A team of engineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in partnership with Southern California Edison, has received a $1.62 million grant to build a hybrid energy storage system.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released the California Health Interview Survey for both 2013 and 2014, which contain data about a wide range of health care topics from surveys of more than 20,000 participants each year.
A new research protocol developed by a UCLA team led by public health professor William McCarthy is being recommended by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use by other researchers.
UCLA associate professor Benjamin Ellingson is the 2015 recipient of a research scholar grant of $790,000 from the American Cancer Society to further develop a new imaging technique for the early identification of brain cancer tumors.
Spot celebrities at the third annual Athletes vs. Cancer football game, hosted by Matt Barnes and Snoop Dogg, on Sunday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m. at UCLA's Drake Stadium.
Expanding density incentives, streamlining site plan review and altering financing rules are three key ways to create more affordable housing, Paul Habibi writes in the Los Angeles Times.
Students learning Japanese are enjoying a collection of new reading materials at the East Asian Library that includes manga. The 500-volume collection is the result of efforts by librarians and administrators at UCLA’s Asia Institute.
In conjunction with the exhibition “Making Strange,” the Rangoli Dance Company will perform a late afternoon dance program 4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 30 at the Fowler Museum.
Café Med, at UCLA’s Center for Health Sciences, will reopen on Monday, Aug. 17, with the introduction of a new area serving sushi, El Pollo Loco, sandwiches and the grill.
Sociologist Edward T. Walker writes in the New York Times that rich corporations are leveraging social media to get customers and ordinary citizens to act as de facto lobbyists.
Bhagwan Chowdhry, professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is serving as the inaugural visiting scholar at Stellar Development Foundation.
Todd Yeates, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the 2016 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Delano Award for Computational Biosciences.
"Hawaiian Plant Life: Vegetation and Flora" (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014) by Phil Rundel, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and two co-authors won the 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award of Excellence in Natural Science from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association.
A planet 100 light-years away that resembles a young Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of astronomers that includes six UCLA scientists.
Professor Melvin Rogers writes in the Atlantic that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bestselling new book about racism and African American identity fails to recognize the importance of hope.