Seven UCLA faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 213 new members who include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers and artists.
View ArticleFoxes on one of California’s Channel Islands have least genetic variation of...
UCLA biologists report in a new study that a species of foxes living on six of California’s Channel Islands have a surprising absence of genetic variation.
View ArticleUCLA faculty voice: Are we leaving nature behind?
Extinction is happening all around the world, but it’s happening in a way that barely touches the lives of the world’s children — most of whom live in cities.
View ArticlePresidential ads put to the test: SpotCheck evaluates 2016 campaign commercials
Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University will provide a data-backed understanding of commercials’ persuasiveness and effectiveness with SpotCheck, a new approach to rating...
View ArticleJared Diamond: A dispassionate look at religion over the course of history
Jared Diamond, UCLA’s Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of geography and an astute intellectual observer of human life in multiple practices, faced a standing-room-only audience who came to hear his...
View ArticleTimes Higher Education global reputation survey places UCLA No. 2 among U.S....
London’s Times Higher Education’s World Reputation Rankings, which assess the international prestige of institutions of higher learning, place the campus No. 2 among all U.S. public universities.
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First Director of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies at UCLA gives major...
By: Todd Presner, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Arnold Band, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California at Los...
View ArticleIn memoriam: UCLA physics professor Maha Ashour-Abdalla
Maha Ashour-Abdalla, a professor of physics with expertise in space plasma physics and a passion for teaching, died May 1. She was 72. Until very recently she was actively working on research and...
View ArticleA media-savvy celeb, Trump knows how to get coverage, journalists say
Donald Trump is a political phenomenon, a man extremely adept at maximizing his celebrity, which has kept him in the media spotlight throughout the presidential primary season and left his opponents...
View ArticleUCLA faculty voice: A smarter way to pay for parks
In California, we often pass multibillion-dollar environmental bonds and don’t look back at who benefited from the spending. But what if we could look back and learn? And then make smarter investments...
View ArticleLaw professor Laura Gómez named interim dean, UCLA College Division of Social...
Professor Laura Gómez has been appointed interim dean of the UCLA College Division of Social Sciences. She will assume the new post on July 1, when Dean Alessandro Duranti is scheduled to step down and...
View ArticleAstronomers confirm faintest early-universe galaxy ever seen
An international team of scientists, including two professors and three graduate students from UCLA, has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe galaxy ever.
View ArticleArchaeologists and geographers team to predict locations of ancient Buddhist...
In a study published this week in Current Science, archaeologist Monica Smith and geographer Thomas Gillespie identified 121 possible locations of what are known as Ashoka’s “edicts.”
View ArticleMiguel García-Garibay named dean of UCLA Division of Physical Sciences
Now a renowned scholar and chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, García-Garibay has been selected as dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences, effective July 1, Scott Waugh,...
View ArticleAfter kicking addiction, graduating UCLA student reboots life
This week, Hale, 53, will graduate with a degree in sociology and celebrate his transition to a new life at the campus’s Native-American graduation celebration on Friday at 4:30 p.m. with 18 other...
View ArticleUC regents appoint Dr. Owen Witte University Professor
Dr. Owen Witte, renowned scientist and esteemed member of UCLA’s faculty, has been appointed a University Professor by the University of California Board of Regents. This appointment is reserved for...
View ArticleUCLA graduates are told ‘the world needs you’
With whoops, hoots, foot-stomping and a reckless disregard for where their hats landed, graduates in UCLA’s class of 2016 shook Pauley Pavilion with applause as they celebrated their commencement on...
View ArticleProfessor collaborates with Getty Museum to bring 15th-century manuscript to...
UCLA professor and recently named Guggenheim Fellow Zrinka Stahuljak spent the last three years helping the J. Paul Getty Museum bring an important 15th-century Flemish manuscript to life for the...
View ArticleUsing big data, scientists discover biomarkers that could help give cancer...
People with cancer are often told by their doctors approximately how long they have to live, and how well they will respond to treatments, but what if there were a way to improve the accuracy of...
View ArticleUCLA receives $1.65 million from Mellon Foundation to continue urban...
By Margaret MacDonald A $1.65 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will strengthen UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative. The program, initially launched by a $2 million award from the...
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