UCLA students who have been taking classes in American Sign Language have created videos of themselves signing information on the Holocaust to give deaf visitors to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance a richer experience as they tour the exhibits.

A working group that includes UCLA's Susan D. Cochran says the removal of these disorders from the organization's classification system will make getting health care easier for gay individuals.

UCLA architecture and urban design students helped create a fully functional microhouse built using 3-D printing technology.

UCLA linguist Pamela Munro started a Facebook page to revive and promote the Tongva language, once spoken by Southern California's Gabrielino-Tongva Indians. Through social media, their descendants are now learning words, phrases and songs in Tongva.

Michael Intriligator, a professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA who played an influential role in the establishment of the School of Public Affairs, died on June 23 after a three-year battle with melanoma. 

The Hammer's biennial showcase of emerging Los Angeles artists has forced the museum to temporarily shelve its collection of European masters for the first time ever.

Among the group's other recommendations: household water meters that measure indoor and outdoor water use separately, and stronger incentives for drought-resistant landscaping.

Economists Lee Ohanian of UCLA and Nobel laureate Edward Prescott of Arizona State University maintain that an important factor contributing to declining productivity growth is the large decline in the creation of new businesses.

Brian Taylor, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies as well as a professor of urban planning, talks about getting stuck in traffic and the day he received three parking tickets in Zocalo's green room.

The Fowler is home to more than 20,000 textiles that trace the history of cloth over two millennia and across five continents.

Stan Paul, undergraduate advisor for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has commuted by vanpool from Riverside County since 2001. He takes photos along the way.

Jack Rothman of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs writes that 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act black families currently own just one-tenth the assets of their white counterparts.

The findings open the door to future research on how to control the regeneration of heart tissue in order to repair damage caused by disease or heart attack.

The UCLA Burkle Global Impact Initiative assisted in recruiting a diverse roster of film and music stars to appear in a new video for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In an event co-sponsored by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. and others disagree on Mayor Garcetti’s first year in office.

UCLA researchers found that when compared with children born to white American mothers, children of foreign-born women who are black, Central or South American, Filipino and Vietnamese had a higher risk of autism.

The new prize, established by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner, recognizes scholars who have made major advances in the field of math.

The agreement between Patrick Harran and the Los Angeles County DA will result in a dismissal of all charges in connection with a campus lab accident that took the life of a staff research associate.

Adam Winkler says Justice Kennedy's swing vote status on gun control may be why the Court was reluctant to hear Second Amendment cases.

Furnish the Homeless, an organization founded by three UCLA students in 2012, takes unwanted furniture and appliances from students and others living near campus and delivers them to those living in transitional housing.

Three UCLA geriatrics and gerontology faculty members are among those at the forefront of the effort to change the way medicine is delivered to an aging population.

With online feedback, surgeons improved their technique, had shorter completion times and earned better scores technical efficiency, accuracy and economy of motion.

UCLA's national parking expert, Donald Shoup, says that when a city temporarily suspends parking meters it often backfires for the businesses it was meant to help.

Findings from the three-year study could eventually lead to new personalized treatments for lung cancer, which is responsible for an estimated 29 percent of U.S. cancer deaths.

A UCLA institute that's searching for the best cost-effective health care practices and programs in L.A. County showcased the latest innovations in use by a dozen agencies and hospitals.