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Exploring the brave new world of microbiota may one day lead to the development of better ways to manage infections, create new antibiotics and address obesity, heart disease and cancer.

The Science and Entertainment Exchange at UCLA connects scientists with filmmakers to bring scientific accuracy to the big screen.

Takahashi, professor of urban planning and Asian American studies, has been appointed interim leader of the school effective immediately.

The school has risen rapidly since its creation in 2007 with a visionary $30 million gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation.

Regardless of where they are from, people judge acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago.

‘Kids in the Courtyard: Indian Sweets and Games,’ a free event for families, will take place at the UCLA Fowler Museum on Sunday, Aug. 9 from 1-4 p.m.

Film director Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It' (1986) and 'Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads' (1983) screen on Aug. 8 as part of a UCLA Film and Television Archive series.

John Hawkins, emeritus professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has published 'Research, Development and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education.'

Michelle Caswell, assistant professor of information studies, received the Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her book, 'Archiving the the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia.'

A record number of students from all over the world recently completed Anderson School of Management's annual MEMES Summer Institutes.

John Papadopoulos, UCLA professor of classical archaeology, history and culture in the UCLA College, has received a $286,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for an archaeological excavation of the ancient Greek city of Methone.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games brought athletes and their families from around the world to UCLA. Some of our favorite moments.

Matthew Lieberman, professor of psychology at UCLA, received the 2015 SESP Career Trajectory Award on behalf of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

The new ceramics hold promise for use in miniature mechanical components and flexible-yet-strong foils for use in solar sails, which are used to propel spacecraft, among many other applications.

New research is particularly important in light of the recent rise in cases of measles in the U.S.

UCLA researchers found that a subset of ovarian cancer cells that don’t produce the CA125 protein biomarker, used to test for ovarian cancer, have an enhanced ability to repair their DNA and resist programmed cell death.

UCLA Hammer Museum screens comedian Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious,' followed by a discussion with artist Mark Bradford and UCLA associate professor of English Uri McMillan on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 7:30, at the Billy Wilder Theater.

UCLA Extension writing instructor Nathan Deuel writes in New York Times Magazine about how walking from New York to New Orleans made him fall in love with these simple, supremely comfortable running shoes.

The new members, all UCLA alumni and long-time supporters, will serve two-year terms.

UCLA Health has been providing all the staff, materials and supplies to run the Special Olympics Polyclinic since July 24 to offer free medical care to any athlete or delegate who becomes injured.

New research highlights the value of a program at UCLA's Semel Institute that teaches social skills to high-functioning young adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Teens who have a positive role model, an adult mentor at school, and who volunteer or participate in extracurricular clubs are less likely to be overweight.

The DNA-based discovery means the biological family Canidae has 36 members, not 35.

Public health professor Roshan Bastani, director of UCLA’s Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, joined a panel of health experts at a Zócalo event to discuss how to help low-income families stay healthy.

Five men who have been completely paralyzed for years moved their legs in a rhythmic motion, thanks to a noninvasive method of stimulating the spinal cord, UCLA scientists report.