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A new study by UCLA researchers found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain’s gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.

The Department of Education’s college rating system could hurt universities that enroll large numbers of students who plan to graduate from other institutions.

CaliParks.org aims to bring parks to everyone by making finding nearby parks and activities as easy as pulling out your smartphone.

Jillian Neuner raised $1,750 for UCLA research in honor of a friend battling Ewing's Sarcoma, one of the rarest forms of pediatric cancer.

Study found that paramedics can give intravenous medications to stroke patients within the “golden hour,” the window during which treatments are most likely to help patients avoid long-term neurological damage.

An article by ethnomusicology professor Cheryl Keyes makes the 'top 20' list, America Folklore Society Review.

UCLA was recently named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters by a national organization that recognized the university’s many programs, subsidies and benefits designed to encourage sustainable transportation.

Blake Allmendinger, a scholar of literature of the American West, has written a memoir about his mother, an eccentric recluse from whom he was estranged.

The Advisory Board Company's Consulting and Management Division announced on Tuesday that it has recognized the UCLA Health System with a national award for innovative initiatives that improved care quality and patient experience while lowering cost.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey will speak on the Criminal Justice Mental Health Project for the third annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture.

“The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism” co-authored by Robert E. Buswell Jr. of UCLA and Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan, has won the prestigious 2015 Dartmouth Medal for outstanding reference work of the American Library Association.

Research at UCLA played key role in developing the treatment, which could signal a new strategy for arresting tumor growth and extending the time before cancer worsens.

“Letter to Jimmy,” Alain Mabanckou’s much-lauded book, is a fitting tribute to the pivotal American essayist, activist and playwright, author of the novel, “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and a collection of essays, “Notes of a Native Son,” among other major works.

Jim and Carol Collins, who met while they were UCLA students in the 1940s, will have part of the training facility named in their honor.

Darwin’s writings focused much more on species that had changed over time than on those that hadn’t. So how do scientists explain a species living for so long without evolving?

A research paper by Jason Cong, a Chancellor’s Professor in UCLA’s Computer Science Department, was selected as the 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper in the 2015 Asia South-Pacific Design Conference.

UCLA is making available free software to the campus community that downloads in seconds and increases the chance that campus police or other local law enforcement agencies will be able to reunite owners with stolen electronic devices.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes that teacher training could learn from doctor training by adopting residency programs that combine university instruction and field-based learning.

Dr. Victor Marder, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in the field of hematology research, died Jan. 29 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

A rare event organized by the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center brought together a man who survived a horrific motorcycle crash with some of the 196 blood donors who helped save his life.

A team led by engineers from UCLA and Columbia University controlled light at tiny lengths around 500 nanometers — smaller than the light’s own wavelength — by using random crystal lattice structures.

Attorneys Lane Dilg and Ina Bryant have joined the UCLA Office of Legal Affairs as senior campus counsel.

UCLA engineering faculty members Yang Yang and Richard Kaner have been named 2015 fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Linda McDermott, night shift lead nurse in labor and delivery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, has spent nearly three decades assisting couples when their 'big day' occurs at night.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, will hold the inaugural Wasserman Endowed Deanship of Education and Information Studies.