UCLA to lead project to help L.A. County cope with extreme heat
Practices to protect public health, including high-risk groups, are featured in an expansive program.
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Can L.A.’s car-free Olympics help the climate long-term?
The city could go carless for two weeks, but UCLA’s Jacob Wasserman questions whether it can build for more lasting changes.
Venting your frustrations can make friends like you better – if you do it right
Psychologists find it isn’t cathartic, but it can strengthen bonds that might pay off in the future.
Molecule restores cognition and memory in Alzheimer’s disease mouse study
A compound jump-started memory circuitry in mice and could treat several disorders if proven effective in humans.
Researchers discover new mechanism to cool buildings while saving energy
A low-cost approach regulates heat with common building materials that absorb or radiate heat.
Solutions to adapt to climate change
In a new study, UCLA researchers analyze the most severe climate-driven public health risks in California.
L.A. County’s unhoused population faces high levels of discrimination, violence
The health risks for people experiencing homelessness go beyond challenges inherent to living without shelter, UCLA researchers and colleagues found.
‘This is about hope’: Scientists offer climate solutions for sustainability in California
The researchers drew connections between existing sustainability challenges and encroaching climate change challenges.
UCLA comet discoverer turns her eye toward Earth’s potentially hazardous neighbors
As the NEOWISE spacecraft is shut down, its UCLA project leader readies NASA’s next study on near-Earth objects.
UCLA Fulbright awardees will soon depart for global destinations
Six recent graduates and one faculty member will conduct research and promote cultural exchanges.
Election 360: Kamala Harris’ campaign and the ‘war against woke’ backlash
UCLA’s Kimberlé Crenshaw, an expert on civil rights and constitutional law, weighs in on how the right and left view the candidate.
Layered superconductor coaxed to show unusual properties with potential for quantum computing
Research brief: The new material retained properties under a much higher magnetic field than the theoretical limit of a conventional superconductor.
UCLA increases number of California residents and underrepresented students admitted for fall 2024
Admissions of first-year California students increased 2.5% to 8,795, with 37% coming from historically underrepresented groups.
UCLA receives $2 million to develop regenerative medicine therapies for spinal cord injury
The grant from The Marcus Foundation will support research on restoring sensory function and feeling.
Wildfire smoke can bring ‘lingering symptoms for months’
Smoke can spread 10-15 times farther than wildfires, posing big risks for vulnerable people.
UCLA engineers become 6-time RoboCup soccer world champions
Team RoMeLa’s robot athletes knocked out four opponents in six matches at an international tournament held in the Netherlands.
Fowler Museum at UCLA permanently returns cultural objects to Australia’s Warumungu community
The repatriated objects — including clubs, picks, knives, sheaths, adzes and a boomerang — will go back to their Aboriginal owners in the Northern Territory.
California adults who need long-term support programs hurt by lack of access to resources
A new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research examines health and well-being of older adults and adults with disabilities.
UCLA, UC Berkeley Extension receive $12 million from Scott Galloway to help non-traditional students pursue careers
Galloway, an alumnus of both universities, has been outspoken about the impact his UC education had on his life.
Watch: UCLA constitutional law experts review the Supreme Court’s most recent term
Legal scholars analyze the implications of the presidential immunity case and other decisions.
Believing heat records and not your local microclimate
UCLA climate expert Daniel Swain discusses the heat wave that has baked baked more than nine-tenths of California's land.
Robert Swerdlow named UCLA vice chancellor for legal affairs and chief campus counsel
A member of the campus’s legal affairs team since 2018 and a longtime litigator in private practice, Swerdlow will begin his new role Aug. 1.
Election 360: Election misinformation on social media
After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, social media rumors quickly transformed into conspiracy theories on both sides of the political spectrum.
‘Predictable and preventable’ heat deaths in prisons
Incarcerated people are especially vulnerable to heat, experts say, but new protections exclude prisons.
2023 Rolling Hills Estates landslide likely began the winter before
The progressive landslide seemed to come out of nowhere but took months to develop into a catastrophe.