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Advances in genetics and computing helped biologist Tom Smith determine why seedcrackers’ bills vary in size.

Teeter, who is lecturer in American Indian studies and archaeology curator at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, received the Honored One award.

Achuta Kadambi research focus aims to give robots extraordinary vision capabilities beyond what human eyes are capable of.

Aaswath Raman will receive the inaugural Nelson “Buck” Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy.

Participants in the UCLA program get help changing diets, increasing exercise and adopting new habits.

The life scientists have provided the first cell “atlas” of the hippocampus — the part of the brain that helps regulate learning and memory — when it is affected by traumatic brain injury.

Highlights from National Geographic, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Inside Higher Ed, La Opinión and others.

University employees affected by the wildfires can receive accommodations from their benefit plans.

The event featured technology journalists Katie Benner, Nellie Bowles, Sheera Frenkel and Farhad Manjoo.

No research was lost at the La Kretz Center Field Station structure, but the wildfire’s effect on the broader habitat will affect several ongoing studies.

The 24-year-old entrepreneur invented a process that breaks the chemical bonds between plastic molecules, turning material that would otherwise be nonrecyclable into valuable chemicals.

This is the final week of University of Californina employees to choose their benefits for 2019.

Prospective students may request to extend the fall undergraduate application deadline and receive fee waivers.

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Dr. Hans David Ulmert, member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, is being honored by the Society for Basic Urologic Research.

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Joshua Groban to fill the vacancy created when Justice Kathryn Werdegar retired in 2017.

It includes two plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and Maria Bello’s virtual reality presentation, “The Sun Ladies Project.”

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck featured Sarah T. Roberts in “The Cleaners” — their movie about the anonymous people who screen objectionable content on social media.

The study suggests that lung cancer can be detected earlier, when it is much easier to treat.

Martin Monti received the International Guiseppe Sciacca award for using ultrasounds to stimulate brain activity in people with serious brain injuries.

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The $3.5 million, five-year grant will go toward creating a center dedicated to developing an effective and affordable blood-based, cancer-screening test.

Researchers and Los Angeles’ chief sustainability officer will meet at the Hammer Museum to discuss ways to create healthier communities and increase sustainability.

The partnership will enable the city to manage water supplies more sustainably, become more energy efficient and increase use of clean energy.

Affording a group its constitutional rights should not be perceived as an institutional endorsement of the group’s message.