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Kelly Lytle Hernández was announced today as one of two 2018 Local Heroes honored by KCET.

An experiment on the latest SpaceX launch will measure how microgravity affects the brain.

The UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is hosting “Botany of the Holidays” on Friday, Dec. 7.

A report by UCLA, UC Berkeley and California Food Policy Advocates found that the state could lose up to $1.67 billion in federal benefits.

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The American Academy of Nurses has recognized four nurse practitioners from the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program.

Lauren McCarthy was selected to participate in the 2019 American Arts Incubator program.

Janet Mentes, professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, assumed the presidency of the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence.

The gift is from the estate of alumna Mary Lou Steinmetz, continuing her family’s long history of support for the campus.

The free event, which is from 4 to 6 p.m., will be in the Charles E. Young Research Library’s main conference room.

The study is the most comprehensive published effort to date to identify the source of neurodegeneration across species.

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Gilbert Gee, professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received the 2018 Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum.

For the last two years volunteers have done work restoring and maintaining the 15-acre garden.

Only 254 organizations received the designation, which recognizes leaders in using technology to improve patient care.

From Dec. 3 to 7, all faculty and staff can receive 20 percent off in campus stores and participate in daily drawings and special offers.

Martin Luther King Jr. once hailed Lawson as the world’s leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.

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The United States should provide resources for the mitigation of a possible opioid epidemic in the same way the country provides resources for the ‘war on drugs’ in Mexico, researchers recommend.

Jones, associate director of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, received the UCLA Medal for her work to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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The six-year-long study about endocrine treatment is contrary to expectations.

William Worger has made digital copies of ‘Mighty Man’ and ‘Tiger Ingwe,’ which the South African government used to indirectly support apartheid, available to the public.

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Melissa Reider-Demer, nurse practitioner who specializes in neurology in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, received the Nurse of the Year award from Press Ganey.