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UCLA brand campaign demonstrates the powerful influence of Optimism
The program continues last year’s themes of transformation and progress while exploring new stories that demonstrate Bruins’ unique can-do attitude.
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Epigenetic clock predicts life expectancy, UCLA-led study shows
New research suggests that our DNA holds the answer to why some people lead a perfectly healthy lifestyle and still die young.
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Research resolves a debate over ‘killer electrons’ in space
New findings by a UCLA-led team of researchers answer a question about our space environment and will help scientists protect telecommunication and navigation satellites.
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UCLA Anderson Forecast looks at economic growth amid presidential election
UCLA Anderson Forecast’s quarterly outlook for the national economy foresees real gross domestic product growth in the 2 percent to 2.5 percent range throughout 2017 and 2018, where it has been for the past seven years.
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BruinBus transit fleet ditches diesel and goes all clean fuel
UCLA becomes the first public university in California with electric buses, which join the 14 compressed natural gas buses that get people around campus.
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Common Book ignites social justice themes for UCLA’s newest students
After reading the book over the summer, new students participated in activities last week aimed at deepening their engagement with it.
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UCLA Luskin students watch and learn during presidential face-off
Debate watchers at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs try to second-guess how voters will react to the televised showdown.
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Time window to help people who’ve had a stroke longer than previously shown
UCLA-led study shows that stent retrievers can provide benefits more than seven hours after onset of a stroke.
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Researchers design wearable microscope that can measure fluorescent dyes through skin
UCLA scientists help create device that makes monitoring disease biomarkers easier and more cost-effective.
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UCLA faculty voice: L.A. can’t follow California’s lead on water conservation
Mark Gold criticizes the state’s decision to establish voluntary water conservation targets, and praises the continued drought reduction mandates of Los Angeles.
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Mindfulness helps children as young as 3 manage their emotions during school
Behind the move to bring mindfulness into the school day is the UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES), which sponsors this and other programs that support student resilience.
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UCLA will participate in NSF-funded science and technology imaging center
The cutting-edge project that includes renowned scientists will tackle major challenges in the physical sciences, life sciences and engineering.
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UCLA faculty voice: At poor schools, English learners lack the resources to succeed
Education professor Carola Suárez-Orozco pushes for revamping how teachers and administrators are trained to teach English language learners in K-12 schools.
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New book from UCLA’s Ursula Heise examines the conservationist thrall and narratives of extinction
In ‘Imagining Extinction,’ English professor Ursula Heise asks why people care about endangered species, why some animals become symbols and what that reveals about us.
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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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A memorial tribute to filmmaker Curtis Hanson
Hanson, a cinephile who attended many of the archive's events, launched the archive's popular series, "The Movie that Inspired Me."
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Anthropologist brings European refugee crisis to the classroom
Laurie Hart taught seminars over the summer at the University of the Aegean in Lesvos, Greece, where thousands of refugees who fled from Syria and other countries are encamped.
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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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New UCLA living learning community attracts creative, inventive Bruins
Close to 80 entrepreneurial undergraduates have moved into the new design and innovation living learning community in Sproul Hall. Together, they are working to bring their imaginative ideas and concepts to life.
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Q&A with Jennifer Mnookin: Raising the bar for scientific evidence in court
There have been many wrongful criminal convictions where the use of faulty forensic science evidence was a major culprit in producing injustice.
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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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Healing the heart with music and art
The Heal My HeART program provides patients with a creative outlet that allows them to express their feelings and help them regain physical and emotional health with a new sense of optimism.
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Nurses do research too, and here’s why it matters
Think “scientific research” and one may imagine doctors, Ph.D.s or technicians toiling away in the lab. But many people don’t realize that nurses do research as well.
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UCLA applauds passage of agreement providing new services for veterans
The agreement between UCLA and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs creates a stronger academic affiliation between the campus and the VA.
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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.
- Wednesday, September 28, 2016