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A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineering faculty has received research funding as part of a major Army Research Laboratory-funded initiative.

Martin, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been appointed by California Gov. Jerry Brown to the 14-member committee that will advise the governor's office.

Gina Kornfeind is the support and bereavement coordinator for the Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Halfon, founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the academy.

Three researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently been awarded grants from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The grant comes from Shandong Longlive Bio-technology Co., a China-based company that produces functional sugars.

To understand how weather patterns behaved centuries ago, the researchers examined the rings of trees such as limber pines and bristlecone pines, the oldest living organisms on Earth.

On Nov. 9, UCLA alumnus William “Bill” Beigel, who connects families to relatives’ World War II service, will speak at the James West Alumni Center.

Michael Green, UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, will deliver the 123rd Faculty Research Lecture about a topic that has fascinated him for decades.

“Journalism in Mexico: A Deadly Occupation” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum at UCLA.

Elaine Hsiao, assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, and Hosea Nelson, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, are among 18 winners.

UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández’s Million Dollar Hoods project that maps the costs of incarceration in Los Angeles is now housed at the center.

MarySue Heilemann, associate professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, has focused her scholarship on improving the accuracy of portrayals of nurses in film and television.

Nearly 3,000 people are expected come to campus for Bruin Family Weekend.

Ivanov a world-renowned linguist, Indo-Europeanist, anthropologist and literary scholar was a member of the UCLA community for the past quarter-century.

The grants totaling more than $10 million highlight innovative biomedical research projects.

Lecturer Tananarive Due uses the acclaimed horror blockbuster and other films and books to examine how depictions of blackness have shaped real-life attitudes and prejudice.

Open enrollment begins at 8 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 26 and will end at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 21.

The grant “will allow UCLA to continue our decade-long preeminence in groundbreaking autism research,” said Dr. Daniel Geschwind, director of the UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment.

The researchers found that mouse models that lacked the protein IDOL performed poorly in behavioral tests of spatial memory and fear-based conditioning.

Titan’s liquid methane rain appears to play a major role in shaping its icy surface, and the downpours are much more common than researchers expected.

The grant will enable scholars to pursue new research, develop state-of-the-art digital resources and forge international collaborations.

The UCLA Health program provides surgical and medical treatment, and psychological health support for post-9/11-era service members, veterans and their families.

The group’s work will pertain only to retiree health benefits and does not affect UC retirement plan pension benefits.

The discovery in the amygdala provides insights into how the organ regulates emotions and social behavior.