Three UCLA professors will visit the White House this spring to receive one of the highest honors awarded to young researchers. The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers recognizes influential work in fields such as agricultural innovation, environmental protection and national defense. Read more...

Photo: Three UCLA professors will visit the White House this spring to receive one of the highest honors awarded to young researchers. (Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science)

Every year, a small city in Uganda transforms into a center of free surgery for patients who suffer a painful, unusual complication from childbirth – a hole torn between the birth canal and the bladder or rectum. Read more...

Photo: Christopher Tarnay, division chief of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and UCLA doctors travel to Uganda each year to help people with childbirth complications. (Courtesy of Oscar Zagal)