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UCLA researchers map the costs of incarceration in Los Angeles
New website tracks incarceration by neighborhood where the inmate lives and totals how much is spent by community.
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UCLA ranks high in Times Higher Education’s top universities in the world
UCLA improved its standing in the 2016–2017 rankings placing No. 14 worldwide and No. 10 in the United States.
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Biological ‘dark matter’ molecule plays surprise role in heart failure
The discovery by UCLA researchers may help scientists develop effective therapies to prevent or reverse this common and often fatal disease.
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UCLA Foundation Board welcomes 5 new members
Board chair Shirley Wang will announce the UCLA Chancellor’s Centennial Scholars Match, which aims to add $150 million to endowed undergraduate scholarship support.
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Service 101: Thousands of Bruins volunteer across Los Angeles
UCLA’s eighth annual Volunteer Day gives new students their first taste of Bruin life and provides service and support at 50 locations throughout L.A. County.
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New UCLA students begin college with a lesson in service
UCLA Volunteer Day will send thousands of new Bruins joined by employees and alumni to 50 sites across Los Angeles to work on projects at schools, parks, senior centers, and veterans’ sites.
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Gary Segura named new dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Segura, who is a professor of political science at Stanford and a leading scholar in the politics of America’s growing Latino minority, will succeed Lois Takahashi.
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Astronomers capture best view ever of disintegrating comet
The team, led by a UCLA researcher, used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to gather data on Comet 332P as it broke apart 67 million miles from Earth.
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Increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria hinders treatment of kidney infections
UCLA-led researchers recommend development of new medications and new guidelines for treatment with different types and combinations of antibiotics.
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UCLA researchers use stem cells to grow 3-D lung-in-a-dish
The laboratory-grown tissue can be used to study diseases including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which has traditionally been difficult to study using conventional methods.
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Pacific Ocean’s response to greenhouse gases could extend California drought for centuries
A UCLA study shows that warming forces have caused millennia of dryness in California’s prehistory, and greenhouses gases could do the same.
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UCLA chemists report new insights about properties of matter at the nanoscale
A fluid that behaves similarly to water in our day-to-day lives becomes as heavy as honey when trapped in a nanocage.
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Common breast cancer test may not be worth the cost, UCLA study suggests
Though the test reduces the number of women undergoing radiation, researchers say doctors and policy makers should further discuss the value of using Oncotype DX DCIS.
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UCLA gets ready for new academic year with festivals, food and fun
This year’s True Bruin Welcome, which runs Sept. 15 to 29, features dozens of events, including festivals, concerts, film screenings, networking events and tours.
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UCLA ranked No. 2 public university in the country by U.S. News and World Report
UCLA is No. 2 among America’s national public universities and No. 24 overall in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” rankings.
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Vintage Los Angeles news treasures go digital
A 1964 interview with Martin Luther King Jr. is one of many historical moments from KTLA-TV in a new online portal created by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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A guide to turn the L.A. River green
A new toolkit created by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation is designed to help communities navigate paths to improving the areas immediately around the river.
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Less developed human stem cells are found to metabolize more sugar
The least developed human embryonic stem cells, or “naïve” pluripotent stem cells, consume more sugar than “primed” pluripotent stem cells, which are embryonic stem cells from later in development, researchers have discovered.
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UCLA–Caltech study identifies brain cells that help people learn by watching others
The findings could provide scientists with a better understanding of how the brain goes awry in conditions like learning disorders and social anxiety disorder.
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Most parents likely to follow outdated advice when caring for a child with a concussion, UCLA survey shows
Parents doing things like isolating a child from all activity or waking a child from sleep to check in could actually be making their child’s symptoms worse.
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UCLA study links autism to changes in micro-RNAs
The discovery opens up a new avenue of research into autism’s causes and potential therapies.
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Public money accounts for more than 70 percent of health care spending in California
UCLA researchers say that given the dominance of public spending in health care, a single-payer system might be more feasible than previously thought.
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Fowler Museum presents first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Cuban artist Belkis Ayón
“Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón” features 43 prints that explore the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban secret society Abakuá. The exhibition opens Oct. 2.
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If you build it, will they have to leave?
UCLA urban planners create an interactive mapping tool to analyze whether developments near Los Angeles light-rail and subway projects displace people.
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UCLA ranks highly in annual Washington Monthly rankings
The campus is noted for excellence in research, service and social mobility. In a related ranking, UCLA placed No. 20 in “Best Bang for the Buck Western Colleges.”
- Sunday, September 25, 2016