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Guidance on the current measles outbreak from UCLA and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

UCLA’s Keith Holyoak takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying human intelligence, critical thinking and creativity.

Elisabeth Le Guin, Catherine Opie, Sylvan Oswald, and Lothar von Falkenhausen were selected for the honor.

Cronin becomes the 14th head coach of UCLA men’s basketball, agreeing to a six-year contract.

Through the Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation, the couple have been prolific philanthropists who have supported medical and environmental research, as well as education, arts and children’s welfare programs.

Starting in 2020, UCLA physicians will provide care to players during home games and handle the team’s annual physicals during spring training.

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College Signing Day is a national celebration of all high school seniors and transfer students — especially those underrepresented on campuses — committed to pursuing higher education.

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier.

The top ranking reflected a record-breaking fiscal year for the campus during which the Centennial Campaign for UCLA surpassed its $4.2 billion goal ahead of schedule.

Denis Chetverikov, Yongjie Hu and Aaswath Raman are among 126 early-career scientists and scholars from across the United States and Canada selected to receive fellowships.

The Mo Ostin Academic Center for Student-Athletes, to be built in the heart of campus, will be designed to serve the scholastic needs of student-athletes who participate in UCLA's 25 intercollegiate athletic programs.

More than 135,000 applications for freshman and transfer admission came in for fall 2019.

Strempel is an opera singer and professor of voice in the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She will start as inaugural dean of the music school effective July 8.

UCLA has earned the top spot on Money’s list of “10 Best Colleges for Transfer Students.”

Martin Luther King Jr. once hailed Lawson as the world’s leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.

A new report identifies researchers in 21 fields whose work was most often referenced by other papers from 2006 to 2016.

The institute will continue to provide full two-year scholarships for six to eight international musicians participating in a prestigious master’s degree program.

No research was lost at the La Kretz Center Field Station structure, but the wildfire’s effect on the broader habitat will affect several ongoing studies.

Prospective students may request to extend the fall undergraduate application deadline and receive fee waivers.

Affording a group its constitutional rights should not be perceived as an institutional endorsement of the group’s message.

UCLA is also the No. 3 American public university among the top 1,250 universities in 75 countries that were considered in the evaluation.

Among his many accomplishments, the biostatistics professor earned worldwide recognition for predicting the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic beginning in the mid-1980s.

“Morton’s leadership and philanthropy are testaments to his belief that the true measure of a life is not what you get, but what you give,” said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block.