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The report by UCLA and USC researchers informs an amicus brief supporting President Obama’s executive order shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Despite progress, dirty air and water are just the beginning of the region's environmental troubles. The findings, which are believed to be the most comprehensive environmental report card for any region in the nation, show the county needs tutoring to bring up its grades.

UCLA researchers looked at 22 indicators to determine grades in six main categories — water, air, ecosystem health, waste, environmental quality of life, and energy and greenhouse gases.

Wealthier women living in communities with larger income gaps are most likely to get a test that can help determine the best way to treat early-stage breast cancer.

The research is another step toward the early diagnosis of CTE, a degenerative brain condition that affects athletes in contact sports who are exposed to repetitive brain injuries.

New research might explain why people with HIV develop age-related illnesses about 14 years before their peers who do not have the virus.

Kathleen Salvaty, an experienced litigator and civil rights advocate, has been hired as UCLA’s Title IX officer.

UCLA researchers showed that shock treatment changes certain areas of the brain that play a role in how people feel, learn and respond to environmental factors.

One of the new meteorites, found in Namibia and weighing in at 811 pounds, is now the largest meteorite in Los Angeles.

The endowed chair commemorates Luskin’s longstanding relationship with his friend and attorney, Robert Henigson.

New compact, reliable energy storage devices outperform batteries by holding larger amounts of energy, recharging more quickly and lasting for longer recharge cycles.

Kang spoke with UCLA Newsroom’s Eric Greene about his background and his goals for the new position.

Jerry Kang, a faculty member since 1995, has drawn praise from fellow professors for his commitment to fairness and his leadership skills.

The moon does not influence the timing of human births or hospital admissions, a new UCLA study finds, confirming what scientists have known for decades.

Of 85 UCLA undergraduate students, only one correctly recalled the Apple logo when asked to draw it on a blank sheet of paper. Fewer than half correctly identified the logo when shown several options.

“Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram” and “The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989” both open April 19.

Faculty across campus will vote on a proposal that would require all undergraduate students in the UCLA College to complete a course focused on diversity.

Up to 57 percent of immigrants in California who are eligible under the executive actions are low-income and lack private health insurance, according to a study by UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers.

The study provides the most detailed information to date about the timing of the immune system’s recovery in school-age children with HIV.

The finding marks the final step in an international consortium’s successful effort to develop a unified and reliable approach to assessing signs of Alzheimer’s-related neurodegeneration through structural imaging tests.

The information collected from this statistically representative sample of transgender-identified individuals led by researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law could be used to help craft better public policy.

New treatment platform may solve some of the problems of treating pancreas cancer with chemotherapy.

The award will support the Teaching Schools Initiative, which has been based at the UCLA Community School and will be expanding to other sites.

Several new studies, one co-authored by a UCLA professor, show that transcription is in fact the most influential step in determining protein abundance.

UCLA Arts’ spring calendar of more than 150 public events offers the public the chance to experience a wide diversity of creative programming.