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Can L.A. go local for its future water supply?
UCLA environmental researchers create comprehensive model to find out how Los Angeles County can reduce its reliance on imported water.
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UCLA faculty voice: How Iceland’s Viking heritage helped salvage its economy
Economist Jerry Nickelsburg on how the Nordic nation overcame a deep financial crisis through improved regulation, higher bank equity requirements, and strict financial stress tests.
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Newly minted UCLA School of Law graduate argues before Ninth Circuit
Elizabeth Arias’ rare opportunity came from participating in the law school’s First Amendment clinic headed by professor Eugene Volokh.
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UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital plan strategic affiliation
The two organizations intend to establish a broader collaboration to strengthen their ability to offer the highest-quality care.
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A lesson in good government
Two political veterans with conservative backgrounds told a UCLA audience that legislative success depends on compromise, not on who can yell the loudest.
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HIV-positive women with cytomegalovirus likelier to pass virus that causes AIDS to infant
The research also found that women who had gonorrhea when they gave birth were nearly 20 times more likely to pass on CMV to their babies.
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Intimate details of life as a Civil War soldier depicted in rare sketches
A book of 1893 drawings by a Union veteran was painstakingly restored by UCLA Library Special Collections.
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UCLA neuroscientist offers game plan to better understand sports concussions
Hospital emergency rooms treat more than 170,000 children each year for sports-related traumatic brain injuries. What do parents and coaches need to know to protect their kids and players?
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High-fat diet leads to same intestinal inflammation as a virus
Results of the UCLA study could lead to new types of drugs, targeting the intestinal cells, to reduce people’s risk of heart attacks and strokes, or to treat other conditions linked to inflammation, including cancer.
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Library professional development program at UCLA welcomes new leader, new partners
Brian Schottlaender comes from UC San Diego to head the Senior Fellows Program.
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Rare genetic variants found to increase risk for Tourette syndrome
An international team led by researchers from UCLA and Massachusetts General Hospital helped lead discovery of the first definitive genetic mutations.
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UC consortium formed to speed up development of new drugs
The new consortium could not only help generate life-saving treatments, but also create significant economic activity from spin-off companies to licenses and collaborations with industry.
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Students of all races feel safer in ethnically diverse middle schools, UCLA researchers report
The study, led by UCLA professor Jaana Juvonen, surveyed more than 4,300 sixth-graders in Southern and Northern California.
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Immigrant doctors trained to help bridge major gaps in care
The UCLA International Medical Graduate Program offers education and certification to physicians who agree to provide services in underserved communities.
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Social workers and medical students: ‘the ideal team’
The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs social welfare department provides lessons in social work and a diversity of experiences to first-year medical students.
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UCLA School of Law’s Supreme Court clinic wins landmark trademark case
The victory in Matal v. Tam marks the second win of the term for the clinic headed by professor Stuart Banner.
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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA names winner of Switzer Prize for research excellence
Dr. Huda Zoghbi, a Baylor University neurologist, has helped uncover the molecular basis of neurological disorders including Rett syndrome.
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'Be relentless,' new UCLA graduates are told
Anita Ortega, a former UCLA basketball star and the first African-American woman to become a Los Angeles Police Department area commander, advised graduates to push on their own behalf and for the voiceless.
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Nine research projects are awarded Transdisciplinary Seed Grants
Two priorities for the fiscal year 2017 competition were north campus-led research projects and projects involving big data and related tools and capabilities.
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UCLA ranks among top institutions for awarding the most Ph.D.s in arts, humanities
UCLA is one of the top universities in the country for producing the most Ph.D.s in the arts and humanities. In 2014-15, UCLA tied for No.1 in the nation with NYU, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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American Indian graduates celebrate their academic success at UCLA
The first two women of Tongva descent to be awarded Ph.D.s at UCLA celebrated that milestone today at UCLA’s Graduate Division Doctoral Hooding, held on a campus that now sits on the ancient land of their ancestors.
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UCLA graduating senior inherited love of learning from her grandmother
Kaylin Wesley plans to use her knowledge to alleviate major challenges facing black youth as they struggle to attain an education and health care, among other objectives.
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UCLA historian brings language of the Aztecs from ancient to contemporary times
Once the lingua franca of Mexico, Nahuatl was eventually overtaken by Spanish. Today, the Aztec language is spoken only by 1.5 million people in Mexico, many of whom live in the state of Veracruz on the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico.
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From prison to honors graduate
UCLA senior James Anderson spent three years behind bars, then co-founded a nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated people, and now plans to dedicate himself to justice system reform.
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One of UCLA's youngest grads is headed for a future in Silicon Valley
Graduating senior Luke Vellotti is leaving UCLA this week with two bachelor’s degrees — one in mathematics and one in computer science — and starting his career at Google as a software developer.
- Saturday, June 24, 2017