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If your New Year's resolution is to get healthier and live a more satisfying life, consider becoming a volunteer.

Four faculty members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been elected as Fellows of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

A festival celebrating the films, cuisine, fashion, popular and classical music artists, and graphic art of Russia, the Ukraine and the Baltics will kick off Friday, Dec. 9, at UCLA. 

The study is released as the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The project supports interdisciplinary teams in their work to identify and test approaches for curing people infected with HIV who have established latent reservoirs of the virus.

The roots of America’s widespread opioid addiction are multifaceted and extend to the economy, bad medicine and corrupt pharmacists, said UCLA legal scholar and health policy expert Jill Horwitz.

The new observations confirm a long-standing theory that stars are copious producers of heavy elements.

The University of California will vigorously protect the privacy and civil rights of undocumented members of the UC community and will direct its police departments not to undertake joint efforts with any government agencies to enforce federal immigration law.

The artist explores both personal and political issues on themes such as class, gender and race.

Economist Jerry Nickelsburg on how not leveraging the windfall of abundant natural resources into investments into education and infrastructure limits economic growth.

The work of UCLA School of Law’s Supreme Court Clinic will be on full display when the U.S. Supreme Court convenes for oral arguments early next year.

Dr. Ronald Mito, professor of clinical dentistry and executive associate dean for academic programs and personnel at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was awarded the 2016 Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni Faculty Award by the California Dental Association.

The Society of Multivariate Behavioral Research has awarded UCLA professor emeritus of computer science Judea Pearl the 2017 Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research.

Architecture professor Thom Mayne says that adding density around Wilshire Boulevard could accommodate 1 million new people in Los Angeles while promoting sustainability.

The drought is highlighting disparities in the price of water that vary widely, depending on who is supplying it in this archaic and complex water delivery system serving Southern California.

The UCLA neurosurgeon received the William G. Lennox Award from the American Epilepsy Society.

Proceeds will benefit underprivileged families and individuals in L.A., as well as struggling UCLA students.

In a letter sent today, University of California President Janet Napolitano joined leaders of the California State University and California Community College systems to allow the nation's students known as Dreamers to continue their education.

Distinguished Professor Michelle Craske has been named the 2017 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology,  a premier organization for academic clinical psychology. 

Sherie Morrison is the recipient of the 2016 Immunology,  Inflammation,  Infection and Transplantation Excellence in Research Award, established to honor individuals who have made seminal contributions to basic and translational immunology.

Chih-Ming Ho, a UCLA distinguished research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of bioengineering, was recently elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The headdresses that will be on display reflect the blending of cultural influences and peoples in the port city of Freetown during the 1970s.

UCLA Anderson has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation, the independent foundation created by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, a U.S Navy veteran.

More than 60 UCLA volunteers pitched in to help veterans and the homeless celebrate at the West Los Angeles VA campus.

UCLA’s Bonnie Zima and colleagues found that the number of pediatric hospitalizations that included a psychiatric diagnosis rose 138 percent between 2005 and 2014.