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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 op-ed appeared March 1, 2013, in...

Those who reported the greatest support also had the smallest increases in a pregnancy-related stress hormone that has been associated with depression after birth.

By mid-century, even ordinary vessels will be able to navigate previously blocked parts of the Arctic Ocean, a potential boon for economic development but a threat to the environment.

It was a typical day for Dr. Jason Napolitano. He arrived at 7 a.m. at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and checked the overnight results of his patients' X-rays, blood work and other lab tests. He reviewed their vital signs, medications and...

To help celebrate the 75th anniversary of March Madness, UCLA unveiled 11 pieces of original art — each one representing one of its NCAA men’s basketball championships — at Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game...

A professor of world arts and cultures has set up a UCLA user-driven website where speakers of languages that could go extinct can contribute to a working dictionary, chat, post audio and video clips, play word games and create a language-learning workbook.

Former secretary of state and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice offered a spirited defense of democracy as the best and most stable system of government at the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture of the Burkle Center for International...

Construction work will shrink the northbound I-405 freeway near UCLA from Friday night until Monday at 5 a.m. All northbound lanes will close at night.

Danny Oppenheimer (left) is an associate professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mike Edwards, the founding contributor of Leftfielder.org, a blog on politics and media, and Oppenheimer have written a book, ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Beth Henley will be joined by actors Ed Harris, Diane Keaton, Amy Madigan and Belita Moreno on March 12 at 7:30 p.m. to read excerpts from her plays at the Hammer Museum's next program in the "Some...

Long thought to be just genetic "garbage," mutant viruses can tag along with their normal cousins and, in some cases, increase disease transmission by up to 10 percent.

Rice, the former secretary of state and national security adviser to President George W. Bush, addressed a crowd of hundreds Wednesday evening at UCLA’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.

In findings that have implications for L.A.'s recent TB outbreak, researchers show that certain bacteria pretend to be viruses -- a tactic that allows them to hide out inside our cells.

Providers need to make sure patients with limited English proficiency have access to interpreters and translated materials to assure high-quality care, a UCLA report says.

To keep endangered languages spoken by indigenous people alive and vibrant, a professor of world arts and cultures has set up a UCLA user-driven website where speakers of languages that could go extinct can contribute to a working dictionary, chat,...

UCLA researchers and colleagues have discovered that acne bacteria contain "bad" strains associated with pimples and "good" strains that may protect the skin.

UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection."Not only do they get chronic wounds more than the rest of us, but they take longer to heal in that...

Public health scholars and policymakers agree it is possible to get people to choose healthier options if they are engaged on several fronts, including enforcement by law. "Policy is not a dirty word," said Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Dr. Jonathan Fielding, a distinguished UCLA professor of health services and pediatrics.

Shirley Clarke was no ordinary documentary filmmaker. One of the first women to break the male lock on independent filmmaking in the ’50s and ’60s, Clarke grew up in New York, a child of wealthy parents who provided her with a...

The research by UCLA's David Cline and Xiaoping Ding represents a significant breakthrough and has implications for using fusion as a new energy source in the U.S.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced at a UCLA environmental symposium that the city will stop using coal-based energy by 2025.

Plan on attending the annual Alliance Suppliers and BruinBuy Trade Show, where more than 75 of UCLA's recommended suppliers will exhibit their latest products and technologies and answer questions about their goods and services. The trade show will...

As much as social scientists have learned about what drives people’s decision-making, there is still no silver bullet for changing people’s behavior — especially when it comes to making better health...

Barely a few decades ago, it was not uncommon for scholars to discuss diversity, race and ethnicity in binary terms: minorities and majorities, black and white. But the dramatic increase of ethic, racial, linguistic and religious diversity in...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made news at a UCLA panel Tuesday morning when he noted that L.A. will move off of coal-based energy by 2025.