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UCLA Fulbright awardees will soon depart for global destinations
Six recent graduates and one faculty member will conduct research and promote cultural exchanges.
UCLA in the News August 2, 2024
Highlights from KTLA-TV, Spectrum News 1, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and others.
Alumni $2.3 million pledge ensures unprecedented access to ‘news we all can use’
Irv and Xiaoyan Drasnin’s commitment will help realize the vision of late communication professor Paul Rosenthal.
UCLA officially joins the Big Ten Conference
Two years after announcing their impending move, the Bruins are now members of an 18-team league that stretches from coast to coast.
UCLA at the Olympics: From Paris through the past
While the Olympic flame still burns, check up on the latest news from France and take a trip down UCLA’s Olympics memory lane.
24 for ’24: With Bruins in Paris, relive some of the highlights of UCLA’s Olympic glory
From Rafer Johnson to Madison Kocian, UCLA athletes and coaches have made a splash at the Games.
Darnell Hunt begins his tenure as UCLA’s interim chancellor
Hunt, who since September 2022 has served UCLA’s executive vice chancellor and provost, assumed the role of interim chancellor of the university today, Aug. 1.
Election 360: Kamala Harris’ campaign and the ‘war against woke’ backlash
UCLA’s Kimberlé Crenshaw, an expert on civil rights and constitutional law, weighs in on how the right and left view the candidate.
UCLA in the News July 31, 2024
Highlights from Southern California News Group, LAist, KABC-TV and others.
Layered superconductor coaxed to show unusual properties with potential for quantum computing
Research brief: The new material retained properties under a much higher magnetic field than the theoretical limit of a conventional superconductor.
UCLA increases number of California residents and underrepresented students admitted for fall 2024
Admissions of first-year California students increased 2.5% to 8,795, with 37% coming from historically underrepresented groups.
Creating the global university: How Gene Block built bridges from Westwood to the world
A tireless traveler, Block has taken an in-person, hands-on approach to positioning the university as a major player on the world stage.
UCLA in the News July 30, 2024
Highlights from the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk” and others.
UCLA receives $2 million to develop regenerative medicine therapies for spinal cord injury
The grant from The Marcus Foundation will support research on restoring sensory function and feeling.
UCLA in the News July 29, 2024
Highlights from the Wall Street Journal, Nature, Washington Post and others.
Diving into the 2024 Paris Olympics with Daniella Ramirez
The U.S. women’s artistic swimming team, which trains at UCLA, is competing in the Games for the first time since 2008.
UCLA in the News July 26, 2024
Highlights from Discover Magazine, Spectrum News 1, MSNBC and others.
Wildfire smoke can bring ‘lingering symptoms for months’
Smoke can spread 10-15 times farther than wildfires, posing big risks for vulnerable people.
49 Bruins set to shine at the Paris Olympics
Get all the information on the Games — from athlete bios and event schedules to which alumni will be broadcasting.
UCLA engineers become 6-time RoboCup soccer world champions
Team RoMeLa’s robot athletes knocked out four opponents in six matches at an international tournament held in the Netherlands.
Fowler Museum at UCLA permanently returns cultural objects to Australia’s Warumungu community
The repatriated objects — including clubs, picks, knives, sheaths, adzes and a boomerang — will go back to their Aboriginal owners in the Northern Territory.