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Patricia Greenfield's analysis of some 1.5 million books published between 1800 and 2000 shows how human psychology has evolved in response to historical change.

You'll find one of Richard Artschwager's blps affixed to lifeguard headquarters on the beach in Santa Monica.   Now on view on buildings throughout Los Angeles: black lozenge-shaped marks.   In conjunction with the...

The five-year grant will support UCLA scientists' interdisciplinary efforts to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer.

In Memoriam: UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Charles Hopkins, the longest-serving employee at UCLA Film and Television Archive, died on July 27 at 69 from a number of health complications.

Patricia Turner is dean and vice provost for undergraduate education at UCLA. She teaches about African American culture and is the author of four books on the subject. This op-ed appeared Saturday, Aug. 03 in the Sacramento Bee.   Sunday is...

UCLA researchers have helped to uncover a biological link between schizophrenia and Fragile X syndrome, a disorder associated with intellectual impairment and autism.

An infant is born prematurely at 22 weeks, weighing only about one pound and with bleeding in the brain. He tentatively clings to life, but in light of the fact that there is minimal likelihood he will recover a level of functional mental...

David Shulman is a retired Wall Street executive who is now a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast. He is also affiliated with Baruch College. This op-ed appeared in US News and World Report on July 31, 2013.   After being...

UCLA researchers have found that a new treatment approach incorporating both cellular and gene therapies significantly reduced brain tumor size in a model system.

Beginning Saturday, Aug. 3, the northbound I-405 off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be closed until mid-December for construction of a longer and wider off-ramp.   The closure begins at 1 a.m. and will be in effect 24 hours a day. The new ramp...

It’s not what first lady Michele Obama had in mind with her Let’s Move! initiative, but that’s just what Americans did from 2008 to 2010 — at the height of what economists call the Great Recession.   A recent study by...

Today an article by the Center for Investigative Reporting called into question the travel expenses of some campus leaders. Although UCLA made every effort to convey its side of the story to the reporter, some important points were omitted from the article.

Only those fans who bought tickets to see the Spanish soccer team train with the L.A. Galaxy at Carson's StubHub will be admitted to the UCLA training session at 5 p.m. on Aug. 2.

As part of an effort to support the growth of Chinese education in U.S. schools, 115 teachers from China have been studying at UCLA to learn how to be effective Mandarin language teachers for American students.

With the Thirty Meter Telescope project in Hawaii, UCLA and the University of California have moved a step closer to peering deeper into the cosmos than ever before.

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.   “The technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in localized brain activity over time, can...

Chancellor Gene Block and more than 160 other university presidents and chancellors have urged President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to make it a national priority to increase federal spending on research and higher...

Block is among some 160 university leaders urging the president and Congress to make it a national priority to increase federal spending on research and higher education.

Gabriel Lobet, 14, a student at Culver City High School, uses an ophthalmoscope to examine the retinas of his mom, Elizabeth Calvin. He and other students from local middle and high schools examined their parents' brains Tuesday as part of a two-day...

A UCLA study shows what many middle-aged Californians privately suspect: They are the first to lose their jobs and health benefits when hard times hit.

Local elected officials recently joined professors from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and leaders of the Los Angeles Urban League and California Business Roundtable for a discussion about the unbalanced economic recovery being...

Amin Banani, founder of the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA, the western world’s first bachelor of arts program in Iranian studies, died July 28 in Santa Monica at 86.

The newly developed technique could help scientists diagnose genetic diseases earlier and more accurately.

Zocalo recently interviewed attorney David Codell, visiting Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law and Legal Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA,in the green room, where invited panelists answer fun, random questions just before they...

Like employers across the country, UC has been reviewing the legal, policy and operational implications of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) for the university and its...