To UCLA visual artist Casey Reas, writing computer code and programming are not so much technical skills as “thinking” skills that he has managed to apply to artistic expression to great effect.

If you’ve ever contemplated becoming a vegetarian, check out how eating a plant-based diet isn’t just good for your health. It happens to also be good for the Earth’s health.

Architecture and urban design lecturer Jimenez Lai’s “The Tower of Twelve Stories” is the biggest art installation ever at the annual music and arts festival.

An earlier study had suggested that a class of drugs called anthracyclines might increase the risk for neuropsychological issues and cognitive difficulties.

UCLA biologists write that the findings should help guide how endangered species are treated.

The researchers discovered good news as well: An omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid seems to reverse the harmful changes.

Members of the academy include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers and artists.

The campus community gathered Wednesday for an evening devoted primarily to sleep and heard sound advice about how to wake up refreshed and rejuvenated from a panel of experts.

Students are taught about extinction in classrooms, but it’s their direct experience with nature that is rapidly disappearing, warns Peter Kareiva, director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Los Angeles music attorney Dina LaPolt represents recording artists, songwriters, producers, musicians, authors and writers, and teaches a UCLA Extension class, “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Music Business.”

About 25 undergraduates and graduate students had an unprecedented opportunity to meet with United States National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

With Blue Shield of California’s rate guarantees expiring, UC has selected Anthem to replace Blue Shield as the claims administrator and network provider for four UC health care plans.

Prescribing antibiotics to patients who don’t need them can create problems so how do we get doctors to change their behaviors? Start by remembering that doctors are human, so not always perfectly rational.

L.A.’s only species of newt is showing signs of severe distress, troubling researchers and raising questions about the impacts of the drought and climate change.

Alison Wu, a graduate student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was last seen by her roommate April 10.

Professor Emeritus Dean Stoddard Worth died after a long illness on Feb. 29 at the age of 88 in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He retired from UCLA in 1994 after 37 years as a professor of Slavic languages.

Whether she’s studying Wall Street or Equatorial Guinea, Hannah Appel uses the lens of anthropology to understand how people create and make sense of their economic lives.

The findings also suggest that regardless of a person’s level of fat mass, a higher level of muscle mass helps reduce the risk of death.

    For more than 40 years, issues surrounding genetically modified organisms—GMOs—have been full of controversy, curiosity and confusion. On Tuesday, April 19, four experts will debate the environmental, social and health impacts of GMO foods.

More than 15,700 prospective students and their families sampled faculty lectures, toured residence halls and asked questions about life at UCLA.

A study by UCLA researchers demonstrates other benefits, too, among states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

With support from the UC Global Food Initiative, Savannah Gardner and Tyler Watson are leading efforts to bring fresh produce and healthy eating to cash-strapped Bruins.

High winds gusting at 45 and 50 miles per hour toppled a pine tree at UCLA sometime during the night and snapped a eucalyptus branch in Royce Quad.

A new study traces how a largely unfamiliar pathogen led to a global epidemic that has linked the virus to fetal brain-development disorders and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Fink, who received both a bachelor’s degree and M.B.A. from UCLA, is regarded as one of the most influential individuals in business and finance.