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Undergrads resolve conflicts among students at troubled schools

Avis Ridley-Thomas (far left) and Wellford (Buzz) Wilms (center) with UCLA undergrads who took their class in "Restoring Civility: Understanding, Using and Resolving Conflict." After taking a training course on conflict mediation taught at UCLA...

Music for better living

In celebration of the exhibition "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," the Hammer Museum and KCRW–89.9 FM present free live music tonight at 7 p.m. curated by and featuring KCRW DJs with special guests. Enjoy sets by KCRW DJ Anne Litt...

Be happy: Your genes may thank you for it

Our happiness can impact our gene expression, but it's the way in which we're happy that determines whether that expression is positive or negative, UCLA researchers say.

Lights, camera, instruction!

   "Hollywood Bob" Goldberg explains in his online course how genetic engineering is carried out. His lectures, shot in a production studio and enlivened by archival images as well as animation, came about through a collaboration with...

Could the government get a search warrant for your thoughts?

John Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of electrical engineering and public policy at UCLA. This piece originally appeared in the Atlantic on July 26, 2013.   We don't have a mind reading...

UCLA TFT and Sundance team up for independent film screening

"Cutie and the Boxer," which won the Best Director Award for Zachary Heinzerling at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is coming to UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater Aug. 11 as part of the Sundance Institute’s inaugural NEXT WEEKEND....

Why we can't celebrate

Three UCLA School of Law professors, Devon Carbado, coauthor of "Acting White: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America," Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and Cheryl Harris, co-director of the...

The unraveling of a dream

Gary Orfield is the professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA. He is co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. The Moyers and Company website featured a column that was posted on...

Students are 'stewards of memory' for Holocaust survivors

She was a 93-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where the air was tainted with the smell of death. In 1945, she managed to escape from the Nazis into a forest when camp guards led her and other prisoners on a final death...

UCLA Library — thanks to students, there's an app for that

Students in Simul8 design and maintain apps for UCLA Library. The team functions like a start-up and provides students the opportunity to apply their computer coding knowledge in real-world settings. When Kevin Rundblad was hired in September...

The promise of stem cells

At the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, more than 200 faculty members are working to translate the promise of stem cells into viable treatments for some of society’s most vexing medical conditions.

Video: 1948 mechanical computer at UCLA

This 1948 short film by Popular Science magazine screened in movie theaters before Paramount Pictures features. It shows a "differential analyzer" in use by UCLA engineering students and researchers.

A sovereign wealth fund can save UK from market meltdown

Roger E. A. Farmer is distinguished professor of economics at UCLA and currently Senior Houblon Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. This op-ed appreared in the Financial Times on July 18, 2013.   Ben Bernanke suggested in June that the...

Obama’s former aide shares glimpses of life with president

Reggie Love (at right) finds his shot blocked by President Barack Obama on a basketball court at St. Bartholomew Church in New York City on Sept. 23, 2009. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. What was it like to spend...

Real Madrid to train at UCLA

One of soccer's most storied teams, Spain's Real Madrid, will train on UCLA's top-notch field this summer, from July 29 through Aug. 5. Practices are private and closed to the public.

The promise of stem cells

Shown above are some of the stem cells derived by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. To see more, click here.  Stem cells are the body’s “master” cells....

Genetic screening: Every newborn a patient

Stefan Timmermans is a professor and chair of the UCLA department of sociology and faculty associate with the Institute for Society and Genetics. He is the author of the book "Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening." This op-ed...

New dean selected for continuing education and UCLA Extension

Wayne Smutz, executive director of Pennsylvania State University’s World Campus and associate vice president for academic outreach, has been selected as the new dean of continuing education and UCLA Extension, subject to approval by interim action of the UC regents.

Is sexual addiction the real deal?

"These findings would represent a major challenge to existing theories of a sex 'addiction,' " said UCLA's Nicole Prause, who studied the brain responses of individuals with hypersexual problems.

How well-designed cities keep us healthy

In the current American Journal of Public Health, UCLA's Dr. Richard Jackson discusses advances in community design that help make our cities better for our health.
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