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C. Cindy Fan on how Hong Kong’s love-hate relationship with China creates difficulties for the “one country, two systems” balance.

Souped-up antibiotics effectively attack persister cells that are responsible for making bacteria resistant to new drugs.

Chancellor Gene Block formally welcomed new freshmen and transfer students to UCLA Sunday at the Los Angeles Tennis Center stadium as the campus prepares to kick off the 2014-15 academic year.

UCLA faculty are invited to join University of California President Janet Napolitano and faculty colleagues from across the UC system for a one-hour online conversation on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2 p.m.

Volunteers worked at more than 40 schools, veterans centers, public parks, senior centers, community centers and homeless service providers.

Motivated by a drive ‘to do work that can save lives,’ UCLA's Mark Kaplan has become a leading expert on suicide, the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States.

Tyrone Howard of UCLA’s Black Male Institute says that a failure to intervene to help boys and men of color may have disastrous consequences for them and the country.

Two local businessmen donated $30K to the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center. The donation was raised in the 2014 Volkswagen City of Angels Fun Ride.

Campus returned to life as thousands of students began moving into the residence halls. Those living in the newly renovated Hitch Residential Suites were greeted with a host of new amenities.

Research by UCLA biochemists may lead to a new treatment — or even a cure — for a rare kidney disease that afflicts children, and may provide insights into treatments for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases.

The Burkle Global Impact Initiative, which was created at UCLA to educate the public about international and humanitarian affairs by working within the creative community, helped produce a video for the United Nations Climate Summit that took place Tuesday in New York.

UCLA education professor Robert Rhoads and three faculty members from Chinese universities recently took a close look at four universities in Beijing. Rhoads discusses their findings in this Q&A.

In his latest documentary, “Bitter Honey,” UCLA anthropologist Robert Lemelson tracks the abuses suffered by wives trapped in polygamous marriages.

For UCLA's sixth annual Volunteer Day on Sept. 29, 7,300 Bruins will blanket Los Angeles County helping out at schools, veterans' sites, senior centers, shelters, parks and more, before classes even begin.

Marketing effort highlights compelling stories of UCLA people and programs from downtown Los Angeles to Southeast Asia to the far reaches of the solar system.

SELFA Inc., a health care technology company cofounded and based on research by Chi On Chui, UCLA associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, won a $1.65 million grant from the NIH.

UCLA experts will engage with city leaders from around the world to create smarter cities.

Thomas Smith of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability says the next great extinction could be upon us, but humans can help threatened species survive.

This year Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, “I Never Had It Made,” is being read by thousands of incoming freshman and transfer students, faculty, staff and alumni as part of the six-year-old UCLA Common Book program.

‘Souped-up’ antibiotics could give doctors an advantage over bacteria that have develop immunity to medicines.

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Director Brian D. Taylor joins other experts at Zócalo Public Square on Sept. 29 in a discussion of L.A.'s traffic woes.

Lesley Leighton has been appointed director of the UCLA Chorale and UCLA Chamber Singers in the Department of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Myra and David Mezquita have been struggling to pay for nursing care for their daughter Vicky, who is being treated for the second time for recurring living cancer. An organization founded by Westside teenagers has come to their aid.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents "World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou," a large-scale immersive environment that combines the artist's sculpture, drawings and poetry with Fowler artworks and recorded sound.

UCLA Luskin researchers asked former foster youth and youth in the juvenile justice system to use photos to capture the difficulties of transitioning to independent adulthood.