UCLA is one of the world's premier universities. At the core of the university's research programs, graduate training, and undergraduate instruction is the College of Letters and Science.
Coming College Events
The College Deans are delighted to announce that President Bill Clinton will be the speaker at the inaugural Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership.
Many students in the College participate in research as undergraduates, taking major roles in important studies and publishing their findings even before they graduate.
A team of scientists at UCLA, the University of Louisville, and Cal Tech has achieved a significant breakthrough in its initial work with a paralyzed male volunteer -- the result of 30 years of research to find potential clinical therapies for paralysis.
Harryette Mullen, professor of English and winner of the Jackson Prize for Poetry, uses her writings to explore globalism, the African American experience, women's issues, and a love of wordplay.
In a feat of manipulating substances at the nanoscale, UCLA researchers and colleagues demonstrated a method to isolate two molecules and control how they react when excited with ultraviolet light, making detailed observations both before and after the reaction.
An team of astronomers has identified for the first time a thick stellar disc in the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way.