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UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish honored author and educator Rabbi Elliot Dorff with the organization’s inaugural Leve Award.

Ivo Welch notes that the energy consumption to fuel the digital currency is equivalent to the consumption of just fewer than 2 million average U.S. households.

Kimberlé Crenshaw has been named the winner of the 2016–17 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University.

UCLA is third among American public universities, according to the 2018 Best Global Universities rankings.

In pre-World War II Germany, sports clubs became a vehicle to spread Nazism.

The film highlights the perspectives of women activists in the Indonesian women’s movement who were political prisoners in 1965.

Some of UCLA’s most-accomplished faculty and alumni are attending the magazine’s weeklong event, which attracts business, technology, design and entertainment notables.

UCLA researchers identified where and how to electrically stimulate the human brain in order to strengthen people’s recall.

Renee Tajima-Peña’s award-winning documentary “No Más Bebés” tells the story of how these women were sterilized without their consent or under extreme duress from doctors.

Among the highlights are a $50 million gift from Mattel, Inc. to the children’s hospital — the largest corporate gift in UCLA history — and the most gifts ever from young alumni.

In a clinical trial, a UCLA-led team used a biomaterial embedded with tiny gems to help tissue heal after the procedure.

The Hammer Museum will show the 2015 documentary about forced sterilization directed by UCLA professor Renee Tajima-Peña, followed by a Q&A.

Award-winning comedy television writers with degrees in mathematics and science discuss “The Calculus of Comedy: Math in The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Big Bang Theory” on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017.

A UCLA Nursing study found that combining education and entertainment helped encourage patients to seek therapy.

UCLA Staff Assembly and Campus Human Resources will host a learn-at-lunch event from noon to 1 p.m. on Nov. 15. focusing on changes to UC health plans.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will host the premiere director Chen Mei-Juin’s debut feature film at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Former UCLA football standout and assistant coach John Johnson died in his sleep on Oct. 14 at the age of 96.

As part of UCLA Free Speech Week, a panel of lawyers and scholars debated the effects of free speech and examined who benefits and is harmed when limits are imposed.

UCLA researchers are using genetics to find out whether the elusive Southern California snake is an endangered species.

Psychologist Patricia Greenfield’s “Weaving Generations Together” is on display at Powell Library through Dec. 15.

The recipients of UCLA’s highest honor for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Awards, were honored by the Academic Senate at a ceremony at the Chancellor’s residence on Oct. 11.

Highlights include honors for Ava DuVernay and Hilton Als and tributes from J.J. Abrams and Maggie Nelson, live performance by HAIM.

As the new director, Lee wants to utilize UCLA’s “tremendous group of scholars” to collaborate and shape the work being done at the center.

Shoup, the distinguished professor of urban planning and internationally renownded guru of parking, received Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

UCLA Luskin professors Laura Wray-Lake and Laura Abrams will lead the study of what youth civic engagement looks like in urban contexts.