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A UCLA School of Nursing study found that young adults believe that hookah smoking is not harmful to their health, despite warnings from the CDC that it's just as dangerous as cigarettes.

Kligman is a renowned expert on Jewish music, from sacred liturgical traditions to contemporary popular music. He joined the UCLA faculty July 1.

Marking Ramadan as a "new American tradition" not only overlooks the holy month observed by enslaved Muslims many years ago, but also perpetuates their erasure from Muslim American history.

Raquel Ulma's accomplishments are just what was envisioned when UCLA School of Dentistry started its special outreach program for underrepresented and disadvantaged students.

It's been 30 years this month since UCLA was transformed into an international Olympic Village, when residence halls housed over 4,000 people, Bruin Walk bustled with activity, and over 160,000 spectators roared at Pauley Pavilion.

The mood on campus changes over the summer. It's hard to put it into words, so let's try it with photos.

In Q&A with the Los Angeles Times, Shoup says much should be changed about how the city provides parking.

With millions in the West now utilizing traditional Chinese medicine, the need for accurate medical translations is more crucial than ever, the authors of a new UCLA paper say.

Two people whose lives intersected at times over the last couple of decades discovered only a few months ago that they are actually brother and sister in time for life-saving surgery. 

Janet Napolitano stops at UCLA to share news of a major initiative intended to marshal resources across the UC system to address global food needs.

The campus is one of six U.S. institutions chosen by the NIH to join the agency's efforts to tackle the most difficult-to-solve medical cases and develop ways to diagnose rare genetic disorders.

Law professor Adam Winkler says that minority groups could be at risk of losing legal protections after the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

Longtime Bruins Robert Naples, Gay Macdonald and David Miller have a combined total of 62 years filling important roles in the evolution of our campus.

Aydogan Ozcan and Tracy Johnson have been named Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors in recognition of their breakthrough research and innovative approaches to undergraduate education.

UCLA students who have been taking classes in American Sign Language have created videos of themselves signing information on the Holocaust to give deaf visitors to the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance a richer experience as they tour the exhibits.

A working group that includes UCLA's Susan D. Cochran says the removal of these disorders from the organization's classification system will make getting health care easier for gay individuals.

UCLA architecture and urban design students helped create a fully functional microhouse built using 3-D printing technology.

UCLA linguist Pamela Munro started a Facebook page to revive and promote the Tongva language, once spoken by Southern California's Gabrielino-Tongva Indians. Through social media, their descendants are now learning words, phrases and songs in Tongva.

Michael Intriligator, a professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA who played an influential role in the establishment of the School of Public Affairs, died on June 23 after a three-year battle with melanoma. 

The Hammer's biennial showcase of emerging Los Angeles artists has forced the museum to temporarily shelve its collection of European masters for the first time ever.

Among the group's other recommendations: household water meters that measure indoor and outdoor water use separately, and stronger incentives for drought-resistant landscaping.

Economists Lee Ohanian of UCLA and Nobel laureate Edward Prescott of Arizona State University maintain that an important factor contributing to declining productivity growth is the large decline in the creation of new businesses.

Brian Taylor, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies as well as a professor of urban planning, talks about getting stuck in traffic and the day he received three parking tickets in Zocalo's green room.

The Fowler is home to more than 20,000 textiles that trace the history of cloth over two millennia and across five continents.

Stan Paul, undergraduate advisor for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has commuted by vanpool from Riverside County since 2001. He takes photos along the way.