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UCLA improved its standing in the 2016–2017 rankings placing No. 14 worldwide and No. 10 in the United States.

The discovery by UCLA researchers may help scientists develop effective therapies to prevent or reverse this common and often fatal disease.

Board chair Shirley Wang will announce the UCLA Chancellor’s Centennial Scholars Match, which aims to add $150 million to endowed undergraduate scholarship support.

UCLA’s eighth annual Volunteer Day gives new students their first taste of Bruin life and provides service and support at 50 locations throughout L.A. County.

UCLA Volunteer Day will send thousands of new Bruins joined by employees and alumni to 50 sites across Los Angeles to work on projects at schools, parks, senior centers, and veterans’ sites.

Segura, who is a professor of political science at Stanford and a leading scholar in the politics of America’s growing Latino minority, will succeed Lois Takahashi.

The team, led by a UCLA researcher, used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to gather data on Comet 332P as it broke apart 67 million miles from Earth.

UCLA-led researchers recommend development of new medications and new guidelines for treatment with different types and combinations of antibiotics.

The laboratory-grown tissue can be used to study diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which has traditionally been difficult to study using conventional methods.

A UCLA study shows that warming forces have caused millennia of dryness in California’s prehistory, and greenhouses gases could do the same.

A fluid that behaves similarly to water in our day-to-day lives becomes as heavy as honey when trapped in a nanocage.

Though the test reduces the number of women undergoing radiation, researchers say doctors and policy makers should further discuss the value of using Oncotype DX DCIS.

This year’s True Bruin Welcome, which runs Sept. 15 to 29, features dozens of events, including festivals, concerts, film screenings, networking events and tours.

UCLA is No. 2 among America’s national public universities and No. 24 overall in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” rankings.

A 1964 interview with Martin Luther King Jr. is one of many historical moments from KTLA-TV in a new online portal created by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

A new toolkit created by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation is designed to help communities navigate paths to improving the areas immediately around the river.

The least developed human embryonic stem cells, or “naïve” pluripotent stem cells, consume more sugar than “primed” pluripotent stem cells, which are embryonic stem cells from later in development, researchers have discovered.

The findings could provide scientists with a better understanding of how the brain goes awry in conditions like learning disorders and social anxiety disorder.

Parents doing things like isolating a child from all activity or waking a child from sleep to check in could actually be making their child’s symptoms worse.

The discovery opens up a new avenue of research into autism’s causes and potential therapies.

UCLA researchers say that given the dominance of public spending in health care, a single-payer system might be more feasible than previously thought.

“Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón” features 43 prints that explore the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban secret society Abakuá. The exhibition opens Oct. 2.

UCLA urban planners create an interactive mapping tool to analyze whether developments near Los Angeles light-rail and subway projects displace people.

The campus is noted for excellence in research, service and social mobility. In a related ranking, UCLA placed No. 20 in “Best Bang for the Buck Western Colleges.”

The technique involved amplifying a protein signal without using enzymes, which takes the process from two to four hours down to 10 minutes.