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Former NFL and UCLA coach Jim Mora has been named as the next head football coach of the University of Connecticut.

Barbra Streisand is establishing an institute at UCLA to conduct research into a range of social issues, ranging from climate change to environmental health to gender relations and how to combat disinformation at a national level. The Barbra Streisand Institute will be located in UCLA’s division of social sciences and consist of four centers that will address specified areas...

New research from UCLA suggests that the biological age of women who don’t sleep enough during the first year after they give birth to their babies was higher than women who did sleep enough.

Former football coach Terry Donahue, the winningest coach in UCLA history, has died at age 77 after a two-year battle with cancer Sunday night at his Newport Beach home.

A UCLA study published Monday found that the proportion of physicians who are Black in the United States has increased by only four percentage points over the past 120 years, and that the share of doctors who are Black men remains unchanged since 1940.

Pesticide exposure during pregnancy might lead to the development of central nervous system tumors during childhood, according to a study involving researchers from UCLA, USC and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Gonzaga has given fans the NCAA championship game they wanted with a shot for the ages.

A former University of California, Los Angeles men’s soccer coach has been sentenced to eight months behind bars for pocketing $200,000 in bribes to help applicants get into the school as bogus athletic recruits

While some data shows that millennials may be the least racially biased group in the nation, they still show “strong racial bias and anti-Blackness” when looking for roommates, a UCLA study released today suggests.

Harvard University undergrad Noah Harris arrived at a Black Lives Matter protest in June in his home state of Mississippi bearing sunglasses, a bandana mask and a “say their names” sign. By summer’s end, he led his classmates in raising $300,000 for Black advocacy and civil rights organizations, NBC News reports. His work grabbed the attention of his fellow Harvard…

A former University of California, Los Angeles men’s soccer coach has pleaded guilty to accepting $200,000 in bribes to help two students get into the school as recruits.

A woman who was locked up five months in a Spanish prison after her arrest in the college admissions bribery scheme won’t spend any more time behind bars.

The former University of California at Los Angeles men’s soccer coach will plead guilty to taking $200,000 in bribes as part of the college admissions cheating scheme, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Jorge Salcedo, 47, of Los Angeles, will admit to getting bribes in exchange for helping get one male and one female student into the school as fake soccer recruits….

UCLA Biodesign Fellow Glen Meyerowitz built the device in a few hours and is hoping it can serve as a proof-of-concept for a low-cost ventilator that could help hospitals with ventilator shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A woman charged in the college admissions scandal pleaded guilty Friday to paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit. Xiaoning Sui, 49, a Chinese citizen who lives in Surrey, British Columbia, pleaded guilty to a single count of federal programs bribery in Boston’s federal court. The charge is used…

The track at UCLA’s Drake Stadium will be formally unveiled Friday as the Betsy and Rafer Johnson Track in honor of the 1960 Olympic decathlon gold medalist and his wife, a fellow alumnus.

The Fed is expected to announce Wednesday that it is cutting its benchmark interest rate by one quarter of a percentage point, its third rate cut this year. “When the Fed raises or reduces the cost of money, it affects interest rates across the board,” said Greg McBride Bankrate’s chief financial analyst. “One way or another, it’s going to impact...

Researchers found 69 genes that increase the risk for autism spectrum disorder. Sixteen of those genes were not previously suspected to be associated with a risk for autism.

Two women say in a federal class action lawsuit they were sexually assaulted by a former gynecologist who worked for the University of California, Los Angeles.

Carli Lloyd had just scored on an 18-yard volley to put the United States ahead 11 minutes in against Chile. After leaping, pumping a fist and hugging teammate Lindsey Horan, she raised both hands chin high and made four tiny pitter-patter claps, the type seen more frequently at Pebble Beach than Parc des Princes. A message? You bet.