Units across campus will be closed or have limited hours from Wednesday, Dec. 24, through Sunday, Jan. 4, as part of an annual winter closure to save energy and money.
Casey Abrams is only 11 years old, but he managed to deliver approximately 1,000 toys to the Chase Child Life program at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA Monday.
New UCLA study showing almost half of the 6.9 million Californians who lacked insurance in 2012 were in a family with a full-time worker will serve as a baseline to gauge effects of Obamacare.
White House immigration staff members attended a briefing Friday by UCLA students on the economic impact of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Obama enacted by executive order in 2012 and expanded this year.
New UCLA brain research offers hope that lost memories can be restored. The study provides evidence that long-term memory is not stored at synapses, as previously thought.
The Hammer will debut its first offsite exhibition, “Charles Gaines: Librettos: Manuel de Falla/Stokely Carmichael,” Feb. 28 on a new art and social service campus in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park.
Eddie Murphy, director of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center, is retiring on Dec. 31, 2014 to finish renovating a historic home she purchased in her hometown of Wellsville, Ohio.
UCLA study shows that combining palbociclib with letrozole effectively doubled the length of time women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer were on treatment without their cancer worsening.
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that the 2015 Maximum Annual Contribution limit for retirement plans is increasing. The MAC limit for the UC Retirement Savings Program's 403(b) Plan and 457(b) Plan will increase to $18,000.
UCLA researchers led by Aydogan Ozcan have developed a lens-free microscope that can be used to detect cancer with the same accuracy as larger and more expensive optical microscopes.
UCLA’s Children's Pain and Comfort Care team at Mattel Children's Hospital works to succor pediatric, adolescent and young-adult patients in their days of need and to help their families grapple with the unfathomable: the death of that young patient.
Eric Avila says it’s fitting that recent protests against police killing unarmed African American men disrupted traffic on freeways, which have a legacy of devastation to urban African American communities.
Young patients at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA went "shopping" Monday for gifts for their parents or guardians without leaving the hospital, thanks to head football coach Jim Mora and his wife, Shannon.
A new research institute at UCLA may eventually provide doctors with tools to more accurately tailor therapies to patients, which would improve care and minimize side effects.
Researchers from UCLA have developed the first lightweight, compact device that converts an ordinary smartphone into an advanced fluorescence microscope.
New UCLA research indicates that use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter along with behavioral psychology can boost HIV testing rates, suggesting a valuable tool in the fight against the virus that causes AIDS.
UCLA’s Bill Parent, director of the Center for Civil Society at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, writes that L.A.-area residents’ stinginess jeopardizes society’s safety net, which depends significantly on private donations.