J. Fraser Stoddart wins 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry
J. Fraser Stoddart, who was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA from 1997 to 2008 and is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, has been...
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Gift establishes endowed chair in history
Nickoll Family Chair to be awarded to renowned history scholar and UCLA faculty member Ben Nickoll History alumnus Ben Nickoll ’86 was brought up in a family in which helping others and giving back...
View ArticleVideo: UCLA scholars on the presidential race
UCLA faculty, visiting scholars and political thinkers continue to grapple with a contentious presidential campaign that includes “two of the most unpopular candidates in American history,” as Bill...
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UCLA launches master of social science program
Applications are now open for a new Master of Social Science (MaSS) Program, a nine-month degree program that will be the first of its kind on the West Coast. Launching in Fall 2017, the UCLA MaSS...
View ArticleNew exhibition at UCLA celebrates history of Boyle Heights
In line with its mission to uncover and preserve the rich history of Jewish Los Angeles, the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies will open a new multimedia exhibition next week that highlights...
View ArticleUCLA professors reflect on how Trump defied the polls
Going into Election Day, all the major polls and news organizations like FiveThirtyEight, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times predicted that Donald Trump would lose the presidential race by...
View ArticleKareem Abdul-Jabbar gets Medal of Freedom at White House
UCLA graduate and iconic basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was among 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom honored by President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday afternoon.
View ArticleUCLA astronomers watch star clusters spewing out dust
Galaxies are often thought of as sparkling with stars, but they also contain gas and dust. Now, a team led by UCLA astronomers has used new data to show that stars are responsible for producing dust on...
View ArticleInfants show apparent awareness of ethnic differences, UCLA psychologists report
Infants less than a year old, who have yet to learn language, appear to notice differences when looking at adult women of different ethnicities, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows.
View ArticleUCLA faculty voice: The One-China policy benefits China, Taiwan and the...
Although Trump’s questioning the “One China” policy may seem like a quick and clever way to get China’s attention, this decades-old policy’s ambiguity actually benefits United States, China and Taiwan.
View ArticleChilling climate revelations from the last ice age
About 14,000 years ago, the southwest United States was lush and green, home to saber-toothed cats and mammoths. Meanwhile, the Pacific Northwest was mostly grassland.
View ArticleUri McMillan honored for his book on black feminist art and performance
The Modern Language Association of America recently announced it is awarding its 15th annual William Sanders Scarborough Prize to Uri McMillan, associate professor of English at UCLA, for his book...
View ArticleUCLA faculty voice: Putin is Trump’s most dangerous best friend
In the 1962 political thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” a hostile government uses covert measures and secret agents in an elaborate plot to get its favored candidate elected president of the United...
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Where are they now – Cailin Crockett
Cailin Crockett ’10 made history as one of UCLA’s first Astin scholars, an undergraduate scholarship program supporting hands-on experience in civic engagement. We featured the Astin scholars in the...
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UCLA acquires major collection of Sephardic Jewish past
Symbolic key from the 1932 dedication of L.A.’s Temple Tifereth Israel (courtesy of STTI Archive) The UCLA Sephardic Archive has acquired one of the most significant collections ever assembled...
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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to send a NASA mission to Mars — it takes a vast constellation of rocket scientists, astrophysicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and other specialists.
View ArticleBecome a citizen scientist and help preserve California’s biodiversity
Would you like to become a volunteer citizen scientist helping to document and analyze California’s rich biodiversity? If so, you can be among 1,000 volunteers who will collect 18,000 samples of soil...
View ArticleThe moon is older than scientists thought, UCLA-led research team reports
A UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought.
View ArticleUCLA faculty voice: Obama should not feel obligated to go quietly
If Mr. Trump expected Barack Obama, who will be the first president since Woodrow Wilson to continue living in Washington, to retire to silence, he got a rude awakening on Wednesday.
View ArticlePolitical affiliation can predict how people will react to false information...
The study, which will be published in the journal Psychological Science, found that people who hold more socially conservative views were significantly more likely than people with liberal beliefs to...
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