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UCLA analysis of movies and TV shows in 2012 and 2013 reveals that race and gender representation in Hollywood is out of step with the rest of America, its authors say.

Nurit Katz, UCLA’s inaugural sustainability officer, took the post of new executive officer of UCLA Facilities Management on Feb. 1.

Melnitz Movies, a program of the UCLA Graduate Student Association, presents a free preview of 'The Iron Ministry,' a new documentary film by director J.P. Sniadecki, on Friday, Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. at the James Bridges Theater.

Most of the laws of nature treat particles and antiparticles equally, but stars and planets are made of particles, or matter, and not antiparticles, or antimatter. That asymmetry puzzled scientists for many years.

Screening travelers for fever on arrival has been criticized as ineffective, but the scientists found it can catch cases that screeners miss at departure.

Contributions to the UC Retirement Plan will not increase in July, as they have in the past few years. Because of reforms recommended by the Post-Employment Benefits Task Force and approved by the regents in 2010, employer and employee contributions now cover the annual cost of the plan.

UCLA bioengineers have developed a revolutionary approach that brings together traditional drugs and nanotechnology-enhanced medications to create safer and more effective treatments.

Donna Coyne, associate director of admissions at UC Santa Barbara, reflects on her two-year term, ending July 1, as staff advisor to the UC Regents.

The UCLA study offers a new approach for treating depression in older adults that could get them out of depression much faster than the standard antidepressants.

The book 'Immigration Outside the Law,' by UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura, has won the Association of American Publishers 2015 Professional and Scholarly Excellence Award in the Law and Legal Studies category.

Smadar Naoz, assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been selected to receive a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Only 36 percent of commuters drive alone, according to UCLA’s annual State of the Commute report.

A professor in the UCLA Anderson School writes that the ubiquitous and dreaded review discourages honesty and impedes personal improvement.

Two engineering graduates are the first employees in a new Mountain View startup that will use their innovation in the design of an important semiconductor chip.

UC chief investment officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher manages the UC pension, endowment, short-term and total-return investment pools.

Hilal Elver, the newly appointed United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, will participate in two UCLA School of Law events.

Dr. John Mazziotta will become vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, effective March 1, and Dr. David Feinberg will step down as president of UCLA Health System and CEO of the UCLA Hospital System.

UCLA sociology professor Judith Seltzer has been appointed to the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations.

Paintings by Silke Otto-Knapp are being showcased in the exhibition 'Land Lies in Water' at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada through July 19.

While war rages in Syria, that country's people can still experience the culture and history of the region’s Mesopotamian roots through an exhibit made possible by a Kurdish nonprofit organization and UCLA archaeologist Giorgio Buccellati.

The scientists successfully blended different synthetic plastics to enable devices to absorb light from a larger part of the solar spectrum.

The UCLA Health System notified 179 patients on Feb. 18 that they may have been exposed last fall to the carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae bacteria during an endoscopic procedure.

Donation from philanthropist Elaine Krown Klein will support a distinguished faculty member as well as live performance, research, conferences and other schoolwide initiatives.

California could better coordinate transportation spending to support improved maintenance of existing roads and improved public access to walking, biking and transit infrastructure.

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris writes in an op-ed that design of California’s high-speed railway stations should incorporate the communities around the transit stops.