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The UCLA Medical Group has earned a four-star ranking, the highest achievement possible, in the California Association of Physician Groups' (CAPG) seventh annual Standards of Excellence survey.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, already among the best medical schools in the nation, is getting ready to break ground on a medical education building that will change the face of the school's teaching and learning efforts.   The...

This copper portrait medal of Hippocrates was designed by Jacques Devigne for the Paris Mint in 1983. It is part of the Ralph R. and Patricia N. Sonnenschein Collection of Medical and Scientific Portrait and Commemorative Medals. The ancient...

  Each morning as the gate to fenced-in Gladys Park is unlocked, homeless men and women move in from wherever they have spent the night on downtown L.A.’s skid row. One group gathers near the portable bathroom stalls in the park; others...

Ambassador Ryan Crocker identified three top priorities for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East when he delivered the annual Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace organized by the UCLA Burkle Center for International...

The sweet scent of strawberries and other locally grown produce attracted students, faculty and passersby to the last Farmers' Market of the academic year in Bruin Plaza Thursday. "I’ve been here twice today,” said first-year...

Students on The Hill swapped hundreds of books, clothes, electronic items and more during the End-of-Year Exchange at DeNeve Plaza last Saturday afternoon. Sponsored by the On-Campus Housing Council, a student organization, the event was...

Liao is being recognized for his breakthrough work synthesizing alcohol into biofuels that has the potential for use in numerous industrial and energy applications.

UCLA's Film and Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program present a very special evening with the legendary Kirk Douglas as part of their celebration of Burt Lancaster's enduring legacy on the centennial of his birth...

Susanna Hecht is a professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and is also on faculty in the Department of Geography and affiliated with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her new book,...

Dr. Douglas Junge, a professor emeritus of oral biology and medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry, passed away on May 5. He was 75.

Andrzej Korbonski, a professor emeritus in UCLA’s Department of Political Science, died May 13 at his home in Pacific Palisades following an extended illness. He was 86. A Polish-American scholar whose contributions to communist and post-communist ...

  Construction crews working on a residence hall accidentally knocked over a fire hydrant Thursday afternoon, causing water to shoot about 70 feet in the air on Young Drive West near Sproul Presidio, according to Assistant Fire Marshall Steve...

    Take a 15-minute work break Tuesday to save a life.   The UCLA Center for Prehospital Care and Campus Emergency Medical Services will be offering free Hands-Only CPR training Tuesday, June 4, in Bruin Plaza between 10 a.m. and 2...

If Karen Carpenter, Barry Manilow, Barry White, Dolly Parton and Cher number among your guilty pleasures, Mitchell Morris is your man.   In a new book, the UCLA musicologist rises to the defense of these and other ‘70s recording artists...

That old iPod or MP3 player you’ve got stashed away in a junk drawer could be bringing sweet music to someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.   Alzheimer's researcher Joshua Grill wants to send your old iPod or MP3 player to a...

Daniel Losen remembers the hard lesson he learned as an elementary teacher faced with the problem of dealing with misbehaving students in his classroom. He realized that sending them to the principal’s office, as he frequently did, just showed...