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Gabriel Lobet, 14, a student at Culver City High School, uses an ophthalmoscope to examine the retinas of his mom, Elizabeth Calvin. He and other students from local middle and high schools examined their parents' brains Tuesday as part of a two-day...

Local elected officials recently joined professors from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and leaders of the Los Angeles Urban League and California Business Roundtable for a discussion about the unbalanced economic recovery being...

Amin Banani, founder of the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA, the western world’s first bachelor of arts program in Iranian studies, died July 28 in Santa Monica at 86.

Zocalo recently interviewed attorney David Codell, visiting Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law and Legal Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA,in the green room, where invited panelists answer fun, random questions just before they...

Like employers across the country, UC has been reviewing the legal, policy and operational implications of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) for the university and its...

Avis Ridley-Thomas (far left) and Wellford (Buzz) Wilms (center) with UCLA undergrads who took their class in "Restoring Civility: Understanding, Using and Resolving Conflict." After taking a training course on conflict mediation taught at UCLA...

In celebration of the exhibition "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," the Hammer Museum and KCRW–89.9 FM present free live music tonight at 7 p.m. curated by and featuring KCRW DJs with special guests. Enjoy sets by KCRW DJ Anne Litt...

   "Hollywood Bob" Goldberg explains in his online course how genetic engineering is carried out. His lectures, shot in a production studio and enlivened by archival images as well as animation, came about through a collaboration with...

"Cutie and the Boxer," which won the Best Director Award for Zachary Heinzerling at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is coming to UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater Aug. 11 as part of the Sundance Institute’s inaugural NEXT WEEKEND....

She was a 93-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where the air was tainted with the smell of death. In 1945, she managed to escape from the Nazis into a forest when camp guards led her and other prisoners on a final death...

Students in Simul8 design and maintain apps for UCLA Library. The team functions like a start-up and provides students the opportunity to apply their computer coding knowledge in real-world settings. When Kevin Rundblad was hired in September...

Reggie Love (at right) finds his shot blocked by President Barack Obama on a basketball court at St. Bartholomew Church in New York City on Sept. 23, 2009. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. What was it like to spend...

Shown above are some of the stem cells derived by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. To see more, click here.  Stem cells are the body’s “master” cells....

The University of California Board of Regents today appointed Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a two-term governor of Arizona, as the 20th president of the University of California.   Napolitano, the...

Bruce Varner, chair of the UC Board of Regents, issued this letter regarding the appointment of Janet Napolitano as president of the University of California:    Dear UC Colleagues,   As chairman of the UC Board of Regents, I am...

For seven days this summer, high school students from around the world converged on UCLA to become diplomats at an academic simulation of the United Nations.   High school students from around the world gathered at UCLA to test their skills...