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Students are 'stewards of memory' for Holocaust survivors

She was a 93-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where the air was tainted with the smell of death. In 1945, she managed to escape from the Nazis into a forest when camp guards led her and other prisoners on a final death...

UCLA Library — thanks to students, there's an app for that

Students in Simul8 design and maintain apps for UCLA Library. The team functions like a start-up and provides students the opportunity to apply their computer coding knowledge in real-world settings. When Kevin Rundblad was hired in September...

The promise of stem cells

At the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, more than 200 faculty members are working to translate the promise of stem cells into viable treatments for some of society’s most vexing medical conditions.

Video: 1948 mechanical computer at UCLA

This 1948 short film by Popular Science magazine screened in movie theaters before Paramount Pictures features. It shows a "differential analyzer" in use by UCLA engineering students and researchers.

A sovereign wealth fund can save UK from market meltdown

Roger E. A. Farmer is distinguished professor of economics at UCLA and currently Senior Houblon Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. This op-ed appreared in the Financial Times on July 18, 2013.   Ben Bernanke suggested in June that the...

Obama’s former aide shares glimpses of life with president

Reggie Love (at right) finds his shot blocked by President Barack Obama on a basketball court at St. Bartholomew Church in New York City on Sept. 23, 2009. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. What was it like to spend...

Real Madrid to train at UCLA

One of soccer's most storied teams, Spain's Real Madrid, will train on UCLA's top-notch field this summer, from July 29 through Aug. 5. Practices are private and closed to the public.

The promise of stem cells

Shown above are some of the stem cells derived by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. To see more, click here.  Stem cells are the body’s “master” cells....

Genetic screening: Every newborn a patient

Stefan Timmermans is a professor and chair of the UCLA department of sociology and faculty associate with the Institute for Society and Genetics. He is the author of the book "Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening." This op-ed...

New dean selected for continuing education and UCLA Extension

Wayne Smutz, executive director of Pennsylvania State University’s World Campus and associate vice president for academic outreach, has been selected as the new dean of continuing education and UCLA Extension, subject to approval by interim action of the UC regents.

Is sexual addiction the real deal?

"These findings would represent a major challenge to existing theories of a sex 'addiction,' " said UCLA's Nicole Prause, who studied the brain responses of individuals with hypersexual problems.

How well-designed cities keep us healthy

In the current American Journal of Public Health, UCLA's Dr. Richard Jackson discusses advances in community design that help make our cities better for our health.

Napolitano appointed president of UC

The University of California Board of Regents today appointed Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a two-term governor of Arizona, as the 20th president of the University of California.   Napolitano, the...

Chair of UC Board of Regents comments on Napolitano appointment

Bruce Varner, chair of the UC Board of Regents, issued this letter regarding the appointment of Janet Napolitano as president of the University of California:    Dear UC Colleagues,   As chairman of the UC Board of Regents, I am...

A constitutional right to health care

More than half of the world's countries have some constitutional protection of a right to public health and medical care for their citizens -- but not the U.S., a new study shows.

UC Regents appoint Janet Napolitano as the university's first woman president

Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a two-term governor of Arizona, will become the 20th president of the University of California. She succeeds Mark G. Yudof, who steered the university through the depths of California's financial crisis that led to sharp cutbacks in state support for public higher education.

Got housing woes? The Hammer offers consumers help

Olga Koumoundouros's Dream Home Resource Center is located in the UCLA Hammer Museum's Lobby Gallery, which is free to enter. Photos by Marianne Williams. When we go to art museums, it’s usually to marvel at beautiful artworks or learn...

This fungus cell only looks like the 405 freeway

"It's complex, beautiful and so dynamic," says UCLA's Marcus Roper of the traffic-like flow of nuclei through a fungus cell. Roper has two studies out highlighting cells' ingenuity.
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