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Economic modernization has already created classes of people who are impatient with Putin's paternalistic regime, says UCLA professor of political science Daniel Treisman in an interview with Peggy McInerny, director of communications for the...

Russell Burgos, a lecturer in UCLA's International Institute, has a résumé that pretty much sums up the word eclectic. During his sophomore year at Loyola University Chicago, Burgos joined the Army. Three years later, he went back to college, and...

Retiree health is a benefit employers rarely offer, but UC has chosen to maintain it as part of its employment package. About half of current faculty and staff will be affected by new eligibility rules for retiree health benefits that go into effect...

  Need your football fix? Come to the annual UCLA Football Spring Showcase on Saturday, April 27, at 5 p.m. at the Rose Bowl. Tailgate on the grounds at 12 p.m. and enjoy a pregame fan zone with food, games and live music from 1-5 p.m....

There are no ifs, ands or butts about it: UCLA became a tobacco-free campus today. People passing through Bruin Plaza stopped to pick up information on how to quit at an event marking the launch of the new policy. For more information on...

Anne Coscarelli receives clinical care award Anne Coscarelli Anne Coscarelli, director of the Simms/Mann–UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology and member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded the 2013...

More than 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide have gone smoke or tobacco-free. Next week on April 22, UCLA joins the crowd. UCLA will be the first UC campus to act, and smokers and tobacco-users on campus are preparing.

If you had told Alex Galicia when he graduated from UCLA in 1992 with a B.A. in linguistics that he would end up running the small plumbing business that his family has owned for three generations, he would have said, “No way!” After...

"If you can play, you can play."   That’s the simple, but strong message behind a growing movement on campus that fosters respect, inclusion and equality in the sports and recreation community.   Cyd Zeigler moderates...

UCLA and seven other UCs made the cut in a 2013 guide to green colleges, released Tuesday by The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools.

The 1973 beginnings of UCLA’s Institute of Archaeology hardly signaled greatness. Its annual budget was a paltry $6,000. Founding director Giorgio Buccellati had a staff of one, a part-time assistant who worked a few hours a week. The institute...

UCLA becomes a tobacco-free campus on Monday, April 22, and will celebrate the Earth-Day launch of the tobacco-free policy in Bruin Plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.    Going tobacco-free is part of UCLA's Healthy Campus Initiative, and...

East L.A. (left) took on a different look when high school students in an urban planning workshop at UCLA mapped their neighborhood, showing their school, a nearby park, gang hangouts and a roaring freeway ramp....