Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy, UCLA-led...
Over the past few years, body mass index, a ratio of a person’s height and weight, has effectively become a proxy for whether a person is considered healthy. Many U.S. companies use their employees’...
View ArticleUCLA Olympian Meb Keflezighi to run on L.A. streets for the first time
Meb Keflezighi is the fastest qualifier for the 2016 Olympic Marathon trials, which will take place on Saturday, Feb. 13, in downtown Los Angeles. Keflezighi, who graduated from UCLA in 1999, will be...
View ArticleQ&A: UCLA psychologist Robert Bjork on the science of learning
Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, will share insights from his work as a renowned expert on human learning in the 120th Faculty Research Lecture, “How...
View ArticleUphill battle for California’s native plant species
Invasive species have moved faster than native species, colonizing and competing in new territories. But endemic species — those unique to California — have largely stayed put. Endemics currently...
View ArticleAntarctica could be headed for major meltdown
In the early Miocene Epoch, temperatures were 10 degrees warmer and ocean levels were 50 feet higher — well above the ground level of modern-day New York, Tokyo and Berlin. It was more than 16 million...
View ArticleHollywood Diversity Report: Mounting evidence that more diverse casts help...
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies has published its third annual Hollywood Diversity Report. The comprehensive study, subtitled “Busine$$ as Usual?,” examines the relationships...
View ArticleConfirming Einstein: Q&A with LIGO Scientist and EE Alum Richard Savage
Earlier this month, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced they had detected gravitational waves, confirming a prediction by Albert Einstein in his...
View ArticleUCLA senior has a new flight plan
Anyadike made national headlines in summer 2009, at age 15, by piloting a single-engine, four-seater Cessna 172 from Compton, California, to Newport News, Virginia, and back, making scheduled stops in...
View ArticleUCLA sociologist approaches modern Iran from ‘best of both worlds’
Perhaps Kevan Harris’ greatest good fortune was to arrive in Iran as a sociologist with no preconceptions about its culture or values. An Iranian American, Harris grew up in Kentucky and then Chicago,...
View ArticleFrom wrongfully jailed to artist, activist and UCLA professor
A new professor in UCLA’s African-American Studies department is rallying with students and faculty around increasingly visible injustices in the U.S. criminal justice system. It’s a topic near and...
View ArticleBlackRock chairman Laurence Fink receives UCLA Medal
Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, was awarded the UCLA Medal, the campus’s highest honor, in recognition of his service to the community and his legendary career in business and finance.
View ArticleUCLA mourns the passing of Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley, 92
Shapley was widely considered one of the fathers of game theory. His research focused on both cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, in fields including stochastic games, strategic market games,...
View ArticleRoot tale: A walking tour of the UCLA campus plants database
In 1966, when Wayne Dollase came to UCLA as an assistant professor of geology, he bought a 48-page guide to all the plants on campus, The University Garden, which had been co-authored by renowned...
View ArticleDon Nakanishi, 66, UCLA emeritus professor and pioneer in Asian American studies
Don Nakanishi, a UCLA scholar who gained national recognition for establishing Asian American studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service and public discourse,...
View ArticleUCLA IoES fundraiser honors champions of the environment
At its recent annual gala, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability raised a record $1.75 million for UCLA’s environmental research, education and community projects and honored four...
View ArticleUCLA faculty voice: Body mass index perpetuates stigmas and indicates little...
You’ve just returned from your morning run and you’re rustling through your snail mail when you receive some shocking news — an official memo from your employer informing you that your health insurance...
View ArticleThree UCLA professors named 2016 Guggenheim Fellows
A trio of UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 178 of scholars, artists and scientists from the U.S. and Canada to receive 2016 Guggenheim Fellowships.
View ArticleAre they friends or not? Just a second of laughter can reveal relationship...
Hearing other people laugh together, even for just one second, can be enough information to gauge whether or not those people are friends, according to a UCLA study.
View ArticleMajor advance in ‘synthetic biochemistry’ holds promise for industrial...
UCLA biochemists have devised a clever way to make a variety of useful chemical compounds, which could lead to the production of biofuels and new pharmaceuticals.
View ArticleBill of Right: Portray Harriet Tubman as Young and Tough on the $20
On Facebook and other social media platforms, many folks have celebrated the recent announcement that Harriet Tubman will adorn the front of the $20 bill by posting an image of the revered 19th century...
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