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Yoram Cohen, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named interim director of the Y and S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in the UCLA International Institute.

Policymakers, scholars and business leaders from Australia and the United States will explore the implications of the economic rise of the region at the event cohosted by the UCLA International Institute.

A paper published in JAMA Neurology by Dr. Brent Fogel, UCLA assistant professor of neurology, was cited as a “Best Advances of 2014” by the editorial advisory board of Neurology Today.

The discovery by scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center paves the way for the development of more effective patient-tailored therapies.

A lost recording of a 50-year-old speech delivered at UCLA by the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been unearthed in a storage room and put online.

Timothy Deming, UCLA professor of chemistry, biochemistry and bioengineering, has been appointed as an associate editor of the American Chemical Societ Journal, Biomacromolecules.

Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black, UCLA professors of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, have been awarded a three-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on the immune system’s response to pathogens.

Why do some people develop PTSD while others who suffered the same ordeal do not? A UCLA discovery may shed light on the answer.

The gift will provide scholarship support to students in UCLA Teacher Education Program and help recruit the best and brightest students to pursue advanced degrees in education.

Wesley Thorne has joined UCLA as director of the UCLA Career Center, one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive centers of its kind.

Heather Adams, who transferred to UCLA from Santa Monica College in 2012, is now a staffer who helps transfer students find the support they need to succeed at UCLA.

People with a deficiency of the iron-regulating hormone hepcidin are especially vulnerable to Vibrio vulnificus, but research shows a medical form of the hormone can cure the infection.

Author and investigative journalist James Bramford, best known for his writing about the National Security Agency (NSA), will give two talks at UCLA as part of Data Privacy Month.

Off-label prescriptions of medications and medical devices can be beneficial, but without rigorous study it is difficult to know what works and what doesn’t.

UCLA researchers found that although Prozac and Lexapro were thought to work the same way, the medications did not produce the same long-term changes in anxiety behavior.

The UCLA professor, known as one of the fathers of the Internet, was honored for his “seminal contributions to the theory and practical development of the Internet.”

Professor Alain Mabanckou writes that the recent police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner show that much work remains to create an America worthy of the vision of African American artists and leaders of generations ago.

Let go of stress and enhance your physical and psychological well-being with Bruin MindFit, a new course offered free of cost and exclusively for faculty and staff by UCLA Recreation.

The scientists resolved a dispute over whether a small population of black-headed squirrel monkeys, which are found only in an isolated part of Brazil, is a sub-species of another species or its own species.

UCLA School of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law and Southwestern Law School have been awarded a one-year grant to establish a pilot program to help new attorneys launch and develop viable law practices serving low- and modest-income clients.

Law professor Cheryl Harris will moderate a faculty discussion on race and social inequality Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in Royce Hall 314. The event is free and open to the public.

In a message to the campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Dr. A. Eugene Washington will leave the campus at the end of February.

Less than a third of parents reported that their child wore a hat or sunglasses or attempted to seek shade when exposed to the sun.

A team led by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute developed a new method for extracting and analyzing cancer cells circulating in patients’ blood.

A new UCLA-led study illuminates a vast network of little understood rivers and streams flowing on top of Greenland’s ice sheet.