UCLA’s Edward Garon, the study’s principal investigator, says the drug offers new hope for people with lung cancer who often have few treatment options.

Biologists with the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science recently went on a rescue mission to save endangered turtles that have become dehydrated, emaciated and stressed-out by the extended drought.

Unlike current surgical methods, the technique is minimally invasive with few side effects and does not require chemotherapy or radiation.

Logan Nobriga, a 10-year-old-boy who is battling cancer, was honored at a Bruins’ basketball game as the first “Kid Captain” selected by Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the UCLA Men’s Basketball team.

In results characterized as “very surprising,” UCLA researchers found for the first time that higher-earning clinicians make more money by ordering more procedures and services per patient rather than by seeing more patients, which may not be in patients’ best interest.

Study finds that putting opponents of gay marriage in contact with people who can explain the issue’s personal importance can have dramatic results.

Climate model simulations of the 21st century show little change in total precipitation, but more rain instead of snow, posing flooding risk and shortening chance to capture water.

Terrence Roberts, who earned an M.A. degree from UCLA and served as assistant dean of the then-School of Social Welfare, returned to campus to talk about his historic role in integrating a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas and the current protests over the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police.

A new report evaluating research-based programs designed to enhance the mental health and resilience of military families, has found that they help veterans and their families cope with the effects of wartime service.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired objects that represent the work of world-renowned painter and muralist Judith Baca, a professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

A series of information-packed newsletters published by students working for UCLA's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has eased the arduous search for research funding for faculty.

A team of researchers led by UCLA professor Sean Young is among the first of five recipients of a new University of California research grant intended to spur discoveries with direct societal impacts.

Synthetic turf will save water and energy in the midst of California’s historic drought, and decrease the costs and downtime from maintenance

The report foresees the U.S. economy likely growing at a 3 percent pace during the next two years, as lower oil prices and higher wages bolster consumer spending and the unemployment rate falls.

A UCLA environmental law clinic coaches students to become legal advisers and official delegates to the annual United Nations climate conference

The new music building on campus is alive with the sounds of students learning, practicing, studying and socializing. UCLA video.

UCLA’s Hitoshi Abe is among those whose work is featured in an exhibit detailing nontraditional ways architects have helped rebuild the coast of Eastern Japan following the devastating tsunami of 2011.

John Goodlad, former dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education from 1967 to 1983, died in Seattle on Nov. 29 at age 94. He was the author of a seminal book on the largest study of U.S. schools ever conducted at the time.

A 28-foot-long elevator from an Airbus A330 was donated to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. The part, which is used for flight control on the aircraft’s tail, is valued at $750,000.

History professor James Gelvin writes that the chances for negotiating a settlement in Syria might increase if the different players stopped examining the conflict in isolation.

Study reveals that stem cells lacking the protein have an increased ability to replicate in the natural environment and following transplantation.

Lokubanda Tillakaratne has spent more than three decades helping his former village in many different ways. Now he's published a book of facts, figures, interviews and personal recollections of life there.

National guidelines recommend that men in these cases should not be treated with radiation or surgery, since they are unlikely to live long enough to benefit from treatment.

Alan Rubin, the associate curator of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery and unofficial “cosmic killjoy,” regularly has to tell people the answer is no. But he'll also tell you where meteorites actually come from.

Scientists from UCLA, Harvard, Mass General and Stanford present strong evidence that a chemical modification on RNA plays a key role in determining embryonic stem cells’ ability to adopt different cellular identities.