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Academic Senate has selected the recipients of the 2017-2018 Faculty Research Lectureships: 123rd Faculty Research Lecture, Michael Green (Psychiatry) 124th Faculty Research Lecture, Ellen DuBois (History).

Despite initiatives launched by community groups, foundations and government agencies, unemployment and poverty have worsened in most areas of South Los Angeles.

New state and local policies promoting energy use transparency, public transit funding and sustainable development make researchers are optimistic for improvement.

The award is funded by a gift endowment established by the late Edward A. Dickson, a UC regent from 1913 to 1946, to honor outstanding UCLA emeriti for research, scholarly work, teaching and service.

Because of his shortage of Capitol Hill contacts and his complete lack of experience in wrangling legislation, Trump may feel more tempted — or obliged — than previous presidents to try and cram his agenda through by executive fiat, the panelists said.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is an internationally recognized ensemble whose mentors include the legendary Herbie Hancock, Herb Alpert and Wayne Shorter.

With an all-female ensemble, choreographers Darrian O’Reilly and Sarah Jacobs combine physical humor and idiosyncratic theatricality to animate the Fowler courtyard from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17.

Stand Up To Cancer has awarded a total of $1 million to four teams of cancer researchers to advance innovation in collaboration.

A UCLA report finds that big cuts to health care benefits would hurt the disabled, children and elderly Americans.

On May 4, the campus community and public can celebrate the impact of this initiative at the #DreamRevolution event at Sunset Recreation Center.

May cover story notes that Terence Tao is “widely considered one of the greatest minds currently working in mathematics.”

Chef Massimo Bottura, whose Osteria Francescana is among the world’s most highly regarded restaurants, will appear at the fifth annual public lecture.

Two days after delivering his annual address on the State of the City at City Hall, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti returned to the UCLA Lab School where he had “the most important educational experience of my life.”

Tony Award–winning playwright and activist Eve Ensler and UCLA professor and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a conversation and offer strategies for surviving the current political climate as antiracist feminists.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager David Roberts, who graduated from UCLA in 1995, remembers his four years as a student and Bruin athlete as some of the best of his life.

Robert Hill is among 16 outstanding individuals being awarded honorary degrees from the University of Toronto.

This one-time event will feature work by current and former UCLA faculty and alumni to support the renovation and expansion of the studios.

Scientists from UCLA and other universities developed a system that tests when global warming contributes to record-setting weather events, and to what extent.

UCLA historian and author Benjamin Madley won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for his  “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873”

Dr. Abbas Ardehali, a professor of surgery and medicine, has been selected as a 2017 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.

Sam Emaminejad, assistant professor of electrical engineering at UCLA, has demonstrated that a wearable biosensor can be used in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, diabetes and other diseases.

Teams of UCLA Law students and colleagues from other schools at UCLA competed by offering detailed presentations on their innovative companies to a group of experienced venture funders and business attorneys.

Join the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures for five days of kyogen with living national treasure Mansaku Nomura and his student Yukio Ishida.

Watch 12 finalists complete in this competition to determine who best can represent UCLA in explaining their research to the public in three minutes. The winner advances to the systemwide contest May 4.

UCLA researchers found that volunteerism surged among people in low-income groups who lived in states that enacted the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.