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UCLA gymnastics coach Valorie Kondos Field to retire after 2019 season
A former professional ballerina with no previous sports or athletic coaching experience, Kondos Field led the Bruins to all seven of their NCAA championships.
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As students return to campus, UCLA gets ready to prep them for Bruin life
True Bruin Welcome will feature orientations, information sessions and dozens of chances to bond.
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In new book, professor explores the benefits of physical play like martial arts
Q&A with Janet O’Shea, UCLA professor of dance, about “Risk, Failure, Play: What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training.”
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Hocus pocus with a robotic focus
UCLA roboticist Dennis Hong and his robot magician, MAGI, shine on the Netflix show “Magic for Humans.”
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Decades later, man meets the UCLA doctor who saved his life
Maurice Elias reunited with Dr. Richard Stiehm, who 48 years ago used a then-experimental treatment, to cure him of “bubble baby” syndrome.
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Plans to change federal Medi-Cal funding could force some California counties to slash health coverage
Counties such as San Bernardino, Riverside and Fresno could see public health care take a bigger bite of their budgets, the study reports.
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Researchers find adult stem cell characteristics in aggressive cancers from different tissues
The study could lead to new treatments for a range of advanced epithelial cancers such as lung, prostate and bladder cancers.
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UCLA researchers develop mechanism for characterizing function of rare tumor cells
“With this type of measurement tool, you could potentially figure out which drugs would work best for each person before even starting treatment,” said UCLA professor Dino Di Carlo.
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First CDC guidelines for treating children’s concussions offer valuable tools for doctors, UCLA researchers report
The recommendations are based on a comprehensive review of the science related to pediatric concussions.
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We have liftoff of student-built satellites
With the successful launch of their ELFIN satellites, UCLA students’ work studying space weather is just beginning.
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In memoriam: ‘Polly’ Nooter Roberts, art historian and scholar of African art
The UCLA professor of world arts and cultures/dance was celebrated for her sensitive and innovative translation of cultural experience into museum exhibitions. She was 58.
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UCLA-led team develops new system for tracking chemicals in the brain
The idea for the project began 20 years ago, when UCLA professor Anne Andrews was researching serotonin and realized that the then-state-of-the-art methods for monitoring neurochemicals couldn’t provide data with sufficient quality.
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UCLA scientist gives couple hope while searching for a cure for paralysis
Mark Pollock and his partner, Simone George, met UCLA’s Reggie Edgerton and discarded advice from doctors who had discouraged their pursuit of a cure.
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10th UCLA Volunteer Day to go global, make it easier for staff and faculty to join
Thousands of Bruins will spread across Los Angeles — and this year sites around the world — for the annual day of service on Sept. 29.
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This summer has been the hottest ever at UCLA
Summer of 2018 included the hottest temperature recorded on the Westwood campus: 111 degrees.
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UCLA brings its best to the worldwide Bruin community with online Alumni Day
The virtual version of Alumni Day will feature most of the same events and activities of the on-campus, in-person version.
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UCLA students launch project that’s out of this world
For the past five years, more than 250 UCLA undergraduates have designed and built a small satellite that will launch into orbit to study space weather.
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UCLA’s Michael Grunstein wins 2018 Lasker Award for medical research
The distinguished professor of biological chemistry, who shares the honor with C. David Allis of Rockefeller University, was recognized for his groundbreaking research on gene expression.
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UCLA’s impact on California economy is $11.06 billion
Chancellor Gene Block said the new report “allows us to demonstrate how every dollar invested in UCLA pays substantial dividends back to people throughout our state.”
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When the theme is collaboration, labs get moving
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine moved 33 labs into the renovated South Tower of the Center for Health Sciences.
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Brains of people with schizophrenia are less reactive to social rewards like smiling faces, study shows
The findings provide additional evidence that the processing of social rewards by people with schizophrenia is disrupted, researchers say.
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UCLA ranked No. 1 public university by U.S. News & World Report
The publication also ranked UCLA first for economic diversity and as the best public university for veterans.
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Journalist Jorge Ramos talks about UCLA and his immigrant roots
Facebook video by the award-winning Univision anchor features a recent UCLA graduate whose immigrant father works on campus.
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Changes in the architecture around cancer cells can fuel their spread
UCLA researchers have found that an often overlooked component of a cell, the extracellular matrix, can influence how much sugar the cell consumes and its migratory behavior.
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Brain’s support cells may play a central role in repetitive behaviors related to OCD
Findings from a UCLA-led study may ultimately lead to new ways to treat psychiatric disorders, including obsessive compulsive disorder, at their root.
- Thursday, September 20, 2018