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Jacobsen specializes in plant epigenetics — the study of how a gene’s function can change without changes to the DNA sequence.

Jazz trumpeter Daversa won three awards and jazz performance professor Wayne Shorter won best jazz instrumental album.

UCLA's Janet O’Shea says the answer has implications far beyond things like fitness and fun.

The driving force behind the development of Herceptin will split a $1 million prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Sjöberg Foundation.

UCLA Arts’ “10 Questions” hybrid class/public lecture series had professors, students and the audience pondering what is space, freedom, and even a university.

UCLA professor talks about how the event promotes software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields, while increasing accessibility for all.

25 years after Northridge, civil and environmental engineers are using artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensor networks and advances in mapping in their work.

UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy hosts new course for graduate students across campus interested in battling housing injustice.

The professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs challenges her students and lawmakers to rethink homelessness.

Professor Gina Kim is using virtual reality to subvert Hollywood stereotypes of Asians, women and others.

Shapiro was an associate professor with appointments in the psychology department and the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Levine, who was an expert in Latin literature and manuscripts, died on Nov. 25. He was 96.

E. Tendayi Achiume serves as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

“The Passion of Yeshua,” by Richard Danielpour, will be performed for free on Dec. 9 in Royce Hall.

A new report identifies researchers in 21 fields whose work was most often referenced by other papers from 2006 to 2016.

They are among 416 members so honored by the association for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

Christine Samuel-Nakamura and Mary Rezk-Hanna both earned their doctorates at the UCLA School of Nursing.

UCLA’s Carole Goldberg ‘has singlehandedly created an army of well-trained lawyers, judges and academics.’

Analysis of the 2016 election by Lynn Vavreck and co-authors John Sides and Michael Tesler dispels some myths about the contest.

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck featured Sarah T. Roberts in “The Cleaners” — their movie about the anonymous people who screen objectionable content on social media.

Vogel has been named the school’s inaugural Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Visiting Playwright-in-Residence.

Units across campus will host events on global issues, international careers and study abroad.

In this Q&A, Dan Froot extolls the virtues of interdisciplinary scholarship and the importance of art as a tool for justice.

His life and 40-year career at UCLA were marked from the beginning by civic engagement, leadership and giving back.

Bernard Kester, UCLA professor emeritus of design media arts who taught ceramics, weaving and design and initiated the university’s fiber art program, died Oct. 26. He was 90.