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UCLA's Code for the Mission Competition seeks new approaches to advancing UCLA's mission of education, research and service.

If you heard any screams of excitement Friday evening, they might have come from some of the thousands of excited high school seniors who just learned they were new admits to UCLA’s freshman class entering this fall.

The initiative will train a new generation to help achieve a set of ambitious U.N.-approved goals to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance education and make cities more sustainable.

As part of the United Nations World Water Day on March 22, UCLA will take part in Tuesday’s White House Water Summit that aims to raise awareness of water challenges in the United States.

UCLA encourages sustainable transportation with a number of programs, and incentives, including providing subsidized transit passes, vanpool subsidies and bicycling infrastructure.

Pandemonium broke out today, Match Day, on the terrace at Covel Commons when 165 medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ripped open envelopes to find out where they have been accepted for residency.

How to tell if you’re sleep deprived, how much sleep is optimal and things you can do to make sure you get the rest you need to stay healthy.

The professor of human genetics and biological chemistry has been awarded the 2016 Edward Novitski Prize for his pioneering body of work in genetics.

Dan McLaughlin, who, for 37 years, headed an animation program at UCLA that was considered one of the finest in the country, died in his sleep on March 15 in West Hills, California. He was 83.

Law professor Ethan Elkind writes that politics drove the decision to extend the Gold Line into the San Gabriel Valley, where low-density neighborhoods would have been served better by bus rapid transit.

By temporarily inactivating a part of the brain involved in impulse control, the researchers discovered compelling evidence that humans are predisposed to be generous to others.

Silva and Tetradis were selected as being among the most promising individuals to become leaders in dental and higher education.

A charge nurse at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Vandegrift oversees an ongoing stream of patients and the doctors and nurses who care for them.

At-risk faculty, staff and students will be invited to participate in a program found effective in preventing type 2 diabetes.

The research provides the first evidence that a mother’s cortisol patterns before conception influence the weight of her baby.

More than 1 in 9 people around the world do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and the problem is expected to worsen due in part to climate change.

A professor of urban planning and Chicana and Chicano studies, Valenzuela has played a leading role in elucidating the phenomenon of day labor.

The honor recognizes the professor of education and Asian American studies for notable and sustained research achievements.

The 1996 film, about the relationship between two women in loveless marriages, spurred intense controversy in India and won honors worldwide.

UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center offers 12 meditations — each from five to 19 minutes long and four of them in Spanish — online and at iTunes.

Beginning March 22, Peter Cowe, the Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies at UCLA, and Movses Pogossian, UCLA professor of violin, will lead a group of graduate students from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music to Armenia.

UCLA’s impressive showing demonstrates its broad academic excellence and reinforces its reputation as one of the country’s finest postsecondary institutions.

CNN’s chief international correspondent, Amanpour has covered major crises and interviewed top leaders around the world for two decades. RSVPs for the lecture are now being accepted.

The UCLA lecturer leads the Vietnamese language program and also prepares immigrant volunteers to teach Vietnamese in their communities.

Psychologist Robert Bjork's intriguing presentation is now available in the Faculty Research Lecture Archives.