UCLA researchers have discovered that the Chinese practice of tai chi can reduce inflammation in people who have had breast cancer, thereby reducing a risk factor for the recurrence of the cancer. Current research indicates that women diagnosed with breast cancer in the past 10 years are three times...

Faculty of the UCLA College have approved a proposal requiring all College undergraduates to complete a course focused on diversity. A total of 659 ballots were cast — 332 in favor, 303 opposed and 24 blank. Forty-six percent of eligible faculty members participated in the election. The proposal will...

Undocumented UC students who qualify for in-state tuition but are ineligible for federal assistance soon will be able to borrow up to $4,000 a year to make up the shortfall, thanks to a new law supported by the University of California and state legislators. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed legislative...

Launching a critical new phase in developing the Internet of the future, UCLA will host a consortium of universities and leading technology companies to promote the development and adoption of Named Data Networking. NDN is an emerging Internet architecture that promises to increase network security,...

New commercial space is expected to increase through 2017 across most California real estate markets, thanks in part to job growth and goods moving through the state’s ports. The outlook is based on the recent Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey, a leading indicator of...

With Californians looking for ways to adapt to what experts predict will be a years-long – perhaps decades-long – drought, water researchers from UCLA and elsewhere are helping the region understand the issues, history and possible solutions through a discussion series with the Natural History Museum. The...

UCLA has received more applications for fall 2014 undergraduate admission than any other University of California school, continuing a trend that in recent years has made the campus the most applied-to four-year university in the nation. Diversity increased among applicants to UCLA this year, with Chicanos/Latinos,...

California’s largest collection of meteorites, and the fifth-largest collection in the nation, is on display in the new UCLA Meteorite Gallery, which is free to the public. The museum, located in UCLA’s Geology Building (Room 3697) is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on some weekend...

Kerckhoff Hall When the Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1994, damaging or destroying thousands of buildings throughout the region, UCLA was nearly a decade into a seismic safety construction retrofit program. Using previous temblors as catalysts, the program was an intensive effort...

Thanks to a $4 million gift from Lockheed Martin, UCLA Health System’s Operation Mend now has a state-of-the-art telehealth suite, which will enable improved communication between the program’s personnel, patients and partners, and a renovated recovery area for the wounded warriors who undergo...