"Twelve Years a Slave" has won the Best Picture Academy Award. UCLA has a prized first edition of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir. Check out a gallery of this and other first editions that have come to the silver screen.

Outreach programs, such as UC's Early Academic Outreach Program, have taken on renewed importance as a way to build a student body that reflects the state's diverse population.

"Tiger Mom" may be off base: UC Irvine/UCLA study of Los Angeles immigrants finds that when we measure success as progress from generation to generation, Mexican-Americans come out ahead.

UC San Francisco's Dr. Robert Lustig is often called "the anti-sugar guy." But he says "the anti-processed-food guy" might be more accurate.