Since its founding, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has produced analytical research to shape public policy and public opinion on labor issues.
Heather Maynard has been named a 2018 recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, which honors excellence in organic chemistry.
This donation from alumnus A. Barry Cappello will provide scholarship support and extensive training opportunities for students interested in becoming trial attorneys.
James Gelvin suggests volunteers are drawn to a value system that asserts aggressive machismo, disparages work, and sustains the impulse for immediate gratification.
Just in time for back-to-school season, the Hammer Museum screens the classic dance film, “Stomp the Yard,” about a dancer who finds his place in college through stepping.
The study suggests a new possible framework for treating people with familial hypercholesterolemia, an inherited condition characterized by extremely high levels of LDL, the so-called “bad cholesterol.”
Under the direction of professor Ingrid Eagly, the students helped immigrant mothers and children detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center prepare for their interviews.
Becoming a leader of the 35,000 UCLA staffers was a natural step for Walen Ngo, the son of Vietnamese refugees, who has felt a lifelong dedication to helping others.
UCLA researchers’ study using zebrafish shows how the disease turns a repair mechanism into one that damages nerve cells. The findings could lead to treatments to prevent nerve damage in leprosy and other diseases.
Ninez Ponce, principal investigator for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, joins the 15-person group that advises the center on health care-related issues.