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KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Press Play” spoke with UCLA law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw about the life and legacy of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who died this week at age 92. Crenshaw, a leading scholar on race and feminism who knew Steinem well, said Steinem was always clear that her feminism had been shaped by Black women. She also reflected on the connections Steinem drew between attacks on reproductive rights, trans people, immigrants and Black people. Read more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, CBS News and others.

Approximately 20,000 are eligible for the pass, which provides unlimited access to 13 major Southern California transit systems.

LAist reported on a new UCLA study that estimates nearly 6,000 unhoused people live within a mile of 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues, more than three times an earlier estimate from Los Angeles County. UCLA’s Randall Kuhn and colleagues calculated the figure using the county’s homeless count and potential Olympics security perimeters. Jessie Chien, a research data analyst with UCLA’s California Center for Population Research who assembled the estimates, said the findings highlight how many people could potentially be affected. Read more about UCLA in today’s New York Times, Variety and others.

Eight bilingual performances, which are free to the public, will coincide with National Hispanic Heritage Month.

The findings uncover metabolic and physical cues that influence which cell types radial glia produce in the developing human cortex.

A new report from the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment chronicles a year of union growth, worker activism and mounting challenges.

New Bruins head football coach Bob Chesney talks about turning a team into a brood, why he loves reading a room and the coolest thing he’s done since moving to L.A.

The Associated Press reported on the deadly flash flooding that swept through the Grand Canyon over the weekend, killing at least two people and forcing the rescue of nearly 80 others. UCLA hydroclimatologist Park Williams talked about how a strong El Niño this year may have contributed to the floods. Read more about UCLA in today’s Santa Monica Daily Press, The Conversation and other outlets.

Drawing clues from the ring’s inscription, UCLA professor Catherine Bonesho rebuts previous scholarship about the 2,000-year-old relic.

UCLA Health team’s review of six popular peptides finds little evidence and potentially concerning safety issues.

The New York Times reported on the LZ Dark Matter Experiment, which detected a particle interaction that researchers say does not fit the profile of other known interactions, though they are not claiming to have detected dark matter. Alvine Kamaha, a UCLA physicist who helped oversee construction of the detector, compared the decades-long effort to identify the elusive substance to “looking for a needle in a haystack.” The detector, located nearly a mile underground to shield it from radiation and other interference, has since collected substantially more data that researchers hope will shed light on the mysterious signal. (Kamaha was also quoted by Reuters.) Read more about UCLA in today’s USA Today, CNN and others.

For more than two decades, Gore's innovative approach to library instruction connected and inspired students, faculty and researchers across the university.

UCLA's Alvine Kamaha and her colleagues on the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed an event that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs.

Check out Newsroom’s latest on the UCLA faculty and staff news — from breakthroughs, honors and milestones to memorable moments — that is shaping our campus and community.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on newly released data showing that ICE arrests are continuing at high levels across California — even as the agency has moved away from the high-profile raids seen last year. UCLA professor Paul Ong said the agency appears to be shifting toward arrests in places where agents can avoid public scrutiny, such as courthouses and farms, a strategy he believes may explain the recent uptick in arrests nationally and in Los Angeles. Ong also noted that recent changes to immigrants’ legal protections have expanded the number of people vulnerable to arrest and deportation. Read more about UCLA in today’s New York Times, BBC and others.

A Bruin guide to this month’s most intriguing events at UCLA.

Join the reserve on Sept. 12 for its third annual bioblitz, a Pokémon-style hunt to spot wildlife in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Evenings these past few months may have been a bit quieter, but UCLA is still busy discovering, creating, exploring and connecting

The New York Times’ wellness newsletter explored why friendships are so important and how to sustain them as busy adults. Jaimie Arona Krems, director of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, said the concept of tracking friendships — as one does on a fitness app — isn’t too far off the mark. While the standard health advice is to “eat your veggies, drink your water and get your sleep,” she said, “I’m shocked that friends aren’t on there, too.” Krems and others suggest planning ahead to connect with friends in odd pockets of time and by using different technology platforms that work for them. Read more about UCLA in today’s Politico, Spectrum News 1 and others.

The UCLA Global Advisors Council has named 17 professors as winners of the 2026 Global Education and Global Research awards.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers and international partners will test existing Ebola vaccines against the new strain.

City News Service reported that the number of California students experiencing homelessness rose 10% from the 2018–19 school year to a record 298,254 students in 2024–25, according to a UCLA study released Wednesday. Southern California is home to seven of the 10 school districts with the highest numbers of students experiencing homelessness, according to the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. “These numbers are particularly concerning given the extensive evidence documenting the harmful effects of housing instability on children’s development, health and educational outcomes,” said Grace Kim, a research analyst at the center and lead author of the report. (UCLA’s Joseph Bishop was also quoted. Also: EdSource and KTTV-TV.) Read more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, NPR and others.

With the nation facing a critical blood shortage, UCLA and 17 other universities will compete for a great cause — and a $1 million grant.

AIAN adults were more likely to delay care and had higher rates of adverse childhood experiences and suicidal thoughts than California adults overall.

Future-ready students, forward-looking research: The new department brings a humanistic approach to AI and other emerging technologies.