Jennifer Mnookin, a nationally renowned evidence law scholar who has held key administrative positions at the UCLA School of Law, has been appointed the school’s dean, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh announced Thursday. Mnookin, the David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of...

Wounded Warrior Project has approved a $15.7 million grant over three years for UCLA Health to expand its Operation Mend program. The grant will fund a new, intensive structured treatment program for service members suffering from mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Operation...

UCLA issued the first comprehensive environmental report card for Los Angeles County on Tuesday, marking the region as an unimpressive “C” student overall for air, water, waste and other key areas. After nearly two years of gathering and analyzing data, researchers at UCLA’s Institute...

Alexander Kusenko Most of the laws of nature treat particles and antiparticles equally, but stars and planets are made of particles, or matter, and not antiparticles, or antimatter. That asymmetry, which favors matter to a very small degree, has puzzled scientists for many years. New research by UCLA...

As the UC system marches toward its goal of carbon neutrality by 2025, UCLA is doing its part by using less energy per square foot of buildings than in 1990, converting half of its campus fleet to alternative-fuel vehicles and growing its roster of LEED-certified green buildings. Last year marked the...

A long-lost audio recording of a 50-year-old speech delivered at UCLA by the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been unearthed in a storage room in the communication studies department, which is now online. The 55-minute speech (embedded below) will go live today on King’s birthday,...

Fluorescence microscopes use technology that enables them to accomplish tasks not easy to achieve with normal light microscopes, including imaging DNA molecules to detect and diagnose cancer, nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, and drug resistance in infectious diseases. These microscopes...

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) announces its calendar of more than 150 public events for winter 2015. This is an opportunity for the public to experience the depth and diversity of UCLA Arts activities and creative programming including distinguished lectures, student exhibitions...

For the second consecutive year, UCLA ranked No. 5 in Kiplinger Personal Finance’s list of “Best Values in Public Colleges.” The report, published today, takes into consideration admission and retention rates, student-faculty ratio and four-year graduation rate, as well as tuition, financial aid...

UCLA Anderson Forecast’s fourth quarterly release of 2014 foresees the United States’ economy likely growing at a 3 percent pace during the next two years, as lower oil prices and higher wages bolster consumer spending and the unemployment rate falls to 5 percent. Along with consumer spending, aggressive...