Search

The UCLA Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross Campus Affairs is opening applications to two funding opportunities.

Kelly Lytle Hernández is being awarded the 2018 Freedom Now Award from the Los Angeles Community Action Network.

David, Minda and Daniel Streamer defied the odds and circumstances that have made American Indians the least-represented group on college campuses nationwide.

The team performed a staggering 363 kidney transplants in 2017, more than any other transplant center in the United States, according to data.

Highlights from KTTV-TV, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Time, Mic and others.

Their method joins a semiconductor layer and a metal electrode layer without the atomic-level defects that typically occur as part of the process commonly used now.

Highlights from New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, PBS, Chronicle of Higher Education and others.

Each year, scores of UCLA students volunteer through Project SPELL — for Students for Progress in Employee Language Learning — to teach English as a second language to employees.

His citation read, in part, “With elegant equations and imaginative models, you have transformed our understanding of cause and effect, probability, and uncertainty.”

Professor Judea Pearl writes about how the current data-crunching approach to machine learning misses an essential element of human intelligence.

Highlights from Wall Street Journal, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post and others.

Forbes ranks UCLA Health No. 43 in the nation among all industries; and Becker’s Healthcare lists it among the 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare for 2018.

“Our physicians exemplify — every day — UCLA Health’s mission of delivering leading-edge patient care, research and education,” said Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health.

Sequoia Thompson, 33, graduates this month with a degree in psychology and a minor in LGBTQ studies. Her goal is to become a clinical psychologist and work with queer black youth.

Highlights from New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, MSNBC, The Scientist and others.

The awards, which total nearly $2.3 million, will support work by professors at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

A detailed view of its core may lead to the development of targeted drugs.

The streamlined process is part of a campus-wide civic engagement strategy, and it builds on several years of successful voter registration drives.

Some 200 UCLA medical students received their diplomas Friday, June 1, in Dickson Court at the 64th annual Hippocratic Oath Ceremony for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Instructors from the American Heart Association taught more than 700 guests how to perform hands-only lifesaving techniques.

UCLA Media Relations handles news media inquiries and publishes UCLA Newsroom.

Low-income and minority students are particularly affected, and the problem stands to worsen as global temperatures rise, according to public policy researcher Jisung Park.

Highlights from NPR, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, Politico, Vice and others.

Nearly 30 percent of people in the ongoing trial have survived for at least three years after they enrolled in the study; the average life expectancy for people with glioblastoma is 15 to 17 months.

The professor emeritus won the 1997 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneering research on the formation of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP — the cellular energy that drives all biological reactions.