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With nearly 23 million people across the African continent living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts across the globe are working feverishly to stem the epidemic. Among them is UCLA’s Pamina M. Gorbach, a behavioral epidemiologist whose...

The endowment comes from the estate of late UC regent Frank Clark and his wife, Dorothy, benefactors who helped create leading-edge UCLA urology centers.

UCLA took the No. 6 spot among the nation's 100 best-value colleges in Kiplinger's annual survey, which looks at academic quality, cost and financial aid.

Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA and author of "The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism." Her op-ed appeared originally today in the Los Angeles Times.   On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate...

Zombies, even more than handsome vampires, are ubiquitous in today’s pop culture, from hit TV shows to video games. But did you that the zombi actually comes to us from the Vodou culture of Haiti? Join the Fowler Museum at...

Douglas Kellner is the George F. Kneller Professor of the Philosophy of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. This op-ed was originally posted Dec. 20 in the Huffington Post.   Will the brutal...

Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is a former adviser on Education, Peace, and Justice to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and is co-author of Cultures...

Bruins Women's Gymnastics vaults into its new season this Sunday, Jan. 6, against Southern Utah in the annual John Wooden Challenge at the new Pauley Pavilion. The six-time NCAA champions and returning 2012 Pac-12 champs are...

UCLA crime prevention officer Erik Rakowski and his colleagues with the 40-member Police Officers Association (POA) decided this year to forego door prizes for their annual holiday party as "something we didn't really need," he...

Faculty in the economics and mathematics departments at UCLA celebrated Monday the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics to their longtime colleague, Lloyd Shapley.

Lloyd S. Shapley, a professor emeritus of economics and mathematics at UCLA, has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He shares the award with Harvard University economist Alvin E. Roth.

A look at how the October 31 holiday evolved from a colorful but relatively minor-league American celebration to an iconic autumnal festival.

UCLA researchers test blood and saliva samples, compare bite marks and use claw swabs and traces of fur to track the family tree and the animals’ behavior.

Jewitt was awarded the prizes, each worth $1 million, for his role in the 1993 discovery of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

Hundreds of people celebrated the life and legacy of Winston Doby, who spent 40-plus years in university service.

A Korean art exhibit initially sparked student Grecia Pinto’s interest in Korean studies. For law student Noelia Berardi, it was a keen interest in international relations. And so the two women from Latin America, who admit they knew very...

When the enrollment of African American students at UCLA decreased to 100 students in 2006, Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, knew he had his work cut out for him.

Music industry executive and philanthropist Morris "Mo" Ostin has donated $10 million for a state-of-the-art campus music complex to be known as the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center.

Royce Hall audience of about 1,000 heard from MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams and prominent UCLA alumni who had served as Peace Corps volunteers.

Fans, friends, family members and former players made their way to UCLA today to pay their last respects to a man who seemed almost bigger than life — Coach John R. Wooden.

John Wooden, UCLA's legendary former basketball coach, has died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. His 100th birthday would have been Oct. 14.

In a step toward justice, commencement came for Japanese American former students who had been forced to leave UCLA and enter internment camps during World War II.

UCLA's Center for African American Studies will host an open house to welcome members of the campus and greater Los Angeles community to its new building and meet its new director, Darnell M. Hunt. The open house and reception will be Tuesday...