Graduating seniors Ashley Yoon and Shannon Foley won the auditions, received some high-level coaching and rocked Pauley Pavilion with The Star-Spangled Banner.
Alumna Ann Meyers Drysdale's keynote address to 4,800 College of Letters and Science graduates and their families highlighted Friday's commencement activities. Includes video excerpts.
Adam Winkler is a professor at UCLA School of Law who specializes in American constitutional law. This op-ed was originally published June 12 in the New Republic.
Where should a transgender schoolgirl be allowed to pee? To some, this...
In order to make way for construction of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center, Parking Structure 6 will close July 1, according to UCLA Events and Transportation. On July 8, the Ackerman turnaround will close and remain...
Snowfall will drop by 30 to 40 percent in Los Angeles-area mountains by midcentury due to climate change, and things could get worse by 2100 if we don't rein in greenhouse gases, according to a UCLA study.
Samantha Anderson helps her cousin Natalie Morales (right) move out of Rieber Hall. Photos by Christelle Nahas.
Nineteen-year-old Natalie Morales learned an important lesson during her first year at UCLA — foresight. Remembering how "crazy"...
Adam Winkler, professor of law, is a constitutional law specialist and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America," which comes out in paperback this summer.
Kathleen Micham, Shola Richards to receive Chancellor's Excellence in Service Awards
Two outstanding staff members will be honored by UCLA Staff Assembly with the 2013-14 Chancellor's Excellence in Service Award, which recognizes staff members...
Commencement 2013 was filled with excitement, hugs and inspiration. You can relive it all with stories, photos and video about UCLA's 2013 graduates and commencement ceremonies. See this commencement news page.
Administering progesterone treatment has been like shooting in the dark, say researchers at UCLA. But their new study sheds some light on how, and for whom, the therapy may work.
Times have changed since UCLA's first doctoral hooding in 1938. This year's new doctorates range in age from 25 to 77, and one who was born the year UCLA awarded its first Ph.D.
Cameron (left) and Mitchell are a well-off gay couple raising an adopted daughter on the sitcom "Modern Family," but a new Williams Institute study shows that members of the LGB community are more likely to be poor.
As poverty rates for virtually...
Joseph Green is a young opera-singing phenom whose talents were discovered after he moved into Sproul Hall — at the age of 11.
Joe, who's now 14, is the son of art history professor Charlene Villaseñor...
John Villasenor is a professor of professor of electrical engineering and public policy at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. He writes about the intersection of technology, policy and the law. This column...
Cindy Cordova, assistant to the vice dean for faculty at the David Geffen School of Medicine, takes on the presidency of UCLA Staff Assembly next month.
New Staff Assembly Executive Board announced
The newly elected members of 2013-14 Staff Assembly Executive Board have been announced and will take office on July 1. Assuming the post of president is Cindy Cordova, who served as president-elect...
Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This column appeared in the Huffington Post on June 7, 2013.
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Working collaboratively with people from different cultures and countries comes naturally to Azeb Tadesse, deputy director of the African Studies Center at UCLA. As a child, she often visited her father at his job at Ethiopian Airlines at postings...
The hospital is part of a select group recognized for excellence in all 10 medical specialty areas reviewed in the magazine's new "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.
General Wesley Clark (ret.) is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed appeared originally in the Washington Post on June 6.
President Obama’s talks with Chinese President Xi...
Massage therapists were kneading away the stress of students studying at the Young Research Library Monday. The complimentary service was offered by FITWELL.
Dr. Brennan M.R. Spiegel is associate professor of medicine at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health, where he teaches decision analysis. Besides his medical degree from New York Medical College, he has a...