t know it at the time, but... our chance of winning was less than 3 percent,” Head Coach Valorie Kondos Field said.

UCLA Blueprint: Professor Mark A. Peterson considers the Affordable Care Act the most important advance in health protection since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.

Research by Joanna Schwartz played a key role in a decision rejecting the use of qualified immunity to defend police officers from a lawsuit that arose out of their official conduct.

Ursula Heise writes about the benefit of Los Angeles becoming a habitat for the endangered, though non-native, green-cheeked Amazon parrot.

At two UCLA College commencements in Pauley Pavilion, almost 20,000 guests cheered 5,800 students celebrating their graduation.

The honoree, Dr. David Sabatini, an MIT biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, will give a lecture at UCLA on December 13.

Hosea Nelson and Jose Rodriguez have been selected among 22 early career researchers for the awards which provides funding for work advancing human health.