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UCLA Health has been providing all the staff, materials and supplies to run the Special Olympics Polyclinic since July 24 to offer free medical care to any athlete or delegate who becomes injured.

Two classics directed by Dorothy Arzner, “The Wild Party” (1929) and “Anybody’s Woman” (1930), will screen 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 31, at the Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum.

Glen MacDonald, UCLA’s John Muir Memorial Endowed Chair in Geography, and Laurence C. Smith, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography, have been elected to the Class of 2015 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union.

The UCLA Volunteer Center, which is coordinating Team UCLA’s efforts campuswide, estimates that nearly 1,000 Bruin students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters are lending their time and talents to make the games a rousing success.

Professor Christopher Russell of the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics testified before Congress on July 28 about his work with NASA’s Dawn Mission, which he leads.

Kareiva will conduct research into urban conservation, improving environmental communications and exploring the role of consumer choices in pushing businesses to go green.

Roshan Bastani, director of UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, and other experts discuss the growing gap between rich and poor Americans, not just in income, but in nutrition, longevity and healthy behaviors, at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July ...

UCLA faculty, staff and alumni get discounted tickets to six upcoming 'UCLA Nights with the Angels' games in August and September.

Kang Wang, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering, is received the 2015 Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding Research Award.

University of California President Janet Napolitano announced today that the minimum wage for its workers — both direct and service contract employees — will be raised to $15 an hour over the next three years. 

Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has been reelected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors for 2015-16.

A University of California initiative to reduce costs and improve quality across UC’s five academic medical centers has saved more than $70 million in its first year.

Attend a UCLA Staff Assembly presentation on being an effective caretaker of aging family members, 12-1 p.m., Wednesday, July 22, at the Fowler Museum's Lenart Auditorium.

Traffic throughout Westwood Village will be impacted from 2:15-3:15 p.m. on Thursday, July 23, when the Special Olympics World Games — which take place July 25-Aug. 2 — officially begin with a torch run along Westwood Boulevard.

Hal Hershfield, assistant professor of marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and two collaborators have been selected to receive a $200,000 research grant from the Imagination Institute.

Literary Death Match, a humor-centric competition between some of L.A.’s best writers, comes to the UCLA Hammer Museum 7:30- 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 21.

The astrophysicist is being honored by the UK academy for her 'acclaimed discoveries ... on the motions and nature of the stars orbiting the black hole in the centre of our Galaxy.'

Patrick Allard, UCLA assistant professor of society and genetics as well as environmental health sciences, has received a 2015 Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA education professor, has been appointed by UNESCO as the inaugural chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education.

The UCLA Hammer Museum presents artist Mark Bradford and Brandeis University professor Anita Hill in a discussion of feminism as a gateway to activism and social justice, 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 2, at the Billy Wilder Theater.

UCLA Hammer Museum presents Michael Mohan's 'Pink Grapefruit' and other films and videos on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 7:30 p..m. in the latest from the Flux Screening Series.

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games are ready to take center stage at UCLA.

Researchers at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Fielding School of Public Health are participating in a new study of children with autism spectrum disorders that could help physicians diagnose and track ASD and assess treatments.

Sally Frautschy, a professor of neurology at UCLA, has received a $300,000 grant to fund her work on brain inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.

How to get proper exercise while traveling: Guidance from a UCLA Health physical therapist.