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The suspect in the Jan. 7 incident is described as a light-skinned Caucasian male with short dark hair, approximately 30 to 35 years old, 5'10" to 6 feet tall, with a thin build.

The team's multidisciplinary research efforts will reshape and improve how images and large data sets are collected and analyzed in science, engineering, medicine and other fields.

Researchers found that with a small dose of extra training, physicians were more thorough and informative in discussing medicines and their effects with patients.

Compared to kids who are not overweight, obese children are at nearly twice the risk of having a slew of medical, mental and developmental difficulties, UCLA researchers found.

The grant funds a unique project that brings together faculty from architecture, urban studies and the humanities to study contemporary issues in four of the world's most complex cities.

The ruling has affirmed UCLA's commitment to fair business practices and the speedy commercialization of university technologies for the benefit of the public.

Markov, whose colorful life involved stints as a battlefield courier and farmworker, followed by a long career as a pioneering academic, died Jan. 1. He was 91.

"This is a hidden gem on the UCLA campus," La Kretz said of the seven-acre oasis, which is home to thousands of species of plants. "I'm delighted to be able to lend my support."

UCLA researchers studying mice found that the overall amount of high-fat, high-sugar food one consumes has surprisingly little to do with how obese one becomes.

"The mentoring experience will be profound for us," said Hancock of his and Shorter's new role instructing jazz performance students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Neurologists add benomyl to a growing list of chemicals tied to the disease and propose a wholly new target for future Parkinson's therapies.

The endowment comes from the estate of late UC regent Frank Clark and his wife, Dorothy, benefactors who helped create leading-edge UCLA urology centers.

Jewitt was awarded the prizes, each worth $1 million, for his role in the 1993 discovery of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

Music industry executive and philanthropist Morris "Mo" Ostin has donated $10 million for a state-of-the-art campus music complex to be known as the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center.

John Wooden, UCLA's legendary former basketball coach, has died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. His 100th birthday would have been Oct. 14.

UCLA's Center for African American Studies will host an open house to welcome members of the campus and greater Los Angeles community to its new building and meet its new director, Darnell M. Hunt. The open house and reception will be Tuesday...