The team launching the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge is inviting non-represented staff members to participate in a groundbreaking, campuswide initiative aimed at understanding, preventing and treating depression.
The annual awards recognize technology projects that demonstrate the program’s values, including innovation, collaboration and operational efficiency, and that advance UC’s teaching, research, health care,and public service missions.
The researchers identified genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression and several other disorders.
Every year as Californians file their state income taxes, they have an opportunity to help University of California researchers and others in the fight against cancer.
The Companion Care Program provides specially trained volunteers who offer individualized companionship to older adult patients while they are hospitalized.
As part of Desert X, a contemporary art exhibition in Palm Springs, UCLA art professor Jennifer Bolande provides a cinematic experience for passersby animated by driving along the Gene Autry Trail.
The UCLA Luskin Community Scholars received national recognition in the applied research category from the American Planning Association’s professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, for a 2015-16 study.
UCLA professor and vice chair of the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences Alex Hall will be honored as an innovator in climate change research by Climate Resolve, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit.
The biannual Faculty Research Lecture presents the work of UCLA's most distinguished scholars to give the campus and the greater community an opportunity to gain a new perspective on their scholarly achievements.
UCLA Campus Architect Jeffrey B. Averill, 61, who oversaw the design of every major campus building for 15 years and shepherded UCLA’s transformation into an environmentally friendly institution, died Feb. 27.
UCLA physics professor Joseph Rudnick recalls his father's bold experiment and result that verified a later theory that won three other physicists the 2016 Nobel Prize.
Twenty-three high school students are getting a unique opportunity to launch their future careers in the health care field, thanks to a new hands-on internship program.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics Reports, more than one in five U.S. births now occur in states where marijuana is legal.
Jessica Peake, director of UCLA School of Law's International and Comparative Law Program, traveled to Kabul in January to serve as a judge at the Afghanistan National Rounds of the Phillip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
UCLA’s extensive water-saving program garnered the Water Efficiency Project of the Year award, presented by the environmentally focused organization the Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge at its third annual Innovation Awards ceremony.