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UCLA Film and Television Archive will showcase the Australian film, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project on Thursday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm. at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater.

A series of information-packed newsletters published by students working for UCLA's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has eased the arduous search for research funding for faculty.

A team of researchers led by UCLA professor Sean Young is among the first of five recipients of a new University of California research grant intended to spur discoveries with direct societal impacts.

Learn about the complex interrelatedness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in a presentation at UCLA on Thursday, Dec. 11, 4-6 p.m. at Charles E. Young Research Library, Room 11360.

John Goodlad, former dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education from 1967 to 1983, died in Seattle on Nov. 29 at age 94. He was the author of a seminal book on the largest study of U.S. schools ever conducted at the time.

Lokubanda Tillakaratne has spent more than three decades helping his former village in many different ways. Now he's published a book of facts, figures, interviews and personal recollections of life there.

Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek of UCLA's Department of Electrical Engineering has received funding from NASA to study new coding and signal processing mechanisms to help overcome unreliability in memories used in deep space applications.

Greg Carman, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Marvel Comics luminaries Stan Lee and Roy Thomas will join director Kevin Smith on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., at the Hammer Museum for a discussion of the venerable publisher’s long history.

The acclaimed documentary 'Hoop Dreams' (1994) screens on Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater, with an appearance by director Steve James.

In response to the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill disaster, UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Science professors, Jeroen Molemaker and James McWillams, have been awarded $2 million by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.

Students found special treats decking their dining halls this week when the bakery team delivered gingerbread versions of UCLA’s Royce Hall, Powell Library, Kerckhoff Hall and Haines Hall.

Lillie Hsu and Dion Raymond have long-standing “heart-centered connections” to UCLA. The newly-created position of Discrimination Prevention Officer is a key component to remedying bias, improving campus climate and strengthening UCLA’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.

Jayanti Tambe has been named executive director, UCLA Early Care and Education, effective Feb. 1, 2015.

Candice Levy, a UCLA lecturer in Jewish Studies, will discuss ‘Unjust Suffering and the Afterlife’ for the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 4-5:30 p.m.

Professor Rachelle Crosbie-Watson received the 2014 Lotus Award from Coalition Duchenne for her outstanding contributions to Duchenne muscular dystrophy education, research and awareness.

The premiere of the grand opera 'La Paloma y el Ruiseñor' in Mazatlán, Mexico, earned accolades for UCLA professors Roger Bourland and Mitchell Morris.

A team of volunteers from the UCLA School of Dentistry spent a busy Saturday, Nov. 22, providing free dental treatment to nearly 100 adults and children during the second annual Treatment Day at the school's Westwood clinics.

Each have been honored for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

UCLA Health Auxiliary's Adopt-A-Family Program helps brighten the holidays of patients at UCLA’s medical centers and their families facing severe illness and extraordinary financial challenges.

UCLA professor emeritus John Hawkins delivered keynote addresses on issues in higher education in during a recent visit to Asia.

From poultry to pies and sugar to soil, UC scientists are uncovering insights across the food spectrum that can make your holidays healthier, happier and more mindful.

Dr. Amy Rosenman has been installed as the new president of the American Urogynecologic Society, the nation's largest professional scientific organization devoted to the field of pelvic floor disorders.

Lisa Snyder, a modeling and visualization expert at UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Implementation grant to develop 3D content software VSim.

Dr. Jeremy M. Blumberg, an assistant professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and surgical director of renal transplantation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, reminisces about a past Thanksgiving when he was asked to recover the organs of an infant who had drowned.