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The model, developed from six years of mathematical research and a decade of police crime data, has been so successful that the LAPD adopted it for use in 14 of its 21 divisions.

Researchers found that people envision an unknown “black”-named character in similar ways to an unknown “white”-named male convicted of assault.

UCLA is the world’s No. 8 overall and the No. 2 U.S. public institution in the 2016 U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings.

UCLA research had previously helped secure approval for Keytruda to treat advanced melanoma.

The advance could eventually lead to vastly improved technology for capturing solar energy.

UCLA neuroscientists report in a new study that a diet high in processed fructose interferes with the brain’s ability to heal.

New program improves the likelihood that close relatives of colorectal cancer survivors will get screened for the disease, UCLA research shows.

Los Angeles-area Korean Americans who heard presentations in their churches were more likely to get tested, according to researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The initiative will provide access to the latest therapeutic cancer clinical trials and state-of-the-art care for men and women who have served in the armed forces.

The aim of the study is to develop new magnetic resonance imaging technologies to assess the impact of environmental pollution.

UCLA Anderson Forecast’s third quarterly report of 2015 predicts a strong outlook for the next two years, with a slim chance of a recession and a slight change for a surge in growth.

Scholars will cut across traditional boundaries to study migration in a world increasingly defined by the global movement of people.

Christine Borgman studies how research information is retrieved, processed, curated and conveyed. So she's in the right place at the right time.

Finding may have implications for preventing stroke and diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease earlier.

Their technique makes it possible to infer the macroscopic properties of materials based on their structural arrangements of atoms, which could guide how engineers build components for aircraft and other machines.

A new UCLA program offers hope and potential answers for people who have undergone extensive medical testing but still don’t know what is causing their symptoms.

One of the three variations appears to be fundamentally a different condition than the other two, said Dr. Dale Bredesen, a UCLA professor of neurology.

Researchers will use a $600,000 donation from First Solar to create “genoscape” maps of migratory bird populations.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched the Suyama Project to gather and make available online evidence of resistance among Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II.

UCLA Byzantine art history and archaeology professor Sharon Gerstel has devoted much of the last year to studying how architectural changes in Byzantine churches enhanced the performance of religious music.

New UCLA-led research may produce a new way to predict health declines and, potentially, intervene to delay them.

The findings could lead to better early detection of drug-resistant tumor cells and new therapies to suppress resistance as soon as therapy begins.

Men under stress provide worse emotional support to their partners than women do, an international team of psychologists reports today.

The models predict that the area burned by Santa Ana fires will increase by 64 percent and the are burned by non-Santa Ana fires will increase by 77 percent.

Even if union workers are exempted from the city’s forthcoming minimum wage increase, study predicts, there would be minimal short-term impact on their salaries.