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University of California President Mark Yudof presented the Board of Regents Wednesday a report that charted the significant changes of the past six years and offered a candid assessment of how UC is performing today.   Yudof, who will step...

In the midst of a raging national debate on how Americans use marijuana, a team of student researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs is collecting data that could help separate marijuana fact from fiction. Led by social welfare...

University of California students remain highly satisfied with their education overall, and with their access to courses needed to graduate, according to a survey of UC undergraduates released this week.   Despite dramatic reductions in state...

Canyon Diablo, a 357-pound chunk of a meteor that slammed into Earth 50,000 years ago, sits center stage at UCLA's new Meteorite Museum. Nearly 50,000 years ago, an asteroid fragment slammed into Earth approximately 40 miles east of what is...

Edgar A. Jones, Jr., UCLA School of Law professor emeritus and a national expert on labor law and arbitration, died May 10 in Los Angeles. He was 92. Jones was a distinguished legal scholar and an esteemed member of the UCLA School of Law faculty for ...

On Monday, May 13, UCLA officially kicked off its first annual Diversity Symposium, a weeklong series of programs ending May 18— including keynote speakers, lectures, film screenings, workshops and exhibits —  to promote diversity...

What does French stoneware from the 19th century have in common with the camera used to make Hollywood’s first feature movie and a miniature etching bearing the well-known slogan, “War is unhealthy for children and other living...

Angela Horne appointed new head of Anderson School Library Angela Horne has been appointed head of the Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Horne came to UCLA from the Catherwood,...

A UCLA professor and alumna were among the recipients at the third annual Nurse 21 awards honoring those who have demonstrated leadership in advancing health and for their commitments to enriching the nursing profession.

Dr. Edward De Robertis and Ernest Wright are the 42nd and 43rd current members of UCLA's faculty to receive the prestigious honor.

A virtual court is in session every day on the most pressing and complex issues of human rights and international criminal law. And citizens from around the world have a front-row seat to watch some of the best legal minds make their strongest case...

Not many people can say they cross a mountain range on their way to work — not on their own steam, anyway. But Annelie Rugg gets to campus from the West San Fernando Valley most days by bicycle.

Investigators botched their interviews of hundreds of children in the 1980s McMartin Preschool abuse case, critics charge.In 1983, a Manhattan Beach mother pressed police charges against McMartin Preschool teacher Ray Buckey, alleging he had...

On the faculty at UCLA since 1987, social welfare associate professor Alfreda Iglehart has circled the globe as a marathoner, completing runs in Beijing, Bangkok and Iceland. Rio de Janeiro is where she will be this year. She started...

Even while America experiences a recovery of sorts from the recent recessionary period, Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith, author of a new book, "Who Stole the American Dream?", says there is no cure in sight for the growing inequality...

The UCLA Hammer Museum has been awarded $100,000 to set up a pop-up village of local artisanal shops and galleries in the struggling Westwood Village area.   The money for Arts ReStore LA: Westwood comes from the Goldhirsh Foundation, which, as...

Norris. C. Hundley, Jr., a professor emeritus of history who was widely known for his work on western water rights, died April 28 in a Santa Barbara long-term care facility after a protracted battle with Lewy body dementia. He was 77 Hundley's ...