Mike Stajura, a doctoral candidate at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, advises against the excessive use of the word "hero" when talking about him and other military veterans.

Alex Hall, a professor in UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Environment and Sustainability, appears in “Years of Living Dangerously,” airing June 2 on Showtime, and explains how climate change will impact our lives.

An estimated 20,000 attend a memorial service in the campus stadium, hear from UC President Janet Napolitano, students and the father of one Isla Vista rampage victim.

The public is invited to join world-renowned culinary visionaries at UCLA's popular "Scientific Bake-off," part of life scientist Amy Rowat's "Science and Food" course.

UCLA researchers have discovered that the parasite that causes trichomoniasis, a common sexual infection, may enhance prostate cells' progression from normal cells to tumor cells.

After the killings of six UC Santa Barbara students in Isla Vista, students at UCLA used social media to organize a Monday night memorial vigil outside Royce Hall.

UC President Janet Napolitano orders flags at all UC facilities to be lowered to half-staff to honor the memories of the victims of Friday's tragic events in Isla Vista.

Counseling and psychological services are available at all times to UCLA students, faculty and staff. This is a painful moment for the entire higher education community. Let’s look out for each other.

After more than two decades as the radio voice of UCLA football and basketball, Chris Roberts wants to step down while he's still on top.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Uber founder Travis Kalanick and online fashionista Natalie Massenet joined Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton and Pope Francis on the magazine’s 2014 list of 'The 100 most influential people in the world.'

UCLA archaeologist Giorgio Buccellati, who has been working on excavating an ancient city in Syria for almost two decades, is working remotely with a team of villagers in the region to protect the site from being destroyed in the ongoing civil war.

A new facility located near Pauley Pavilion would provide both the men's and women's basketball teams with practice gyms, lockers rooms and other amenities.

The funds will be used to build a garden pavilion that will house a welcome center and classroom. The construction is part of a series of renovations to increase the garden's visibility, upgrade its infrastructure and improve its accessibility.

Watch the 3-D light and sound show honoring UCLA's past and future and that wowed crowds who watched it projected onto Royce Hall.

UCLA and other institutions that serve more than 5 million Southland patients issued joint guidelines aimed at helping doctors and patients confront complex questions about dying with dignity.

UCLA-led research at four Los Angeles public schools found that many students didn't eat even a bite of the new, healthier items that were added to menus when LAUSD refreshed its lunch offerings in 2011.

Anne McKnight, a visiting assistant professor at UCLA, teaches a course on urban agriculture in Los Angeles that emphasizes that growing one’s own food is more important than ever.

Alex Wang and Benjamin van Rooj explore the consequences and goals of China's new environmental protection law in an op-ed in the New York Times.

The 25-member cast of the upcoming Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program production of "Guys and Dolls" has been rehearsing six times a week -- four hours at a stretch -- for opening night on Thursday.

The victory over North Carolina is the team's second NCAA championship and UCLA's record-extending 111th.

UCLA's Career Center, Graduate Division and collaborators campuswide have ramped up services to ready graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for successful, satisfying careers in and out of academia.

UCLA inventors recently presented their innovative research at UC’s annual Technology Commercialization Forum held recently in San Francisco.

Using an MRI-ultrasound fusion biopsy developed at UCLA, researchers found that nearly a third of men in their study had much more aggressive cancers than originally thought.

First-time violent juvenile offenders sentenced to probation camps are more than twice as likely to be involved in future criminal behavior than youths sentenced to in-home probation.

Nobel Prize recipient Randy Schekman, Jane Fonda and Herbie Hancock are among the prominent figures delivering remarks at UCLA's 2014 commencement ceremonies.