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UCLA is No. 2 among the nation’s public universities and No. 23 overall in the 2016 U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges Rankings,” and was named the best public university for veterans.

For his courage dealing with sickle cell anemia, 9-year-old Luc Bodden was designated the fourth “Kid Captain” by Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and the football team.

UCLA Law experts review 2015 decisions on same-sex marriage, Affordable Care Act tax subsidies, housing discrimination, more.

The models predict that the area burned by Santa Ana fires will increase by 64 percent and the are burned by non-Santa Ana fires will increase by 77 percent.

UCLA's Dribble for the Cure bounces into campus on Sunday, Oct. 11.

Even if union workers are exempted from the city’s forthcoming minimum wage increase, study predicts, there would be minimal short-term impact on their salaries.

UCLA BruinTech’s 2015-16 Executive Board, a campuswide team of information technology experts, has taken office.

Professor John Villasenor writes on Slate that the cyberattackers would bear primary responsibility but manufacturers and car owners could face some liability, too.

Peggy Fong, UCLA professor and vice chair of the ecology and evolutionary biology department, has won the William A. Niering Outstanding Educator Award from the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation.

The Okawa Foundation awarded UCLA professor of computer science Miryung Kim a research grant of $84,000 to support her research project titled “Toward Interactive Debugging of Big Data Analytics.” 

As part of the Hammer Museum’s Forum, Sen. Bob Graham, co-chair of the joint Congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will address part of the Sept. 11 report that remains classified.

A book authored by a team of 20 students in a UCLA labor studies minor class tells the stories of immigrant families whose lives were disrupted by deportation. “Dreams Deported: Immigrant Youth and Families Resist Deportation” was recently published by the UCLA Labor Center.

Anthropologist Susan Perry has observed extraordinarily sophisticated political strategies in capuchin monkey behavior that mirror the social machinations so common in human workplaces.

UCLA Operation Mend was honored with a 2015 Newman's Own Award and $50,000 grant during a ceremony at the Pentagon on Sept. 2.

Other diagnostic tools may be more efficient and cost-effective for the general population, although genetic screening remains valuable for women in groups known to carry certain genetic mutations.

The effort will be based at five academic research centers in three states, including California, but is intended to be a national resource.

Soraya de Chadarevian, a professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, has been awarded an NSF grant to explore the history of genetics research.

UCLA Anderson professor Jerry Nickelsburg writes that market forces have elevated food safety to an overriding concern in agricultural trade between China and the United States.

“Treasured Textiles” traces the flowering of three different weaving traditions.

“The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” is the first major U.S. exhibition of Canadian artist Lawren Harris, an innovator on par with contemporaries Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Working with the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, the operating room staff at Reagan UCLA Medical Center collected hundreds of school supplies for needy children.

Until doctors filled a tiny hole in her inner ear, Rachel Pyne suffered from superior semicircular canal dehiscence, which made her suffer through the sounds of her heart beating, her food digesting and even the shifting of her eyes.

UCLA historian Richard Hovannisian, a founder and six-time president of the Society for Armenian Studies, talks about what inspired him, what surprises him and what he thinks of the most well-known Armenian-American.

Aided by a “robotic exoskeleton” device, the 39-year-old man was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps.