Grant makes access to a UCLA education easier for underrepresented students
As a partner institution of the CaliforniansForAll College Corps, UCLA will select 150 students for fellowships.
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Bunche Center for African American Studies receives $5 million from state of California
The funds will support UCLA students, policy reports and big-data projects such as the Million Dollar Hoods initiative.
Concussions and kids: Project co-led by UCLA gets $10 million grant from NIH
CARE4Kids, a nationwide study by a consortium of academic medical centers, aims to identify biomarkers that predict delayed recovery in children.
$6.2 million NIH grant to support UCLA study of how COVID-19 causes multiple organ failure
“We need to figure out how this is happening in order to develop treatments to stop it,” said UCLA’s Arjun Deb.
STROBE nano-imaging center receives $22.5 million renewal from NSF
The center, co-led by UCLA and headquartered at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is developing the microscopes of tomorrow.
UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center receives $5 million CIRM grant for research training program
The five-year award from California’s stem cell agency will help prepare young scientists and physicians to become leaders in the regenerative medicine field.
UCLA receives $13 million contract to expand COVID-19 testing
The tests use SwabSeq, a technology developed in 2020 at UCLA, to deliver results in less than 24 hours.
Four UCLA research centers receive grants from California 100
New statewide initiative focuses on making the state’s next century more innovative, sustainable and equitable.
UCLA-led team awarded more than $5 million for HIV prevention projects
NIH-funded grants will aid interventions that improve antiretroviral medication usage.
UCLA team awarded almost $3 million for safe K-12 return-to-school effort
The NIH-funded project aims to increase COVID-19 testing access and uptake for underserved and vulnerable populations.
Group led by UCLA professor awarded $8.8 million for HIV intervention using mobile app
The NIH-funded project aims to prevent infection among high-risk transgender women who face barriers to in-person interventions.
$1.3 million grant will help UCLA advance workforce equity and empowerment
The Worker Equity Initiative will explore how government agencies and their partners help workers thrive in quality careers.
UCLA to launch new social justice curriculum with $5 million grant from Mellon Foundation
Courses will pair social justice teaching with community engagement and instruction in data literacy, statistics and computational research methods.
UCLA to establish archive on policing and mass incarceration in Los Angeles
The project is supported by a $3.65 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Six UCLA arts projects receive Getty Foundation grants
The financial awards will cover research and planning for “Pacific Standard Time” projects, which will debut in 2024.
UCLA awarded $25 million to advance HIV research for women and children
The grant comes from the National Institutes of Health to the UCLA branch of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network.
UCLA draws record $1.4 billion in research funding
Spanning medicine, math and nanomaterials, support for campus scientific studies has grown almost 40% in five years.
UCLA, aerospace accelerator Starburst win federal grant to launch innovation hub
The new partnership will help grow startup companies based on novel aerospace technologies developed at UCLA and elsewhere.
Researchers receive $2.9M to study intersection of technology, power and society
The grant to the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry comes from the Australia-based Minderoo Foundation.
Chemist Paula Diaconescu to lead new NSF Center for Integrated Catalysis
The center, funded by a $1.8 million NSF grant, will develop the fundamental chemistry needed to prepare synthetic plastics in a novel way.
UCLA researchers receive grant to study gun violence
Ninez Ponce and Michael Rodriguez will investigate risk factors for gun suicide and urban gun violence.
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics awarded $25M renewal from NSF
Through the institute, mathematicians work collaboratively with a broad range of scholars to address today's biggest scientific challenges.
UCLA, UCSB share $23.7 million grant to study biologically based polymers
The collaboration aims to advance the use of microbes for sustainable production of new plastics.
UC to lead group awarded $25M by NSF to launch quantum computing institute
Researchers will work to create super-powerful computers that harness the mysterious behavior of particles at the subatomic level.
Researchers use stem cells to model the immune response to COVID-19
Two members of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center have received a grant for work that could be helpful in developing a vaccine.