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While on a yearlong sabbatical at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Luisa Iruela-Arispe received some happy news: She had been named the winner of the 2013 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, a $30,000 award...

                    Farming is flourishing in Los Angeles County, according to a new report by urban planning graduate students at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The first-ever...

Source: Los Angeles Sports Council Earlier this year city officials announced that Los Angeles would try to become the site for the 2024 Summer Olympics. But to win the right to host the city’s third Olympics, L.A. boosters must first...

As students listen in, engineering professor Eric Hoek, (center in plaid shirt) advise Fijian villagers on how water can be transported safely from a spring deep in the jungle. Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and...

Los Angeles Laker Jordan Farmar, a former Bruin basketball standout, stopped by UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Tuesday to visit sick kids and cancer patients. Farmar signed autographs, gave out gift bags and posed with patients, like Chico, 9,...

Teresa Barnett and her staff of three at UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research have their work cut out for them: Document the history of Los Angeles and its environs. Since its founding in 1959, the center has amassed oral histories...

Spend a day picking the brains of screenwriters and creative writers who now teach the art of writing. The UCLA Extension free-to-all Writers Faire will be held in the Young Hall courtyard at UCLA on August 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This festive day...

The grassy slopes of the Fowler’s UCLA Arts Council Amphitheater will be the place to be Sunday from 4-5 p.m. to see Noah and the MegaFauna, a nine-piece band that mixes indie folk with jazz and big band swing to create music...

Leaders of the Working Smarter initiative, which already has saved the University of California more than $289 million, took a big step forward recently when they and counterparts from California State University recently hosted a conference to...

UCLA is tied for first with 21 other campuses as one of the most sustainable universities in the country, after receiving a perfect score in the 2014 edition of the Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll. The list includes three other UCs.

With as many accolades and laurels that have been showered on legendary film producer-director Stanley Kramer during his lifetime, would one more tribute — this one to celebrate his 100th birthday posthumously — make much of a...

For UC Merced sophomore Luis Fernando Gonzalez Haro, spending just two weeks at UCLA last month "opened up my world and what I can do and be."   Raised in the small town of Gustine in California’s Central Valley, where his family moved from...

In Memoriam: UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Charles Hopkins, the longest-serving employee at UCLA Film and Television Archive, died on July 27 at 69 from a number of health complications.

An infant is born prematurely at 22 weeks, weighing only about one pound and with bleeding in the brain. He tentatively clings to life, but in light of the fact that there is minimal likelihood he will recover a level of functional mental...

Beginning Saturday, Aug. 3, the northbound I-405 off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be closed until mid-December for construction of a longer and wider off-ramp.   The closure begins at 1 a.m. and will be in effect 24 hours a day. The new ramp...

It’s not what first lady Michele Obama had in mind with her Let’s Move! initiative, but that’s just what Americans did from 2008 to 2010 — at the height of what economists call the Great Recession.   A recent study by...

Chancellor Gene Block and more than 160 other university presidents and chancellors have urged President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to make it a national priority to increase federal spending on research and higher...