San Gabriel High School teacher Leah Ulloa Ruiz teaches a data science lesson to calculate the likelihood of whether men or women will be victims in horror movies. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times ...

“Alina Gataullina, a math major, works with other students as they talk about mathematics in the undergraduate math lounge. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)” Editor’s note: This story was originally ...

Lynda J. Goff, a UC administrator and faculty member who played a lead role in designing the University of California's initiative to train more K-12 science and mathematics teachers, has been named ...

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Briana Hampton, a San Gabriel High School junior, is determined to get into a four-year university to achieve her dream of becoming a social worker or psychiatrist. But she feared she would fail a ...

University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), has had its free online algebra and pre-calculus courses approved for credit by the by the American Council on Education (ACE). The approval by ACE will ...

For UC Davis philosopher, Elaine Landry, thought experiments like ‘if a tree falls in the forest, will it make a noise?’ is one way to conceptualize how mathematicians and physicists think when they ...

The University of California announced a proposal this week to raise tuition next fall — but managed to make the price hike look like a price break. For five years, UC has said its annual tuition for ...

BERKELEY — UC Berkeley students are demanding the campus keep a popular and outspoken math lecturer who claims he is being pushed out, in part, for being too good a teacher. Thousands of students and ...