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Dr. Alan Felsenfeld, a professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry, was appointed chair of the American Dental Association’s Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition.

Doctors are encouraged to see that a growing number of cancer patients are being snatched from the precipice by novel immunotherapy treatments.

Archaeologist Laura Tedesco and Abbas Kamwand of the U.S. Embassy will discuss efforts to save the art and culture of Afghanistan in a Hammer Forum at UCLA's Hammer Museum on Tuesday, June 30.

Adam Winkler notes that the legal reasoning used by Chief Justice John Roberts in the decision that upheld the president’s signature health care law will preserve it against future challenges.

Shaina Zaidi, a former UCLA Women’s Basketball student-athlete, has been named director of the Bruin Varsity Club by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.

Beginning this fall, the University of California will provide students with the option to voluntarily self-identify their sexual orientation and gender identity on the undergraduate admission application to help the university better understand and meet the diverse needs of its students.

University of California President Janet Napolitano shared good news about the positive impact that California’s 2015-16 final budget will have on the university, from employee compensation to undergraduate tuition.

In its historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court today cited research by Gary Gates, the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

Four research projects will receive inaugural grants in a new UCLA School of Dentistry program to provide seed funding to launch pioneering basic and translational research.

The gift will go toward the Terasaki Center’s program endowment allowing for new initiatives that focus on community engagement.

More than 50 people came together today to share deeply felt anger, compassion, fear and frustration as well as hope for healing in response to last week’s tragic shooting in South Carolina.

Individual tickets for all upcoming shows by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA go on sale on Friday. Tickets may be purchased via cap.ucla.edu, Ticketmaster or directly through the UCLA Central Ticket Office.

Newer, more targeted method, called partial breast irradiation, takes less time to complete and is less likely to expose vital organs to potentially harmful radiation.

Adult obesity rates varied widely by county: San Francisco County had the lowest, 11.3 percent, and Imperial County the highest, 41.7 percent.

“The idea of the summit is that the youth take the lead and the adults listen,” said UCLA’s Darnell Hunt.

Law professor Eugene Volokh writes in the L.A. Times that he thinks the University of California needs to remember the special place universities hold as forums for opposing ideas and open debate.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA will present “Singular Spaces," an exhibition on view from April 12 until Sept. 6 that features photographs of Spanish art environments made by self-taught artists across the Iberian Peninsula.

Zocalo and UCLA will host a discussion about the policies, services and street strategies that will help homeless people stay off the streets, 7:30 -9:30 p.m., Monday, June 29, at the Plaza on Olvera Street.

Margaret Steele, a veteran of development and fundraising for more than 30 years, has been named executive director of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation.

The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, concluded that doctors should consider prescribing the long-lasting injectable much earlier in the course of treatment than they typically do today.

Social welfare assistant professor from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Ian Holloway has been selected as a 2015-16 Hellman Fellow for his research.

A gathering of the UCLA campus community will be held at noon Thursday, June 25, to honor the nine lives lost in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Better mentorship, revised performance reviews and more transparency are among the recommendations shared at a recent UCLA conference that attempted to figure out how to increase the number of women in tech.

Tens of millions of Americans will suffer at some point in their lifetime from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Functional MRI might help doctors predict who responds best to one of the most common treatments.

“Much of the psychological distress stemming from chronic life stress and trauma remains undetected and untreated,” said Gail Wyatt, a UCLA psychiatry professor.