In an effort to move the needle forward to improve cancer detection techniques, the National Cancer Institute awarded $2.5 million to principal investigator Dr. David Wong, associate dean for research at the UCLA School of Dentistry.
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library has been awarded $261,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to describe and digitize annotated printed books from the hand-press era (ca. 1455–1830).
UCLA School of Law is joining the Los Angeles Police Commission, the Los Angeles Police Department and two other law schools to help establish a policy for the release of body camera footage by the police department.
California Professor of the Year Neil Garg, who has been getting large numbers of UCLA students to love organic chemistry for years, has been selected as one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.
UCLA history professor Carla Pestana, the holder of the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, has written a new book, "The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire," just published by Belknap Press-Harvard University.
UCLA Vice Provost for Enrollment Management Youlonda Copeland-Morgan traveled to Washington, D.C., to testify before Congress on how to improve federal student aid to better meet the needs of today’s students.
Basilio Santangelo, John Lambrechts and Paul Diaz decided to get vasectomies and share their stories publicly to encourage more men to consider their health.
A new undergraduate minor in international migration studies will aim to give students an appreciation of international migration, drawing on a broad array of disciplines and methodological approaches.
Jessica Harris, a UCLA assistant professor in the division of higher education and organizational change, has been selected as one of five recipients of the 2017–19 Emerging Scholar Award from the American College Personnel Association-College Educators International.
The researchers concluded that the UNAIDS approach would not be practical because it would require finding and treating a very large number of people in remote areas.
Elisa Long and Hal Hershfield, two faculty members at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, are on Poets and Quants’ list of 2017’s 40 most outstanding M.B.A. professors under 40.
Aslı Bâli, UCLA professor of law and director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, has co-edited a book on how the drafters of constitutions have addressed religious tensions in 14 countries.
All four UCLA hospitals were lauded by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for equitable, inclusive medical care for LGBTQ patients and their families.
CancerLocator, developed by UCLA researchers, was superior in detecting cancer in blood samples containing low levels of target DNA, which reflect early-stage disease.
Approximately 100 UCLA faculty members who were once first-generation college students are participating in a new effort to offer support and encouragement to current first-generation UCLA students as well as prospective students.