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Low-income undocumented adults are largely locked out of health care in California, study finds
Nine in 10 lack insurance.
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UCLA researchers studying how the Woolsey fire affects plant and animal recovery
Teams will closely monitor more than 50 burn areas in the Santa Monica Mountains examining effects throughout the food chain.
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Researchers create ultra-lightweight ceramic material that can better withstand extreme temperatures
The aerogel stood up to sudden and extreme temperature spikes between minus 198 degrees Celsius and 900 degrees above zero over just a few seconds.
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Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself
In a Q&A, UCLA’s Dr. Leena Nathan explains which infections sexually active people are more likely to be exposed to and to contract.
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UCLA Festival of Preservation begins Feb. 15
The UCLA Film and Television Archive will present classic Hollywood, independent films and documentaries in the Billy Wilder Theater for the festival weekend.
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Thanks to UCLA and Make-A-Wish, 6-year-old gymnast scores a perfect 10
Joselin Palma became a member of the UCLA gymnastics team for a day as part of Make-A-Wish Greater Los Angeles’ 10,000th granted wish.
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UCLA Athletics introduces plans for student-athlete academic center
The Mo Ostin Academic Center for Student-Athletes, to be built in the heart of campus, will be designed to serve the scholastic needs of student-athletes who participate in UCLA's 25 intercollegiate athletic programs.
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UCLA biologist’s research could lead to more resilient crops
Jacobsen specializes in plant epigenetics — the study of how a gene’s function can change without changes to the DNA sequence.
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UCLA alumnus John Daversa sweeps his categories at the 61st Grammy Awards
Jazz trumpeter Daversa won three awards and jazz performance professor Wayne Shorter won best jazz instrumental album.
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Electrical activity early in fruit flies’ brain development could shed light on how neurons wire the brain
A study by UCLA neuroscientists suggests that the signals could help neurons find each other to form networks.
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UCLA TFT to commemorate the Parkland shooting with staged reading of the play ‘Church & State’
The free performance on Feb. 14 will begin at 5:30 p.m. and be held in Macgowan Hall. It will be followed panel discussion about gun violence
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Indonesia’s devastating 2018 earthquake was a rare ‘supershear,’ according to UCLA-led study
Only a dozen such quakes have been identified in the past two decades, according to Lingsen Meng, UCLA’s Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Professor of Physics and Geophysics.
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For recurrent glioblastoma, immunotherapy before surgery appears to help more than afterward
“We now have a rational and logical way to develop immunotherapies going forward and a clinical development process for doing it,” said UCLA's Dr. Timothy Cloughesy.
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Music therapy program at UCLA aims to help premature infants develop feeding skills
Researchers worked with a family with triplets to study a lullaby device used in the intensive care unit.
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Shorter course of radiation therapy effective in treating men with prostate cancer
A long-term, UCLA-led study finds that those with low- or intermediate-risk disease can safely cut treatment to four to five days.
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All-star panel examines race, politics and activism in sports
The discussion, which featured alumni, a professor and a current student athlete, was held as part of 100th birthday tribute to Jackie Robinson.
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UCLA receives $1 million from A&M Records cofounder Jerry Moss to support art and music students
The funds provide full-tuition scholarships for students at the School of the Arts and Architecture and the Herb Alpert School of Music.
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Professor wonders what adults lose when they stop engaging in competitive play
UCLA's Janet O’Shea says the answer has implications far beyond things like fitness and fun.
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Joint bank accounts make for happier couples
Those who keep finances separate are likelier to split up and be less satisfied, according to a working paper from researchers at UCLA Anderson, Notre Dame and University College of London.
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UCLA welcomes Oscar-nominated costume designers to campus
Alexandra Byrne, Ruth Carter, Sandy Powell and Mary Zophres will be joined at the annual Sketch to Screen event by fellow designers Erin Benach and Mary Vogt.
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How are immigrants changing our definition of health?
UCLA professors Marjorie Kagawa-Singer and David Hayes-Bautista participated in a Zócalo Public Square/The California Wellness Foundation discussion.
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UCLA’s Dennis Slamon awarded Sjöberg Prize for pioneering cancer research
The driving force behind the development of Herceptin will split a $1 million prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Sjöberg Foundation.
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UCLA remains the most applied-to UC campus and university in the country
More than 135,000 applications for freshman and transfer admission came in for fall 2019.
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UCLA receives $15.2 million bequest from estate of entertainer Garry Shandling
The comedian, actor, director, writer and producer, who died in March 2016, directed funds to benefit research in endocrinology, diabetes and hypertension; infectious diseases; and pancreatic diseases.
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UCLA leads development of first-of-its-kind telescope for gamma-ray astronomy
Vladimir Vassiliev, professor of physics and astronomy, has served as principal investigator on project that could help address questions in very-high-energy astrophysics.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2019