Architect Roger Sherman founded cityLAB, a research and design center at UCLA, with his colleague Dana Cuff after realizing a need for an outlet for UCLA architecture students and faculty to solve contemporary urban problems.

Two months had passed since Yolanda Barclay’s son was arrested, and she was starting to feel desperate.
Barclay couldn’t afford to pay for a private law firm.

Janelle Cohen sat on the floor of her apartment surrounded by scrapbook paper, index cards, old ribbon, markers and 14 boxes of feminine hygiene pads last week, making her first packages for We Care, a feminine care product drive for Los Angeles women in homeless shelters.

When David Lyons went to his doctor to get a fertility test, the doctor asked him what his wife’s job was. Lyons politely corrected him – his husband worked in management consulting.

UCLA scientists at the California NanoSystems Institute have developed a more efficient and cost-effective method to extract and analyze cancer cells from a patient’s blood.
The NanoVelcro Chip, which is about the size of a postage stamp, contains wires 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.

Three years ago, David Alpern felt a lump in the back of his throat and went to see his doctor. His biopsy came back as tonsil cancer.

Alex Ramsey started donating blood in high school after hearing stories from his stepfather about accidents he saw in his law enforcement job.
But after Ramsey came out as gay when he was 17, he learned he was no longer able to donate blood because of his sexuality.

Her 2-year-old son lay on the hospital bed with an IV in his arm. Wearing gloves and a mask, Jessica Ainslie gently patted his head as they waited for UCLA researchers to arrive with a potential cure for his disease – a syringe filled with his own genetically modified bone marrow.

Alex Hall stood at the podium as he pointed to a graph showing two different scenarios of temperature: one accounting for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and another factoring in no reductions.

In the evenings when her husband was sleeping, she would talk to herself to prepare for the procedure. Though she was nervous about the decision she was making, she knew it could potentially change her genetic fate.