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In 1994, UCLA fundraisers couldn’t understand why more women didn’t give to the university. Turns out, all they had to do was ask.

The Herb Alpert School of Music’s global perspective and industry savvy have placed it solidly among the nation’s top music programs.

Jonathan Fielding is an acclaimed UCLA professor and the top public health official for the County of Los Angeles.

From “Love & Basketball” to “The Secret Life of Bees,” director Gina Prince-Bythewood ’91 specializes in personal stories she’s passionate to share.

The campus is one of six U.S. institutions chosen by the NIH to join the agency's efforts to tackle the most difficult-to-solve medical cases and develop ways to diagnose rare genetic disorders.

From the beginning, the people of Los Angeles have lent their support to UCLA and rallied to its needs.

Professor Richard Roll, Distinguished Professor of Finance and the Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Ph.D. Students.

Amjad Ezzour, a student affairs officer in the Fully Employed MBA Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Abraham Ackerman Staff Excellence Award.

Law professor Adam Winkler says that minority groups could be at risk of losing legal protections after the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, presented a plenary lecture titled, “Global Citizenship Education: Hyper Globalist, Skeptic and Transformationist Agendas,” at the 2014 conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education

Three films by photographic and video artist Judy Fiskin will screen at the Billy Wilder Theater on Tuesday, July 1, 7:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Dr. Gary Small received the Arthur Cherkin Award for excellence in medical care, aging research and training doctors in geriatrics.

Longtime Bruins Robert Naples, Gay Macdonald and David Miller have a combined total of 62 years filling important roles in the evolution of our campus.

Aydogan Ozcan and Tracy Johnson have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors in recognition of their breakthrough research and innovative approaches to undergraduate education.

UCLA students who have been taking classes in American Sign Language have created videos of themselves signing information on the Holocaust to give deaf visitors to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance a richer experience as they tour the exhibits.

A working group that includes UCLA's Susan D. Cochran says the removal of these disorders from the organization's classification system will make getting health care easier for gay individuals.

Heather Briston has been appointed university archivist in the UCLA Library. UCLA’s University Archives has systematically documented campus history, decision-making processes and cultural history since 1948.

UCLA architecture and urban design students helped create a fully functional microhouse built using 3-D printing technology.

UCLA linguist Pamela Munro started a Facebook page to revive and promote the Tongva language, once spoken by Southern California's Gabrielino-Tongva Indians. Through social media, their descendants are now learning words, phrases and songs in Tongva.

Michael Intriligator, a professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA who played an influential role in the establishment of the School of Public Affairs, died on June 23 after a three-year battle with melanoma. 

The Hammer's biennial showcase of emerging Los Angeles artists has forced the museum to temporarily shelve its collection of European masters for the first time ever.

Among the group's other recommendations: household water meters that measure indoor and outdoor water use separately, and stronger incentives for drought-resistant landscaping.

Economists Lee Ohanian of UCLA and Nobel laureate Edward Prescott of Arizona State University maintain that an important factor contributing to declining productivity growth is the large decline in the creation of new businesses.

Brian Taylor, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies as well as a professor of urban planning, talks about getting stuck in traffic and the day he received three parking tickets in Zocalo's green room.

The Fowler is home to more than 20,000 textiles that trace the history of cloth over two millennia and across five continents.