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At UCLA, the proportion of female faculty in these fields has grown dramatically since the 1980s, but there is still room for improvement.

Video: UCLA's professor of near eastern languages and cultures walks and talks about archaeology, ancient Egypt and more.

Nancy Wayne and the UC Center for Laboratory Safety were honored by the Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association.

The University of California today announced new systemwide procedures for responding to alleged sexual misconduct by faculty and staff that provide greater transparency, consistency and timeliness in investigating and adjudicating such cases.

The victory in Matal v. Tam marks the second win of the term for the clinic headed by professor Stuart Banner.

Two priorities for the fiscal year 2017 competition were north campus-led research projects and projects involving big data and related tools and capabilities.

The gift, from Michael Jung, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and his wife, Alice, establishes an endowed chair in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery.

A briefing was held by UCLA Government and Community Relations because of increased interest shown by the campus community in responding to the proposed budget by the Trump administration.

UCLA School of Law is launching new initiatives to promote cutting-edge research in food law and animal law and to build bridges between the two fields.

Daniel Blumstein, a professor in the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the recipient of the 2017 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, presented annually by Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA.

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is launching today the Bill Klug Memorial Scholarship Fund to support undergraduate students in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

Delegates from China’s Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing visited the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health on Tuesday, May 30, to sign an official memorandum of understanding with the school.

Lynn Vavreck is a professor of political science at UCLA and co-author of “The Gamble,” about the 2012 presidential campaign. She is a regular contributor to the Upshot blog on The New York Times website.

Share was once a media insider, a freelance photojournalist who covered such issues as poverty and social activism.

Haroon Azar, a 2008 graduate of the UCLA School of Law, will lead the program as director and a senior fellow at the Burkle Center.

Math often gets a bad rap as an uncreative left brain-oriented activity, but Andrea Bertozzi recalls that, as a child, she was fascinated by math's creative potential.

In this Q&A about her new book, UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández highlights how decades of discriminatory policies gave rise to this dubious distinction.

Q&A with UCLA professor Sarah Roberts, who has pioneered the study of the toll screening objectionable online content takes on the people who have to do it.

Most recently, he served as assistant director for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences, where he led a division with an annual budget of approximately $1.3 billion in support of core research.

The academy's members have included Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Orville Wright and Alexander Graham Bell.

Dr. Kelsey Martin, who recently was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, is the first woman dean of UCLA’s medical school, and she is among only a handful of women leading a medical school in the United States.

UCLA faculty members Judith Carney and Stephanie Jamison will be inducted in an October ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jocelyn Samuels, who advanced LGBT and civil rights in the Obama administration, will lead UCLA School of Law’s LGBT research and policy center.

On May 4, the campus community and public can celebrate the impact of this initiative at the #DreamRevolution event at Sunset Recreation Center.

May cover story notes that Terence Tao is “widely considered one of the greatest minds currently working in mathematics.”