Seniors' increasing diversity affects their ability to provide for younger family members, as well as their need to rely on the family safety net themselves.
Navy veteran Daniel Moynihan is a first-year M.B.A. student at UCLA Anderson School of Management and says that the school is helping him translate the skills he developed and used during his military career to potential civilian employers. Photos...
UCLA TFT grad student Rocco Pucillo, center, flanked by film producer John Goldwyn, left, and his father, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., president of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation.
Monday was a good night for UCLA Theater, Film and Television's Rocco...
UCLA researchers created a multisensory virtual world for rats that allowed them to study for the first time how navigation and the expectation of a reward are connected.
Six months after UCLA's tobacco-free policy went into effect, many smokers have quit or cut back, and surveys of cigarette butts on campus show a steep reduction. New measures aim to reach out to tobacco-users who continue to ignore the policy by encouraging deans and supervisors to get involved.
Beginning Friday, Nov. 1, scholarly articles authored by faculty members at UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Francisco and appearing in scholarly publications are now being made widely available at no cost to the public. All faculty who are members of the...
The online resource features nearly 2,000 digitized photographs, documents, maps, pamphlets and other archival resources and allows researchers to share their original work.
Men, put away your razors! During "Movember," a month-long, international event, you are encouraged to grow a moustache to raise awareness and research funds for men's health issues such as prostate and testicular cancer and high cholesterol....
UCLA adjunct professor of history Jon Christensen, the editor of Boom: A Journal of California, hopes that this special issue of the journal serves as an intelligent guide to the celebrations and observances marking this week's 100th anniversary of the aqueduct.
Mark Gold is associate director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Cara Horowitz is executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. This op-ed originally appeared in the...
The gift from Patrick Soon-Shiong, executive director of UCLA's Wireless Health Institute, and his wife, Michele, will support cross-campus programs focused on global health.
Timothy Spangler, who teaches at UCLA School of Law, is an expert on financial regulation in the United States and Europe and corporate law. He advises on the structuring and operation of a wide variety of investment funds, including...
Alberto Alquicira, manager of the computer instruction lab in social sciences computing, won the First annual Staff Assembly Halloween costume contest with 160 "likes" on Staff Assembly's Facebook page, where you can view entries from all over...
The drug, called MK-3475, which had already shown effectiveness in treating melanoma, shrank tumors in nearly a fourth of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
UCLA’s award-winning Mariachi de UCLAtlán will perform a free concert on Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Fowler Museum. The performance will include music from diverse Mexican communities and will highlight the special musical traditions of Día de...
Josie Bruin is considering her retirement options. If she claims her Social Security benefits when she turns 62, she will receive $1,339 every month for the rest of her life. But waiting until she’s 66 raises this to $1,793 a month; waiting till 70,...
Janet Napolitano announced three initiatives aimed at supporting undocumented students, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students across the 10-campus university.
Proclaiming that the University of California teaches for California and researches for the world, UC President Janet Napolitano Wednesday announced three initiatives aimed at supporting undocumented students, postdoctoral fellows and graduate...
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has announced it will work with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program known as SUPRASTUDIO.
Campus staff have a new opportunity for professional growth: ProShare Live, from UCLA’s Administrative Management Group (AMG), aims to help managers and aspiring managers expand their network of campus colleagues for mutual guidance and support....
The UCLA companies trace their roots to groundbreaking, federally funded university research conducted by engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan and physics professor Seth Putterman.
Be amazed and inspired by the Ninth Annual UCLA Retirees' Association Arts and Crafts Exhibit on Thursday, Nov. 14, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The show will be held at the UCLA Faculty Center's California Room and is co-sponsored by the UCLA...