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Campus officials estimate that approximately 2,500 UCLA students will qualify for $3 million in new assistance from California’s Middle Class Scholarship, approved by the legislature earlier this year.

Dr. George Bartzokis, a UCLA neuroscientist who originated the theory that the degeneration of the brain’s myelin contributed to many developmental and degenerative diseases, died on August 22.

Buffets of highly processed foods like sugar and flour are as tempting to rats as they are to humans and eating lots of this food weakens cues to stop eating when full.

Researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing have found that people suffering from sleep apnea have weaker brain blood flow that can lead to brain damage.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block welcomed approximately 900 people to Royce Hall Tuesday night for the Los Angeles premiere of “Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football.”

The history of predictions that copying would kill the fashion industry ignore the fact that trends in how we dress wouldn't exist without imitation.

The publication also included UCLA among universities that provide exceptional opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research and other creative projects.

UCLA police are investigating the report of a rape involving two students last week.

As the UCLA Community School nears its fifth anniversary, the college going rate for students in the area has increased dramatically. Ninety-five percent of last year's graduating seniors plan to go to college this fall.

A Q&A with Allison Carruth, associate professor of English at UCLA, who is helping to lead a massive effort that launches this Saturday to draw the public to the Los Angeles River.

Jacqueline and Oscar Stafsudd Jr. earned four UCLA degrees between them, and Oscar has been a faculty member for 47 years. The couple say their gift is "a way of expressing our gratitude."

High doses appear not to offer the same benefit, but the lower dosage may be a safe, low-cost way to help people with epilepsy, UCLA study suggests.

UCLA Anderson Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry is making the latest studies in the fields of finance and accounting more accessible and easier for the general public to understand, and he hopes that may start a trend.

Researchers identified a gene called AMPK that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when switched on in key organ systems. Activating the gene in fruit flies extended the animals’ lifespans by about 30 percent.

Francisco J. López-Flores grew up living in the shadows to keep his identity as a Mexican national hidden. But under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, he has a work permit, a Social Security card and a future.

Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named to Politico magazine's "Politico 50" list of "thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction."

Approval of Keytruda signals a paradigm shift in the way advanced melanoma is treated. The drug was tested on more than 600 patients in the U.S., Europe and Australia.

In UCLA's Surgical Science Laboratory, surgical residents refine their skills with dissection while the trend at other medical schools is leading away from this practice.

Education professor Teresa McCarty says that decades of research shows that immersion programs promote language acquisition, increased graduation rates and college entry, as well as parent involvement and cultural pride.

Learn how to safeguard the health of your family at Liver Diseases: Update 2014, a free educational seminar presented by UCLA's Pfleger Liver Institute, Prominent and respected specialists will offer patients, families and members of the community ...

In August, four researchers formed Team UCLA to take part in Charity Treks, a weeklong bike ride to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research at the UCLA AIDS Institute and the Emory Vaccine Research Center.

Next month, Professor Stephen Hubbell will become the first American in 40 years to receive a Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations.

“Whiteness as Property,” a seminal article by Cheryl Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law, will be the focus of a Critical Race Studies Symposium at UCLA Law, Oct. 2-4.

Dr. Denis Evseenko’s bold vision of translational science is already blazing new trails in research of regenerative stem cells and their relationship to cancer at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Broad Center for Stem Cell Research at UCLA.

UCLA will host universities and technology companies who are working to promote the development and adoption of Named Data Networking, an emerging Internet architecture.