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Now housed in the UCLA Department of English, the University of California Press magazine is produced by Jon Christensen with support from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Matute studies how to transform notoriously car-dependent cities like Los Angeles into cleaner, greener, but still useable public-transit hubs. Here, he talks policy, climate change and what we can do.

Quyen Di Chuc Bui not only teaches Vietnamese language, literature and culture, but he teaches other teachers how to do the same. Photo by Peggy McInerny/UCLA. Quyen Di Chuc Bui, the head of UCLA’s Vietnamese language program, doesn’t...

Zocalo Public Square recently invited economist M.V. Lee Badgett, research director of UCLA’s Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of...

Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) is hosting a Balkan Dance Party on the Royce Hall Terrace Tuesday, Oct. 8, free and open to UCLA students, faculty and staff. Starting at 6:30 p.m. and featuring performances from Free Range...

Professor Chrisi Karvonides who teaches costume design in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and four TFT alums will be part of the world premiere of Frank Zappa’s surrealistic "200 Motels" at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

New director of Office for Students with Disabilities  Edward McCloskey, a staff member at UCLA since 1992, is the new director of the Office for Students with Disabilities, announced Monroe Gorden, Jr., assistant vice chancellor of student...

UCLA nurse Millicent Manyore extracts an embedded chigoe flea, known as a "jigger," from a baby's foot at a clinic she helped organize in her homeland of Kenya. Photos from Medical Missions Kenya. During her overnight shifts at Ronald Reagan UCLA...

A group of staff from UCLA's New Student and Transition Program delivered more than 500 toys and boxes of decorated stars to Mattel Children's Hospital Thursday. During first-year student orientation sessions this summer, new Bruins...

Up until 40 years ago, few Americans ever questioned the extent to which their lifestyles relied on cheap gasoline. The oil crisis of 1973 changed that forever as horrified people watched gas prices spike astronomically and gas stations run dry...

Students in political science professor Kathleen Bawn's hybrid "Politics and Strategy" view videotaped lectures online (above), then attend weekly in-class workshops with Bawn and her TAs to fine-tune what they've learned. Kathleen Bawn, a...

Most University of California employees will see only small increases in monthly premiums for medical insurance next year and some people's rates will go down, a marked departure from the pattern of price increases in recent years.   The...

With big changes coming to UC’s 2014 health benefits that will affect nearly a third of employees systemwide, it’s more important than ever to have the information you need to make smart choices during Open Enrollment, Oct. 28-Nov. 26. Learn about...

  NBC Janet Napolitano assumes the post of UC president today. The University of California today welcomed Janet Napolitano, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and twice-elected governor of Arizona,...

September 30, 2013   UC COMMUNITY OF LEARNINGDear Friends:It is a privilege and an honor to write to you today, my first day as the twentieth President of the University of California. I am both excited and humbled by the...