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Craig Merlic, an associate professor of chemistry at UCLA, has been committed to laboratory safety for three decades. He serves as the executive director of the UC Center for Laboratory Safety.

The acclaimed scholar of immigrant and low-wage workforce issues says he looks forward to studying the gig economy, young workers and immigrant workers.

Reconnaissance group leaves Saturday to investigate geotechnical and geological aspects of the destructive quake sequence in August.

A close call with death in 1986 led Morocco to a new career saving lives.

Kelley, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, does a candid interview in the Zocalo Public Square green room.

A new book co-edited by UCLA Luskin professor Laura Abrams gives a voice to volunteers, including prisoners, who donate their time to improving lives.

A study by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute of the rapid formation of startups at UC campuses found that universitywide research has led to hundreds of new companies, supporting 146,000 jobs.

UCLA psychiatrist Kenneth Wells answers random questions for Zócalo Public Square.

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television professor Myung Hee Cho helped create a new musical show for Shanghai Disney's fairytale castle.

If you spend hours commuting to work and sitting at your desk all day, recent studies about the health hazards of too much sitting probably have hit home.   

A UCLA political scientist and an American University political historian talked about the key factors in the presidential election Tuesday night before a packed crowd at the Hammer Museum.

More than 300 technology leaders, innovators, policymakers, journalists and academics will gather Friday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Club to share their ideas on closing the gender and diversity gap in the technology sector.

Coates is the founding director for the UCLA Center for World Health, has been named the new director of the University of California Global Health Institute.

The UCLA Anderson School of Management professor knows he won't be elected but hopes to wake Americans up to key economic issues.

Professor Greenfield, director of the Children’s Digital Media Center @ Los Angeles, in a candid conversation at Zócalo Public Square.

Mellinkoff, who transformed the fledgling UCLA School of Medicine into a nationally recognized academic institution, died on July 17 at age 96.

Author, critic and UCLA emerita English professor Carolyn See, 82, died July 13 in Santa Monica as a result of congestive heart failure.

Patricia Turner, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, has been appointed senior dean of the UCLA College. She began serving a two-year term on July 1.

This professor of art history and Chicana/o studies received the 2016 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, given by the Gold Shield Alumnae of UCLA to a mid-career faculty member with outstanding accomplishments.

"The Center Cannot Hold" tells the life story of Elyn Saks, professor of psychiatry and law, whose schizophrenic episodes began when she was in high school and worsened when she was a student at Yale Law School.

Burton is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,.

The League of American Bicyclists ranks UCLA as a Silver Bicycle-Friendly University. A holder of that distinction since 2011, UCLA is one of just 10 schools to move up in standing over the last year.

Lynn’s firm is among 12 of the best contemporary architecture and design teams chosen from across the country to take on the challenge.

A world-class scientist and educator, Kruglyak is a professor of human genetics and biological chemistry.

Because of the pioneering work of Dr. Donald Kohn, a researcher with UCLA's Broad Stem Cell Research Center, the potential to bring stem cell therapies to patients is now a reality.