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UCLA experts in geriatric medicine, elder law and other fields help prepare you for the daunting task of caring for an elderly family member, June 20.

Frank Chang, the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and chair of the department, has been selected to receive the 2014 John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers’ Council.

Robert Steinberg, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics, died on May 25. He was 92.

John Villasenor, professor of electrical engineering in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, provided expert testimony at a U.S. congressional hearing.

Getting into Neil Garg's course "was like ‘The Hunger Games,'" said one student. "I know people who waited two years to get in. People have celebratory dances when they learn they’re enrolled."

If you park in UCLA Parking Structure 4, 7  or 8, you may have noticed the elevator doors urging you to take the stairs, a clever message from UCLA Transportation.

Mentally ill mass murderers receive tons of media attention, but they're not the typical perpetrators of violent crimes, say researchers. The team recommends a new risk-based approach to reducing firearms fatalities.

These three graduating seniors from the UCLA College will take what they learned as undergraduates into lives of scholarship and service.

Daniela Cusack and her fellow scientists who have been working for two years on finding a strategy to reduce global warming have concluded that we cannot engineer our way out of climate change.

The CAPG Standards of Excellence survey measures how well-equipped health care systems are to deliver a better patient experience, better population health and better overall affordability.

With the world's attention focused on Brazil and its social problems, Gary Rhodes, a UCLA expert on global education, calls for using the World Cup games to build international understanding.

The current forecast picks up where March's left off, predicting "normal growth" in the 3 percent range through 2016. In California, the unemployment rate will continue to drop.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Luskin Senior Fellow and L.A. Times editor-at-large Jim Newton assess Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first year in office in the 'Thinking L.A.' UCLA/Zocalo Public Square event.

Anastassia Alexandrova, an assistant professor in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.

UCLA professor Mike Rose of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies discusses his book, 'The Mind at Work,' which was recently re-published as a 10th anniversary edition.

UCLA's Fowler Museum will screen 'Narco Cultura,' a documentary about folk saints and the drug war in Mexico and the U.S., on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m.

UCLA professor of economics Lee Ohanian looks at the evolution of sports teams as billionaire must-haves and how exorbitant sales prices impact fans.

UCLA professors Jody Heymann and Fernando Torres-Gil contributed to the book, “The Upside of Aging: How Long Life is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy, and Purpose.”

To celebrate the hard-won triumphs of student parents and their families, a special commencement ceremony and after-party, complete with face-painting, has become a campus tradition.

As the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demise approaches, UCLA political scientist Daniel Treisman evaluates how former Soviet bloc countries have fared in post-communism Eastern Europe.

Assistant professor Chandra Ford will lead a $1.5-million study by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Kaiser Permanente to examine factors preventing HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment among racial and ethnic minorities and people 50 and older.

Graduating seniors Sylvia Duzaryan and Andrew Ho will address the Class of 2014 during commencement ceremonies for the UCLA College on June 13.

UCLA surgeon Dr. David Chen and surgical resident Dr. Justin Wagner have made it their mission to teach hernia surgery around the world and are using Google Glass as a training tool to watch procedures and comment in real time.

Leobardo Estrada, an associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been elected 2014-15 vice chair/chair-elect of the UCLA Academic Senate.

Eight specialties were named among the best in the country according to the survey, which takes into account clinical data and the opinions of pediatricians nationwide.