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A team of scientists led by professor Stephanie Pincetl is beginning to measure the efficiency of homes and offices throughout Los Angeles.

Starting next fall non-English majors will for the first time be able to enroll in a creative writing course. It will be taught by professor and acclaimed novelist Mona Simpson, and newly hired head of creative writing, Fred D’Aguiar.

The study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law shows that state and local sales taxes increase by an estimated $52 million.

Recovery has at least as much to do with rewarding oneself as it does with depriving oneself, according to a new book by a UCLA expert in addiction treatment.

Landmark gift will support facility renovations, faculty and curriculum development, and a financial aid program for low- and middle-income families.

More than 350 UCLA community members gathered in Wilson Plaza today for UCLA’s eighth annual Veterans Day ceremony to honor current military service members and veterans.

The therapy shows great promise for extending the lives of people with an advanced form of the disease, and it does so without causing a secondary skin cancer, a side effect seen in some patients who took only one of the drugs.

UCLA-led research team suggests that aberrations in bone structure or strength could be behind this increased fracture risk.

Jean-Luc Margot described a straightforward method that can be used to distinguish planets from other bodies like dwarf planets and minor planets.

Urban planning professor Michael Storper chronicles a history of choices that created a prosperity gap between the Bay Area and Southern California.

Archaeologist Matthew Curtis was part of a team that recently discovered a skeleton that yielded the first complete ancient genome ever found in Africa.

The Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law will expand UCLA Law’s highly regarded programs through curricular innovations, research support, new programming and hands-on skills training.

A sold-out crowd at UCLA’s IDEAS campus got a visionary glimpse into the future of space exploration Friday at the first of a series of events hosted by FuturizeX, a campuswide initiative being launched by UCLA and XPRIZE.

Campus officials ask that drivers avoid the area as much as possible. Access to Parking Structure 9 will be limited on Monday.

Min Zhou, professor or sociology and Asian-American studies, writes that the success of some Asian-Americans has led to harmful stereotypes.

All are invited to attend Nov. 10 to hear remarks by two distinguished military servicemen and Chancellor Block that will be part of the UCLA’s Veterans Day ceremony.

Bike lanes on and off campus, repair stations, incentive programs and other creative ways of supporting and encouraging biking at UCLA.

Nanoparticle system delivers the antibiotic moxifloxacin directly to infected cells, greatly improving treatment of pneumonic tularemia.

Eating local is good. All corporations are bad. Population growth is the problem. Peter Kareiva, director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, implores people to question assertions like these.

For the last 18 years, UCLA’s Lisa Snyder has been bringing to life the bygone glory of a true architectural, social and cultural wonder — the Chicago World’s Fair.

The $2.3 million award will support work to develop methods for recording the activity of intact neural networks in living animals.

English professor Eric Jager shares lessons learned from his experiences pitching his work to the trade market. Hint: get a good literary agent.

Guests can launch a rocket, take a peek at planets outside our solar system, make a cloud in a bottle and get up close and personal with dinosaur fossils and meteorites.

Dr. Thomas Klitzner, a UCLA professor of pediatric cardiology, said the findings could help identify high-risk patients so doctors can provide a higher level of support.

More than 3,700 parents and other family members joined their students for taste of UCLA campus life, Oct. 30-Nov. 1.