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Locks of Love returns to campus Thursday, Feb. 7, offering free haircuts to people willing to donate 10 inches or more.

Peter Sellars, renowned theater, opera and festival director as well as a UCLA professor of world arts and cultures, will give a talk, "The Arts Imagine the Next America," Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the EDA Room of the Broad Art...

Starting this spring, UCLA will add sand volleyball as a women’s intercollegiate sport, bringing the total number of intercollegiate athletic teams to 25 — 15 for women and 10 for men.   The team will be coached by UCLA Athletics...

The 134 students taking Ken Kragen’s inaugural Music Industry 106 class, "Stardom Strategies for Musicians," are primed to expect the unexpected. It started on the first day of class, taught by the longtime music industry...

Dying cells and cancer cells exhibited a previously unknown communication method, influencing the function of healthy cells that were in an isolated, enclosed chamber.

For fourth-year anthropology major Linnet Luna, readings and lectures in her "Gender and Language in Society" class on the social context of communication came to life at the Bresee Foundation, a nonprofit community organization a world apart from campus.

Jan Kempenaers' photos highlight the now-dilapidated, futuristic-looking monuments that once heralded a socialist future free of ethnic divisions and strife.

Since the Jan. 8 launch of the University of California’s Campus Climate Study, nearly 17 percent of UCLA's students, faculty and staff have completed the systemwide survey, a tool that's being used to learn about the campus community's...

Dr. Earl Freymiller is the inaugural holder of the chair, which honors longtime supporters Bob and Marion Wilson for their generosity to the dental school.

Joshua Bloom's "Black Against Empire" recasts the Panther Party, known primarily for its approach to black self-defense, as a pioneer in worldwide revolutionary politics.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is an associate professor of education at UCLA. Her op-ed appeared Jan. 30, 2013, in the Huffington Post.    A past president of Guatemala is being called to justice in Guatemala, for atrocities committed by...

A gene thought to express the so-called heat shock protein αB-Crystallin in all cells that experience stress instead expresses it only in certain cell types, researchers say.

Maurice Jones-Drew, a running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars, left UCLA after his junior year for the NFL draft. Now he is back on campus to complete more classes toward his degree.

Researchers found that the more food and soda ads there are in a given neighborhood, the higher the likelihood that the area's residents are overweight.

The Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast survey polled industry professionals on how they think the market will change over the coming three years.

UCLA’s Royce Hall was the venue for Monday night’s debate between Los Angeles’ top five mayoral candidates (from left to right): City Councilmember Jan Perry, attorney and radio talk-show host Kevin James, City Councilmember Eric...

Patrick Adler, an urban planning graduate student, found his study featured on the NFL Network.With Super Bowl Sunday just days away and the media running football stories of all stripes, an intriguing piece of research by UCLA graduate...

The gift from Hufschmid, co-founder of GlobeOp Financial Services, will provide ongoing support for the research and teaching efforts of a distinguished UCLA Anderson faculty member.

For at-risk adults who are 50 or older, the deeper their suspicion of the government, the less likely they are to get tested, a UCLA study has found.

Abigail Saguy, an associate professor and vice chair of sociology at UCLA, is the author of “What’s Wrong With Fat?” Her op-ed appeared Jan. 25, 2013, in the Washington Post.   Obesity is widely regarded as one of the greatest...

Five candidates vying to be the next mayor of Los Angeles squared off Monday night during a public forum held at Royce Hall. The forum was televised live on NBC4 in Los Angeles and live-streamed on the web.

Joe, Josie and their fellow Bruins turned out Monday on Collins Court for the fair launching UCLA's Healthy Campus Initiative. Above, the crowd joins in a free hula-hooping demo, where an instructor shared ways to use the toy in a fitness routine.

The latest film series being hosted by the UCLA Film and Television Archive sheds light on a revolution that shook the foundations of the moviemaking industry and changed it forever:  how movie studios made the transition from silent film to...

UCLA professor Martin Monti and colleagues in Israel found encouraging, but subtle, signs of consciousness in Sharon, who has been in a vegetative state for seven years.

As part of the Human Brain Project, UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging will help aggregrate the world's data on the brain and reconstruct it in computer-based models.