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"In the Shadow" was the Czech Republic’s 2012 entry into the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Film category. The noir thriller about corruption during the Communist regime of the 1950s will be shown on June 3 at the UCLA Film & Television...

Chancellor Gene Block and UCLA staff members gathered today for 10 minutes of exercise to honor Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and advocate for health equity and proponent of "Instant Recess."

Approximately 150 staff and faculty, including Chancellor Gene Block and his staff, took an Instant Recess break and exercised this afternoon (May 7) in the Center for Health Sciences plaza as a tribute to Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, a public...

Bruins have an opportunity to be part of a nationwide tribute to Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey, who died April 23 after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. More than 50 organizations across the country will participate at 1 p.m. Tuesday in...

A veteran recently back from a two-year deployment in Iraq, Michelle was struggling with PTSD and memory loss due to a combat-related traumatic brain injury while raising her three kids alone and in the midst of a custody battle with her abusive...

Extroverts draw us in with their energy and enthusiasm, but they can disappoint when it comes to teamwork.Your department is interviewing candidates for a team to launch an ambitious new project. Among them is Darren, an energetic, confident...

Acclaimed photographer David Hume Kennerly will discuss photography during times of crisis and upheaval Wednesday on May 1 at noon at the Fowler Museum. In 1972 Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his work documenting...

In October of 1957, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley announced that he was moving the storied franchise to Los Angeles. Historians have since debated O'Malley's motives — including his frustration over not being able to build a new...

Archaeology supporters and their family members have a lot to look forward to as UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology celebrates its 40th anniversary at its annual open house, a 16-year tradition for the...

The 2 million veterans who are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. As they come home, they have the potential to change the lives of civilians, too.   On Saturday at a Zócalo/UCLA forum at...

Yancey, perhaps best known as the creator of "Instant Recess", an award-winning program dedicated to "making America healthier 10 minutes at a time," died April 23 of lung cancer.

New book sparks a national conversation around its central premise: Was Austen ahead of her time as a romance strategist? "Sir, you flatter me," Austen responds from the dead.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA’s Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History and director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, has been elected to the Collège de France, a renown Paris-based academic institution.

If you want to know how the public feels about the cities of New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, you don’t have to do extensive polling or launch in-depth surveys. Just look at how they are portrayed in hit movies, suggest new findings from a...