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For their commitment to community service, graduating seniors Rina Kim and Amir Hakimi, and medical student and Ph.D. candidate Gianmarco Raddi were each given one of the most prestigious honors UCLA bestows upon students.

LaWana Richmond, a business analyst and postal center manager at UC San Diego, has been named staff advisor-designate to the UC Board of Regents for 2015-2017.

Featuring speeches by the executive vice president of Magic Johnson Enterprises, an ESPN host and three women who founded companies, the event held on campus spotlighted the importance of women as difference makers.

Material creates an instant scaffold that allows new tissue to latch on and grow within cavities formed between linked spheres of gel.

The finding could change the way organs are assessed and save thousands of dollars per transplant.

A collection of social media pictures posted by urban planners and acolytes of retiring urban planning professor Donald Shoup posing with a life-size cardboard cutout of the man who wrote the book on parking.

Richard Creese has spent 31 years teaching UCLA students to write. Now the author of eight unpublished novels is the embodiment of the lesson that persistence pays off.

The jazz legend mentored musicians, and in this spirit the virtuoso grad students study with modern masters like Herbie Hancock and Kenny Burrell, and in turn share their expertise with thousands of students in local schools.

Coherent diffractive imaging transforms the conventional view of microscopy by replacing the physical lens with a computational algorithm.

For the 2015–16 academic year, 20 Big Bang Theory scholars will be selected to receive financial assistance. Each year in perpetuity, five additional scholars will be chosen.

The researchers say that women with a high risk for breast cancer recurrence benefit by having chemotherapy as part of their treatment, but for those at low risk, chemo has no added value.

“The brain has a major system that seems predisposed to get us ready to be social in our spare moments,” says UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman.

The new vice chancellor, dean and CEO spoke about his new roles and how he wants to make UCLA’s medical enterprise a John Wooden-like dynasty of excellence in health science.

New research evaluates effectiveness of a health plan designed for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes.

Students, student veterans, faculty, staff and community members came together today to collect 90,000 U.S. flags that were placed at gravesites at Los Angeles National Cemetery on Memorial Day in honor of American military men and women.

Prime Time Games brings full-inclusion sports teams of students from disadvantaged schools and the developmentally disabled to campus for a day with UCLA student-athletes as coaches and mentors.

UCLA alumna Esmeralda Garcia, who began high school reading at a fifth-grade level, returned to her high school to address students at a rally attended by UC President Janet Napolitano.

UCLA’s annual United Way campaign, which helps provide housing, education and jobs for the less fortunate, runs May 26-June 5.

Carol Kruse, a UCLA scientist and recognized leader in immunological therapy for brain cancer, passed away on March 28 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 61.

Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, the LGBT center bolsters UCLA’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse campus community.

The research director at UCLA’s Center X writes about how teacher evaluations that include hours of observation and student feedback, among other criteria, foster trust between educators and those grading them.

In a message to the UCLA campus community, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. will be leaving UCLA and praised him for his leadership in advancing UCLA’s civic engagement.

A new University of California video, ‘Preparing for Retirement,’ guides faculty and staff through the process of retirement.

M.V. Lee Badgett of the Williams Institute writes that in the May 22 election, voters in historically Catholic Ireland, might legalize nationwide same-sex marriage before Americans.

Research by scientists at the Broad Stem Cell Research Center shows that the cells carrying parents’ genes to a child are unprotected during part of the prenatal stage of development.