A new book by sociology chair and folk music expert William Roy traces a UCLA alumnus' role in "We Shall Overcome" turning into a protest anthem. Story and music selections
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School bullying, evaluating teachers, monkeypox in Africa and the rising number of California uninsured are among the UCLA research topics covered in this week's webcast. Details | Watch in HDAround Campus
Art for life
Students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA are learning through art how to be more compassionate caregivers. UCLA Today
Young mother, hard choices
English professor Mona Simpson gets the ideas for her novels "anywhere and everywhere."
Operation gratitude
Incoming first-year students are assembling Bruin care packages for U.S. service members overseas that contain UCLA apparel, iTunes cards and personal letters.
Royce Hall facelift
Thirty-five years after graduating, Tatyana Thompson helps restore original murals on the portico of Royce Hall.
Help for Haiti
Students and faculty from the UC Haiti Initiative will travel to the island nation for a 10-day fact-finding visit on earthquake recovery needs.Latest News
Novel nanotech collaboration leads to cancer breakthrough
Obesity, diabetes epidemics continue to grow in California
A majority of adults in California are obese or overweight and more than 2 million have been diagnosed with diabetes. the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research finds.
Virus related to smallpox rising sharply in Africa, study finds
Electronics lab receives $1 million gift to support research
The gift commitment from Wintek Corp. will support engineering professor M.C. Frank Chang's advanced research on electronic displays and wireless integrated circuit designs.
Campus excels in recently released rankings of universities
Rankings by the Washington Monthly, U.S. News & World Report and Shanghai's Jiao Tong University confirm UCLA's standing as one of the world's top public institutions.
NASA's SOFIA mission delves into mysteries of our galaxy
Number of uninsured Californians grew during recession
A new analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that during the recent economic downturn, uninsurance rates increased in every county in the state.
Psychologists say victims of bullying suffer academically
Cosmic accelerators found in our galaxy by UCLA physicists
Adult lung stem cells associated with poor cancer prognosis
They may mutate and become cancer-causing stem cells, making them a potential cell of origin for lung cancer and a possible target for prevention strategies.
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Rating teachers
In the wake of recent Los Angeles Times reports, teachers, administrators and parents are debating the use of student testing data as a measure of teacher performance. UCLA has experts.
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Solar eruptions recreated in lab
Wired reports on a study led by Walter Gekelman, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, and Shreekrishna Tripathi, a UCLA assistant researcher in physics and astronomy, in which researchers recreated solar eruptions — explosive bursts seen on the surface of the sun — in miniature in the laboratory. The research suggests that such eruptions are caused when charged particles flow into loops of magnetic field that extend from the sun’s upper atmosphere.