How to Make Your Alma Mater Matter in LA
You went to college back East, down South, or in the Midwest and whether you're five or 25 years out, now that you live in Los Angeles your relationsh...
You went to college back East, down South, or in the Midwest and whether you're five or 25 years out, now that you live in Los Angeles your relationsh...
ESPN Los Angeles | Posted 12.22.2009 | Los Angeles
UCLA senior forward Nikola Dragovic pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court on Monday morning to a felony assault charge stemming from a fight outsi...
Eli Broad | Posted 12.02.2009 | Los Angeles
With apologies to Randy Newman and David Letterman, I offer the top ten reasons I love LA (and you'll notice there's no mention of Hollywood, Disneyland, the weather or the beaches).
Gene D. Block | Posted 12.02.2009 | Los Angeles
The Southern California community seems not to see that if UCLA sinks into mediocrity, so do the quality of life and economic vitality of Los Angeles.
latimes.com | Gary Klein and Chris Foster | Posted 11.28.2009 | Los Angeles
For the first time since 2001, Los Angeles' crosstown football rivalry doesn't have implications for a major bowl game. But that doesn't mean there ar...
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living
To save money the UC System was about to raise undergraduate tuition by 32 percent, in addition to hiking fees for professional degrees.
AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 11.20.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus...
New York Times | ANNE EISENBERG | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology
MICROSCOPES are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are als...
Posted 11.02.2009 | World
On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.10.2009 | Home
LOS ANGELES — Blood gushed from a student's neck and formed a puddle on the floor of a UCLA lab as instructors struggled to stanch the wound. T...
Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
With makeshift signs that read "Don't Tread On Me" and "The End of Freedom is Socialism," these conservative citizens were there to rally for their side of the healthcare debate, albeit too often, an ill-informed idée fixe.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Regardless of which side of the religious and socio-political spectrum a child's parent or guardian is on, that child is innocent. Children are not billboards for hatred, malice and lies.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
While the good folks at U.S. News and World Report ascribe certain measurements of prestige to their college rankings, we rated schools based on what matters most to us.
Paul Armentano | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Michael Meranze | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
If Jefferson linked together education, freedom of thought, universities and national independence what can we say about our own political leaders?
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
In last week's blog, Susan Smalley, Ph.D., founder of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA, shared with us her fascinating journey. Af...
Peter Dreier | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
The governor's decision to eliminate the UCLA Labor Center -- a valuable, nationally-recognized center of research, teaching, and community service -- is clearly a political maneuver, not a budget necessity.
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
I recently attended a gathering of supporters of the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at the University of California, Los Angeles. During this event, I heard MARC founder (and Huffington Post blogger) Susan Smalley, Ph.D., speak. Dr. Smalley, a research scientist for 25 years, shared her fascinating journey of how she was inspired to create a center for mindfulness research.
Tom Gregory | Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson's life has always been a contradiction of outlandish oddity and pinpoint perfection. Now in death, with the unknown location of his body, the enigma continues.
Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
James Franco canceled giving the UCLA commencement speech last month, and now he's done a video for Funny or Die making fun of himself. The video o...
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
Real leaders are not people who can point out what is wrong. Almost anyone can do that. Real leaders are people who can make things better.
ew.com | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment
James Franco will no longer deliver the commencement speech at the UCLA College of Letters and Science graduation ceremony on June 12, the university ...
news.yahoo.com | Alice Park | Posted 06.20.2009 | Living
Among the many mysteries that befuddle autism researchers: why the disorder affects boys four times more often than girls. But in new findings reporte...
Sylvia Sukop | Posted 12.24.2009 | Los Angeles