grants

Gaining a better understanding the risks and benefits of antidepressant strategies in older adults could improve the quality of life of seniors.

The two-year, $2.15 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will fund research by April Pyle, Melissa Spencer and Huan Meng.

New five-year grant supports biomedical research that accelerates the translation of laboratory discoveries into more effective treatments for patients.

A professor of chemistry and biochemistry as well as materials science and engineering, Weiss will explore the development of wearable external and internal sensor arrays for personalized health monitoring.

The initiative will train a new generation to help achieve a set of ambitious U.N.-approved goals to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance education and make cities more sustainable.

The visual arts grant will support the implementation of the exhibition “HOME—So Different, So Appealing."

Funds will support the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms project, or EPIC, which will examine students’ changing learning styles and train faculty and graduate students in effective teaching methods.

One of UCLA's major libraries for rare books and manuscripts, the Clark will digitize 300 manuscripts produced in Great Britain between 1601 and 1800.

The $1.75 million grant will be used to create a toolkit to analyze genomics data, allowing researchers to understand how threatened populations respond to changes in habitats and climate.

The UCLA Law Fellows Program, which prepares high-potential undergraduate students and college graduates from diverse backgrounds for careers in law, has been awarded a $125,000 two-year grant.

UCLA social welfare professor Jorja Leap has been awarded a $200,000, two-year funding commitment from the California Wellness Foundation to create the UCLA Luskin Watts Center for Nonprofit Management.

The platform will be designed to use information about users’ previous asthma attacks to alert them when conditions might be right for another one.

Researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research have received a $400,000 grant to find out why individuals who receive both Medi-Cal and Medicare benefits are rejecting the new state-managed health care pilot program.

A $570,000 grant will allow a team led by Edward Leamer of the UCLA Anderson School of Management to study the effects of a higher minimum wage by evaluating the ordinance in Los Angeles.

The $2.3 million award will support work to develop methods for recording the activity of intact neural networks in living animals.

The aim of the study is to develop new magnetic resonance imaging technologies to assess the impact of environmental pollution.

Investigating how the mammalian olfactory sense can swiftly discriminate between thousands of odors.

The Okawa Foundation awarded UCLA professor of computer science Miryung Kim a research grant of $84,000 to support her research project titled “Toward Interactive Debugging of Big Data Analytics.” 

A team of engineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, in partnership with Southern California Edison, has received a $1.62 million grant to build a hybrid energy storage system.

Dr. Aichi Chien, an associate professor of radiological sciences, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bee Foundation to advance her research on the computational analysis of brain aneurysms.

The award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will fund a phase I/II clinical trial that will enroll 10 patients with an immunodeficiency disorder at three different U.S. locations.

The three-year grant will fund an intensive treatment program for service members suffering from mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Behavioral health intervention developed at UCLA will help female veterans and their families at new facility in San Pedro and more facilities in Long Beach.

UCLA’s Life Sciences has been awarded a four-year $2.4 million federal grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance and transform undergraduate education.

From a digital literacy program in Ecuador's rainforest to enhancing math education in Lusaka, Zambia, UCLA's 2014 Global Citizens Fellows demonstrate what can be done with $5,000 and one summer.