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Two priorities for the fiscal year 2017 competition were north campus-led research projects and projects involving big data and related tools and capabilities.

UCLA is one of the top universities in the country for producing the most Ph.D.s in the arts and humanities. In 2014-15, UCLA tied for No.1 in the nation with NYU, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Higher Education.  

The first two women of Tongva descent to be awarded Ph.D.s at UCLA celebrated that milestone today at UCLA’s Graduate Division Doctoral Hooding, held on a campus that now sits on the ancient land of their ancestors.

Kaylin Wesley plans to use her knowledge to alleviate major challenges facing black youth as they struggle to attain an education and health care, among other objectives.

Julia Heck will receive $200,000 over two years from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to support research on early detection and prevention.

Diane Favro is UCLA’s first faculty member to receive the honor, which was established in 1965.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive hosts a screening of “Moby Dick” as part of the program “John Huston: A Retrospective.” The program will run from June 17 through August 27 and will feature different films directed by John Huston.  

The UCLA Film and Television Archive hosts a screening of “Fat City” and “Wise Blood” as part of the program, “John Huston: A Retrospective.” The program will run from June 17 through August 27.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive hosts a screening of “The Night of the Iguana” and “Reflections in a Golden Eye” as part of the program “John Huston: A Retrospective”. The program will run from June 17 through August 27.

The UCLA Staff and Faculty Counseling Center is offering a three-week educational support group on change. They will be providing information, tools, and support on how to manage change and build resilience. 

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group awarded UCLA’s Steve Horvath an Allen Distinguished Investigator award.

Once the lingua franca of Mexico, Nahuatl was eventually overtaken by Spanish. Today, the Aztec language is spoken only by 1.5 million people in Mexico, many of whom live in the state of Veracruz on the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico.

Christopher Russell, a professor in UCLA’s Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences and principal investigator for the Dawn Mission, was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal.

UCLA senior James Anderson spent three years behind bars, then co-founded a nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated people, and now plans to dedicate himself to justice system reform.

Graduating senior Luke Vellotti is leaving UCLA this week with two bachelor’s degrees — one in mathematics and one in computer science — and starting his career at Google as a software developer.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive hosts a screening of “The African Queen” and “Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison” as part of the program, “John Huston: A Retrospective.” The program will run from June 17 through August 27.

By showing that stress levels can be quantified by a simple urine test, and that this test helps predict disease, this work could lead to strategies for prevention of coronary heart disease and heart attacks.

The gift, from Michael Jung, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and his wife, Alice, establishes an endowed chair in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs students get a valuable lesson in voting and elections from California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan.

Gabriela Abraham and her daughter, Danielle, have supported each other through college and will be the first in their family to earn four-year degrees.

John Friedmann as an internationally renowned pioneer in urban theory and planning and a central figure in the founding of what is today the Department of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

The latest report says GDP growth will exceed 2 percent in the near term but fall below 2 percent in 2019.

Findings help UCLA-led researchers better understand congenital Zika virus syndrome — a pattern of birth defects found among fetuses and babies infected with the virus.

Professor Min Zhou, director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center and the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications, has been selected to receive the 2017 Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Section on International Migration.

The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is one of a handful of hospitals and clinics nationwide that offer a treatment that works in a fundamentally different way than drugs.