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NPR spoke with UCLA ecologist Morgan Tingley about how birds may provide valuable data on the toxic effects of wildfires on both animals and humans. Tingley, a leader in the burgeoning field of smoke ecology, joins other scientists in rethinking traditional approaches to studying smoke, especially as the world experiences more wildfires. Read more about UCLA in today’s Fortune, Los Angeles Times and other outlets.

UCLA researchers found associations between the severity of maltreatment and thickness, surface area and volume in some parts of the brain.

In a faculty brimming with brilliant people, Terence Tao — the “Mozart of Math” — remains one of the sharpest minds at UCLA. A conversation.

Find out what UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg has learned from studying Easter Island’s famed statuary for four decades.

Professor Jorja Leap is on a mission to make social science research more of a spectator sport.

The son of immigrants, Kwame Granderson came to UCLA and discovered his passion for the written word. Now he’s passing that on — in a most meaningful way.

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Yvonne Caro Caro is now starring on a very different kind of stage, helping to shape the physicians of the future — one performance at a time.

From cultivating belonging to championing excellence and leading with integrity, three Bruins embody the renewed set of values at the heart of UCLA.

Rene Ong is looking for an invisible particle as old as time. If he can find even the traces it leaves behind, we would be one step closer to understanding how the universe really works.

The sudden shock of losing my eyesight sent me reeling. Until the UCLA community rallied around me to illuminate the path ahead.

They met as undergrads at UCLA. Bonded as budding entrepreneurs. Now, these young UCLA alumni are mining their dorm-room dreams to show they (literally) mean business.

Facing incredible hurdles, Bruin scholars are shining a light on the facts of the federal government’s crackdown on immigration.

The art and editorial contributors to the Fall 2026 edition of UCLA Magazine.

An overview of the stories in UCLA Magazine’s Fall issue.

Our faculty members excel in their professional fields. But sometimes what they do outside the classroom is even more revealing of who they are. 

Our chancellor’s signature mantra is, “We Are One UCLA.” As we display in the examples below, chances are you’re only a few connections away from every other Bruin you’ve ever heard of.

Why investing now in a future we may not see fully realized is the only way to preserve an exemplary institution.

In his new book, Pulitzer Prize–winning UCLA geographer and physiologist Jared Diamond offers a timely, evidence-driven analysis of leaders throughout history. Who succeeds, who fails — and why?

The Guardian reported on Southern California’s unusually severe fall heat wave, with temperatures running well above historical averages. UCLA professor V. Kelly Turner said Friday’s heat was nearly 7 degrees hotter than the previous record for Oct. 2, while UCLA atmospheric physicist David Neelin said that although individual events are difficult to attribute directly to climate change, a warmer climate makes heat waves more likely, more intense and longer lasting. Read more about UCLA in today’s New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times’ “De Los” and others.

The latest California Latino GDP report shows that Latinos propelled the state’s economic growth in 2024.

Writing in the California Post, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk highlighted the critical role universities play in developing U.S. Olympic athletes and called for preserving a system that pairs elite competition with educational opportunity. With UCLA set to host the Olympic Village in 2028, Frenk warned that mounting financial pressures on college athletics could particularly threaten women’s and Olympic sports and narrow opportunities for future student-athletes. Read more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, Mercury News and others.

The former chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design is remembered as a rigorous and generous teacher.

With some new faces — and familiar expectations — the Bruins and Coach Cori Close get down to work after their historic title season.

CBC Radio covered a new study by UCLA neurobiologist Duncan Leitch and his colleagues that found the Surinam toad — commonly called a star-fingered toad — uses its fingertips to sense tiny movements in the water made by nearby prey. “Frogs have four fingers on their hands,” Leitch told “Quirks & Quarks” host Bob McDonald. “Those [fingers] split into four different lobes on each of the fingertips, and then, subsequently, each of those lobes split four times again in sort of this fractural pattern.” Read more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and others.

UCLA researchers show for the first time that human brain assembloids can reproduce the hallmark electrical changes seen during general anesthesia.