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Growing up in South Los Angeles, Jeremy Edwards was frequently on the move with his hard-working single mom. In June, he will become the first in his immediate family to earn a bachelor’s degree.

The campaign seeks to secure the institution's future as a center for higher education where innovative teaching, groundbreaking research and dedicated service advance the public good.

The Centennial Campaign for UCLA launches with campus festivities May 16-17. The $4.2 billion fundraising effort conclude with UCLA’s 100th anniversary in 2019.

Working alongside physicians and handling a slew of administrative tasks, the partners help doctors save time and give more direct attention to those they treat, a UCLA study shows.

Those patients with additional major medical conditions are more likely to die from something other than cancer, so radiation or surgery represent "a poor gamble," UCLA researchers say.

Banners celebrating The Centennial Campaign for UCLA have been mounted across campus. The major fundraising effort in advance of the university's 100th anniversary in 2019 launches on Friday.

UCLA Anderson finance professor Ivo Welch explains why university divestment plans don't make as much of a difference as students hope.

"It's like your car's airbag, which won’t be deployed unless you really need it," UCLA's Alexander Hoffman said of the specialized immune cells, which use a built-in feedback system to determine which threats are real and which aren't.

Chancellor Gene Block presented the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor to an individual for extraordinary achievement, to James (Jim) L. Easton May 8 at the Chancellor’s Residence.

UC researchers use their expertise to help California cope with one of the most severe droughts on record

Diabetes adds an extra $1.6 billion dollars every year to hospitalization costs in California, with hospital stays for patients with the disease costing nearly $2,200 more than stays for non-diabetic patients.

Enrolling highly qualified transfer students is an important priority, UC and UCLA leaders say. To streamline the transfer process and make it more transparent to community college students, UC President Janet Napolitano and a task force she appointed are laying out a plan to do just that.

Amy Rowat, an assistant professor in UCLA's Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, believes food can be a powerful way to communicate science to a broad audience.

The 7000 in Solidarity Campaign was one of two student groups selected to receive the University of California President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership.

A team led by UCLA researchers found that the brain's response to viewing sexual images is related to the number of sex partners a person has had in the previous year.

A UCLA research team has developed a new class of materials that could lead to more energy-efficient and "greener" electronic devices.

Opinion: How a terrible Supreme Court decision about player pianos created the cover song and laid a foundation for creativity.

Marking its 50th year, the UCLA School of Dentistry is celebrating its five-decade rise to becoming one of the leading research-intensive dental schools in the nation with a yearlong celebration that will start this weekend.

Dental student Ryan Brennan made it possible for 200-plus patients to get dental care. Urban planning student Connor Johnson has a similar passion to help people in poverty.

Evelyn Blumenberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, is a 'Champion of Change' for her research on the links between transportation access, employment and poverty.

Identifying enzyme catalysts that improve the speed and efficiency of the drug-production process can be a major boon. Figuring out exactly why a particular enzyme works so well, UCLA researchers say, is an altogether different quest.

Brian Lehigh, Tara Noorani and Michael Oshiro were recognized for projects serving impoverished veterans, the homeless and incarcerated youth.

In the late '70s, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett proved it's never too late to pursue one's dreams, leaving a successful career in the corporate world to study archaeology at UCLA. Now she's giving back.

A unique partnership between UCLA and the LAUSD, the pilot school, which serves a largely low-income immigrant community, has made impressive strides in engendering educational success and promoting a college-going culture.

They went to Capitol Hill when their project on epilepsy was selected to represent the best of undergraduate research in California.