Nation, World + Society

Students at predominantly Latino Roosevelt High School are reaching beyond their own neighborhood and culture to study the language, music and traditional theater of China through the Chinese Alive! program.   A...

Young Latinas who have Latino teachers and counselors as role models and participate in extracurricular activities in high school have a much better chance of educational success.

Parents who are poor and members of a minority group experienced more financial stress and more stress from major life events than parents who are either just poor or just part of a minority group.

Can music create a connection that years of politics and diplomacy have failed to build? Faculty and students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music think that music can build such a bridge.

UCLA has the second-largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.

As Congress and the Obama administration try to reach agreement on a spending plan for 2014, University of California leaders are urging that the repeal of sequestration be a top budget priority.

Seniors' increasing diversity affects their ability to provide for younger family members, as well as their need to rely on the family safety net themselves.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has announced it will work with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program known as SUPRASTUDIO.

The UCLA companies trace their roots to groundbreaking, federally funded university research conducted by engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan and physics professor Seth Putterman.

As the proportion of Californians with job-based insurance fell below 50 percent, public programs stepped in to pick up the slack, according to the report

With housing prices climbing dramatically this year, the Los Angeles region's expanding transit corridors may offer the best opportunity for the development of new workforce housing, according to a new UCLA Anderson School of Management report.

Now housed in the UCLA Department of English, the University of California Press magazine is produced by Jon Christensen with support from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

The five-year project spotlighted diversity, respect for student voices, and strong connections between K–12 and higher education as significant factors in boosting achievement.

Racial diversity does make a marked difference to television's bottom line, said UCLA's Darnell Hunt, director of the Bunche Center for African American Studies and author of the new study.

Researchers show that in at least one case, the system failed by approving a chemical called methyl iodide for use on strawberries.

The strategy offers an object lesson for other campus departments battered by the recession and retirements.

While the slowly recovering U.S. economy will not reach normal levels by historical standards, it will be noticeably better than in recent years, UCLA economists predict.

An Institute of Medicine committee chaired by UCLA's Patricia Ganz says urgent changes are needed to improve cancer care as baby boomers age and new therapies arise.

Most of what you think you know about the 2012 presidential race is wrong, suggests a forthcoming book by political scientists at UCLA and George Washington University. They argue in "The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election" that the race was influenced more by the economy than any other factor.

Public schools have shown great improvement in getting and keeping students engaged using a program devised by the directors of UCLA's Center for Mental Health in schools.

Environmental law report suggests policies that could help San Joaquin Valley gain from high-speed rail, but the region must plan now to reap the benefits.

UCLA expert on marijuana policy proposes that the U.S. attorney general allow state-licensed production and sales, and focus resources on cooperating with states to shut down illegal growing.

UCLA researchers found that each Part D patient, as well as the government, could save hundreds by substituting generic or therapeutic alternatives for brand-name drugs.

The biennial survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is the largest amd most comprehensive state health survey in the nation.

As part of an effort to support the growth of Chinese education in U.S. schools, 115 teachers from China have been studying at UCLA to learn how to be effective Mandarin language teachers for American students.