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Sixteen UCLA students have received fellowships for projects that focus on food, ranging from making documentaries to constructing new campus gardens.

Dr. Philip Levin has been appointed chief medical officer of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.

UC Living Well, the university’s wellness initiative, is here to help UC employees who want to lose weight, exercise more or just generally improve their health.

The Latino physician workforce per capita has declined by 22 percent since 1980, resulting in a shortage of doctors with the cultural familiarity necessary to serve a rapidly expanding population.

Marcus Anthony Hunter, assistant professor of sociology and African American studies in the UCLA College, will discuss his book, “Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America” on Thursday, Feb. 12 at the Bunche Center.

UCLA education professor Li Cai has won an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

From film history and analyzing diversity in front of and behind the camera to commenting on pop culture and studying labor issues, UCLA has experts on the creative and business sides of the entertainment industry.

Allyson Nadia Field writes about how 100 years ago the racist film inspired black filmmakers to respond and that the film still resonates because the country still grapples with achieving racial justice.

UCLA researchers Shu-Wei Huang, Christopher Holbrook and Wen Li have been selected to receive 2015 Air Force Young Investigator awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive concludes its Kenji Mizoguchi series with “The 47 Ronin” on Feb. 15 in the Billy Wilder Theater.

Barbara Romanowicz, internationally renowned UC Berkeley professor of geophysics, will present UCLA's 2015 Mautner Memorial Lecture, 'A Voyage Through the Earth’s Deep Interior.'

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television welcomes a stellar group of international costume designers, among them this year’s Academy Award nominees, to discuss their craft.

More than 800 people gathered in Royce Hall to applaud the courage of 16 civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — who challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.

A Google Glass app paired with a handheld device will allow users to quickly analyze the health of living plants without damaging them.

Two of the nation’s top eye institutes have united to improve patients’ access to leading vision specialists.

Voters in Los Angeles City Council District 14 will be able to attend two candidate forums sponsored by UCLA Government and Community Relations to hear from those running for a seat on the city council.

Richard C. Hawkins, 92, a professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television who directed full-length ethnographic films, including two on the care of pre-school children in China and the Nuer tribe in Kenya, died Jan. 29 in Los Angeles.

Researchers developed a thermal imaging technique that can “see” how the temperature changes from point to point inside the smallest electronic circuits.

The University of California will require incoming students to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.

UCLA mascot Joe Bruin was invited to take part in a friendly dance-off with USC's Tommy Trojan on last night's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC. We know who won.

Jayathi Y. Murthy, chair and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, has been appointed dean of UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced today.

Girls of color are disproportionately impacted by school discipline policies and excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report co-authored by two UCLA law professors.

Anthem, Inc. disclosed on Feb. 4 that it was the target of a very sophisticated cyber attack that potentially compromised information about UC students, retirees, employees and their dependents.

A student told UCLA police she was sexually assaulted over the weekend in the North Village neighborhood of Westwood.

A new book by UCLA urban historian Eric Avila gives voice to the opponents of highway construction in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and, in particular, in communities of color.