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Spanning medicine, math and nanomaterials, support for campus scientific studies has grown almost 40% in five years.

Courts in Texas and Pennsylvania sided with arguments made in reports prepared by members of the project.

The director of the Keck Observatory writes about how the UCLA astrophysicist overcame the doubters en route to her Nobel Prize.

The findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The new platform, called SwabSeq, can pool thousands of individual test samples and return accurate results in less than a day.

In a survey by UCLA and United Food and Commercial Workers OUTreach, most said their local unions take action to protect LGBTQ members.

Librarians and staff will share their expertise at events designed to help students, faculty and others flourish in their work and advance knowledge. 

Movie studios can expect to lose up to $130 million per film when authentic diversity is absent from their storytelling, a UCLA report shows.

Ghez, who received the prize for her research into black holes, is the eighth UCLA faculty member to be named a Nobel laureate.

The group, whose 11 partners include seven UC campuses, will work to overcome challenges and barriers to prevention, treatment and vaccination.

Dust from as far away as Saudi Arabia is carried by winds to the Himalayan snowpack, where it accelerates glacial warming and snowmelt, scientists say.

A UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy report tracks the state’s history of restricting and expanding the franchise.

Based on research in the California Health Interview Survey, UCLA researchers found the trend was especially pronounced among young adults.

A new UCLA report recommends that state and local officials develop plans to retrain members of the Latino workforce for jobs in the digital economy.

Economists say the positive outlook is partly due to consumers and businesses quickly adapting to virtual commerce.

A new update from campus leadership outlines the progress that has been made and highlights several new initiatives.

This year the public lecture-academic class will virtually bring together 30 leading minds from across campus. Class is in session beginning Oct. 5.

The new partnership will help grow startup companies based on novel aerospace technologies developed at UCLA and elsewhere.

The team will investigate the mechanisms of treatment resistance, laying the groundwork for new and improved combination therapies.

Research brief: Before the ACA, a new study shows, 35.6% of the lowest-income families experienced burdensome costs, but this fell to 23.7% post-ACA.

The late Bernice Wenzel and Wendell “Jeff” Jeffrey, both UCLA professors, were well known for their longtime commitment to the university.

In pregnant mice, the maternal gut microbiata plays a key role in regulating which genes are activated in the growing brain, UCLA biologists say.

The gift is the largest ever contribution that a tribe has made to a law school and one of the biggest in history from a tribe to a university.

Virtual event brings together leaders from universities in California, China, Singapore and Australia.

Research brief: In mice, a neural sequence in the brain's striatum acts like falling dominoes, allowing them to precisely measure short intervals.