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UCLA faculty experts advisory: Senate approves ban on anti-LGBT bias in workplace
The U.S. Senate has voted 64 to 32 in favor or legislation that would ban discimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity. UCLA has experts.
Teaching to change lives
When Alicia Escalante, a parent at Baldwin Park High School, was asked why she thought Jesús Gutiérrez, Jr., was named teacher of the year in Los Angeles County, she broke into a huge smile tinged with incredulity — as if someone...
Hammer draws crowds to arts, artists in once-vacant stores
The Hammer’s Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a museum-led initiative to show was Westwood Village could become.
'Freakish' asteroid discovered, resembles rotating lawn sprinkler
"It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid," said UCLA's David Jewitt. "Amazingly, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust."
New UCLA center to work with U.S. military on challenges of healing wounded warriors
The Ronald A. Katz Center for Collaborative Military Medicine at UCLA, established by a gift from Todd and Randy Katz in honor of their father, is the first center of its kind on the West Coast.
Statement on video by African-American student group
UCLA Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Janina Montero released this statement on Nov. 7.
UCLA health care staff help treat several thousand at free clinic
A team of more than 200 UCLA health professionals helped staff a free health care clinic that provided vital basic medical services to approximately 3,000 uninsured and underserved people at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
UCLA health care staff help treat thousands at free clinic
A team of more than 200 UCLA health professionals helped staff a free health care clinic last week that provided vital basic medical services to approximately 3,000 uninsured and underserved people in Los Angeles.
They were among the...
App helps you get your fitness fix fast
You’re headed to the Wooden Center for a workout, hoping the place isn’t packed like last time with lines of people waiting to use treadmills. If only you could find out in advance how busy the gym might be.
Now you can, with a...
Election loss in Virginia bodes poorly for NRA
Adam Winkler is a professor in the UCLA School of Law who specializes in American constiutional law. This op-ed originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Nov. 6.
Yesterday's gubernatorial election in Virginia was a remarkable...
Attendance at Parents' Weekend 2013 breaks record
Bruin families enjoy Homecoming at the Rose Bowl where the Bruins beat the University of Colorado Buffaloes.
A record-breaking 4,100 registered parents and students got a taste of the best that UCLA offers during Parents' Weekend 2013, held last...
Inequalities in aging and the implications for younger generations
Seniors' increasing diversity affects their ability to provide for younger family members, as well as their need to rely on the family safety net themselves.
From the front lines to the bottom line
Navy veteran Daniel Moynihan is a first-year M.B.A. student at UCLA Anderson School of Management and says that the school is helping him translate the skills he developed and used during his military career to potential civilian employers. Photos...
Film student wins first place in national screenwriting awards
UCLA TFT grad student Rocco Pucillo, center, flanked by film producer John Goldwyn, left, and his father, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., president of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation.
Monday was a good night for UCLA Theater, Film and Television's Rocco...
Anticipation and navigation: Do your legs know what your tongue is doing?
UCLA researchers created a multisensory virtual world for rats that allowed them to study for the first time how navigation and the expectation of a reward are connected.
New measures aim to boost tobacco-free policy
Six months after UCLA's tobacco-free policy went into effect, many smokers have quit or cut back, and surveys of cigarette butts on campus show a steep reduction. New measures aim to reach out to tobacco-users who continue to ignore the policy by encouraging deans and supervisors to get involved.
Q&A: Christopher Kelty on the Academic Senate's new open-access policy
Beginning Friday, Nov. 1, scholarly articles authored by faculty members at UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Francisco and appearing in scholarly publications are now being made widely available at no cost to the public. All faculty who are members of the...
'There it is -- take it': UCLA Library launches L.A. Aqueduct platform
The online resource features nearly 2,000 digitized photographs, documents, maps, pamphlets and other archival resources and allows researchers to share their original work.
Movember events promote men's health
Men, put away your razors! During "Movember," a month-long, international event, you are encouraged to grow a moustache to raise awareness and research funds for men's health issues such as prostate and testicular cancer and high cholesterol....
UCLA video: 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens Valley
UCLA adjunct professor of history Jon Christensen, the editor of Boom: A Journal of California, hopes that this special issue of the journal serves as an intelligent guide to the celebrations and observances marking this week's 100th anniversary of the aqueduct.