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    If you want to see a dancer take her art form to a higher plane, look up. Way way up.   Amelia Rudolph, a choreographer and performer, took a gravity-defying stroll down the eight-story-high Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center...

Courtney Lyder (photo by Joe Toreno) So you call yourself a foodie? Come talk to us when you’ve got menu items named after you at several different restaurants.   That’s the case with Courtney Lyder, the charismatic dean of...

Jonathan Fielding is a man with many hats. Not only is he the founding director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, but he's also a faculty member in the Fielding School of Public Health and a philanthropist....

You can run off to join the circus. Or you can use the circus to train for a career in performing arts. The former is an All-American childhood dream. The latter is the latest inventive approach to entertainment education from the UCLA School of...

Jan Kempenaers took this shot of a monument near the village of Tjentište in Bosnia-Herzegovina  in 2007. Photographer Jan Kempenaers wanted to shoot ruins. What he found instead were spomeniks ― futuristic, socialist...

Nobel Laureate James Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953, attracted an overflow crowd hoping to claim a seat at the IMED Seminar Monday at the CNSI Auditorium. With people arriving as early as...

  Atop the dormant Mauna Kea volcano, 13,796 feet above the island of Hawaii, the W. M. Keck Observatory has been quietly revolutionizing what is known about the universe.   Scientists using the powerful twin telescopes at the...

A globe-trotting work of art is coming to the Hammer — and visitors are invited to contribute to its evolution.   Over the course of four marathon days — from Thursday, March 21, through Sunday, March 26, — the Domestic...

Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya speaks at "Israel in 3-D." If you didn’t already know what a complicated place Israel is, you certainly had a better idea after completing “Israel in 3-D,” the one-day university recently...

An exhibition at the Fowler Museum, "Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe," features 50 stunning 19th- to 20th-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the...

UCLA’s Center for Global Education had its birth following two tragedies that occurred on the other side of the world. A bus crash enroute to the Taj Mahal killed four American students and the husband of an educator when the driver lost...

Dentists at UCLA's Hospital Dentistry Clinic understand that special-needs patients often feel fearful about going to the dentist. It wasn’t easy for Barbara Smith to find dental care for her 23-year-old son, Mark, who has Down syndrome....

    With the expanding barrage of tweets threatening people with information overload, a UCLA doctoral student and four of her colleagues have figured out how to help them cope with what’s become known as social media...

During his term in office, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has managed to implement reforms at 22 of LAUSD's worst-performing schools. Since John Deasy took the top job as superintendent of LAUSD less than two years ago, he...