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UCLA Chancellor Gene Block issued the following statement regarding University of California President Mark Yudof’s announcement today that his tenure would end Aug. 31.

In the second installment of a three-part series, three UCLA social scientists open pantries and refrigerators to reveal the convenience foods and bulk shopping habits of the dual-income, middle-class families.

Thomas B. Smith will head an NSF-funded research project investigating the effects of climate change on biodiversity in the rainforests of Cameroon and Gabon.

UC President Mark Yudof, who took office on June 16, 2008, announced today (Jan. 18) he is stepping down as the head of the UC system and returning to UC Berkeley to teach law. To read his statement, go here.    To read, his biography, go...

While the decision is my own, Yudof says in a statement, the moment comes with a mixture of emotions.

In conjunction with its exhibition, "Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews," UCLA’s Fowler Museum will be hosting a Pre-Purim Bash, open to the public, on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8-11 p.m. Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates...

The federal government's voluntary care-coordination program was created to reduce costs while offering high-quality service to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

With nearly 100,000 applicants seeking admission for 2013, UCLA remains the most applied-to university in the country, drawing exceptionally talented students from California and beyond.

Sensor module, as worn by amputee subject When most people walk, they do so in a symmetrical fashion: They take even steps and place equal pressure on each foot as it touches the ground, with the heel striking first, the arch second, the toe...

The University of California will expand its credit-bearing, online courses for undergraduate students in the coming years with the aim of making them a more significant part of UC's lower-division curriculum.   At a meeting of the UC Board of...

BHIP participant in a class last fall works out with a medicine ball.Death-by-10-meter sprints. Arm-aching push-ups followed by lunges, then laps. Heart-pounding stair-climbing at Drake Stadium in the heat of high noon.   Ah,...

Arguably the most collaborative space on campus, where disciplines like computer science, urban planning, Near Eastern languages and cultures and interactive mapping collide into creative scholarship.

UCLA's FAME center, a multi-university partnership, aims to develop unique nanomaterials and structures that will help make semiconductors far more powerful and energy-efficient.

The suspect in the Jan. 7 incident is described as a light-skinned Caucasian male with short dark hair, approximately 30 to 35 years old, 5'10" to 6 feet tall, with a thin build.

The team's multidisciplinary research efforts will reshape and improve how images and large data sets are collected and analyzed in science, engineering, medicine and other fields.

How many of us have read a story about someone performing a selfless and generous act and been inspired to pay it forward? Tony Tolbert, associate director of admissions and outreach and an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, actually did – in a big way.

Whether it’s using Twitter to study and monitor civil unrest in the Middle East, applying image-archiving to fields as diverse as radiology and media studies, or crowdsourcing information from people all over the globe to better understand...

Beverly Macy, CEO of Gravity Summit, Inc., and co-author of "The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing" (McGraw-Hill, 2011), teaches executive global marketing and branding and social media marketing for UCLA Extension. This op-ed originally...

Higher education institutions trying to extend their reach internationally have launched study abroad programs and started satellite campuses in foreign lands. But have these trends now made higher education inaccessible and unaffordable for a broad...

If you thought the issue of segregation in schools was an urban problem that was ultimately solved with the past victories of the civil rights movement, Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, is asking you to take another...

Researchers found that with a small dose of extra training, physicians were more thorough and informative in discussing medicines and their effects with patients.

Find out more about UCLA’s plans to go tobacco-free by attending Staff Assembly’s Learn at Lunch on Thursday, when smokers can hear from addiction experts about the most effective ways to quit.

Compared to kids who are not overweight, obese children are at nearly twice the risk of having a slew of medical, mental and developmental difficulties, UCLA researchers found.

Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur fellow Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at UCLA, will appear at Royce Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. to discuss his new book. "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional...

  A three-part documentary series produced by UCTV explores the heartache for those suffering from and coping with Alzheimer's disease and the hope offered by UCLA researchers leading the charge to slow its progress...