Stories – UCLA College

Older man in red hat paints a picture of a building on a canvas sitting on an easel — Are you curious? It might help you stay sharp as you age
May 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

NGC 1068, also known as the Squid Galaxy — The Squid Galaxy’s neutrino game just leveled up
May 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Dr. Michelle Craske and Kevin Love in discussion at an event for World Mental Health Day. — Basketball pro Kevin Love funds endowed chair, a vital assist for mental health
May 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Russell Lehmann in a black polo standing and speaking from a podium. — Russell Lehmann, autism advocate and new Bruin, champions neurodiversity and disability rights
May 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

DataFest 2025 participants — Classroom to community: celebrating 15 years of student success at UCLA’s DataFest hackathon
May 7, 2025/by jonathan riggs

Two plates display vegetables and halved tomatoes, nuts and legumes including chickpeas and walnuts — Embrace the future: How food choices can impact Earth
May 2, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Leila Chiddick seated on steps outside UCLA Broad Art Center. — To understand how global policy leaves behind some birthing parents, she gathered intel from doulas
April 30, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

From left: Noor Nakhaei, president of UCLA’s Graduate Student Association; 2025 UCLA Grad Slam champion Pablo Alvarez; Brian Kite, UCLA dean and vice provost of graduate education. — UCLA College Ph.D. candidate Pablo Alvarez studies viruses that infect the brain. His research talk won the 2025 UCLA Grad Slam
April 24, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Two white plant seedlings among green ones in petri dish — Tiny CRISPR tool opens door to faster, simpler plant genome editing
April 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A person drinking tea and reading poetry. — Listen to some of the finest UCLA College poets
April 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

globe-earth-month-363-241 — Watch: How UCLA has become L.A.’s living lab of sustainability
April 22, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Goldwater-scholars-2025-363-241 — Four Bruins awarded 2025 Goldwater Scholarships
April 21, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Amander Clark and Elizabeth Dias speaking in front of a crowd — Lessons from the Fall of Roe – UCLA CRSHE hosts a public conversation with bestselling author and New York Times journalist Elizabeth Dias
April 21, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

2021 Tennant Fire smoke rises in front of a mountain in Yreka, Calif. — Watch: IoES Prof. Glen MacDonald delivers keynote address at Climate Action Day
April 16, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A sailboat on the water at sunset. — Sail the high seas of science and adventure aboard the research vessel UCLA Zodiac
April 16, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Carribean Fragoza wearing red dress standing in front of brightly colored wall. — Acclaimed writer Carribean Fragoza to speak at UCLA Humanities commencement
April 14, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Esha Niyogi De next to image of her book cover — Esha Niyogi De’s new book reveals a previously hidden narrative about women in South Asian cinema
April 14, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Aric Klein photographing Vincent Jurado in Malibu during the group's visit — Students, including physical sciences doctoral student Sara Graves, on inaugural, interdisciplinary performance of “Climate Notes”
April 14, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A silhouette of a tree and wolf howling against a starry night. — Has the Dire Wolf Truly Been Resurrected? UCLA’s Bradley Shaffer weighs in
April 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Gutierrez and other researchers in a lab setting. — Criado en el Rancho, Hecho en UCLA: Osvaldo Gutiérrez comparte su trayectoria, de estudiante indocumentado en UCLA a profesor de química
April 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Osvaldo Gutierrez with arms crossed. — Rancho Raised, UCLA Made: Osvaldo Gutierrez shares his journey from undocumented student at UCLA to professor of chemistry
April 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Sierra Chen and a chalkboard with equations — The mathematics of compassion: ’93 M.A. grad Sierra Chen gives back
April 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Blue banner with mandala-inspired designs and in yellow font, the words: "National Arab American Heritage Month." — A curated selection of stories from across the UCLA campus spotlighting Arab American voices, histories and research
April 9, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Kristen Ochoa looks through binoculars as she stands in Eaton fire burn scar — UCLA experts are monitoring wildlife recovery in Eaton fire burn scar
April 9, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Russell Lehmann — USA TODAY: He was a 5th grade dropout. Now he’s teaching at UCLA and raising awareness about disabilities.
April 9, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

New Bruin Jack Bobo is a globally acclaimed food systems expert whose resume is literally out of this world

April 8, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Photos, clockwise from top left, of Josh Yen-Ho Chou, Quinn O’Connor, Zhe Zhang and Annemarie Lawrence — Disability studies alumni panel brings advocacy, access to the forefront
April 8, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Mason Porter — UCLA professor of mathematics Mason Porter wins major Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics prize
April 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Yoko and Michio Yanai standing at the base of a concrete stairs with clouds and lightning in the background. — Family gift enables UCLA to establish first endowed department chair in physical sciences
April 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Closeup of cels from a Japanese paper film — Paper films – treasures of pre-war Japan – to be screened at Billy Wilder Theater, April 13
April 4, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Danza Azteca Tonatiuh de la Puente dancers — Ceremony, connectiveness mark the start of ‘a different kind of UCLA’ for Latino Bruins
April 3, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Jack Bobo dressed in brown suit jacket and red tie as he holds a certificate in folder with the IICA Chair in Global Food Security and Agricultural Innovation award — Jack Bobo named IICA Chair in Global Food Security and Agricultural Innovation
April 3, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Susan Downey at an archaeological excavation — In memoriam: Susan Downey, 86, scholar of ancient art and archaeology
April 2, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Still from satellite view imagery over Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano eruption site — Hunga volcano eruption cooled, rather than warmed, the Southern Hemisphere
April 2, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, with mountains on either side — As Colorado River shrinks, states fail to tap an accessible water source
April 2, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Robert Gould, in dark jacket and blue shirt, holding a microphone — Classroom to community: Hundreds to compete in UCLA’s 15th annual DataFest hackathon
March 31, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Auriela Nobels stands in front of a blue-and-orange liveried open-wheel race car — Inside a UCLA course on gender in motorsports
March 26, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Vacant fenced-off land with the works "Small Lots - Big Impacts" superimposed in white font. — New initiative to design innovative starter homes on vacant land launches
March 26, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Daryle Williams, Alexandra Minna Stern and Sara Guyer seated on stage at UC Systemwide Academic Congress — Alexandra Minna Stern joins deans from UC Berkeley, Riverside to trumpet humanities research
March 21, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Vetri Nathan (second from left), a professor of European languages and transcultural studies, with graduate students in his environmental humanities course. — How a Channel Islands excursion brought environmental humanities vividly to life
March 20, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A map of the basic structural unit in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei’s flagellum — Atomic imaging and AI offer new insights into motion of parasite behind sleeping sickness
March 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

An illustration of a periodic table of elements treated with a blue and orange gradient. — How the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department has grown into a teaching powerhouse at UCLA
March 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

From left: Steven Dubinett, Thomas Rando, Yvonne Chen, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk, Aparna Bhaduri, Amander Clark and Judith Gasson stand in front of UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center step-and-repeat sign — UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center hosts inaugural Women in Stem Cell Science Symposium
March 13, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A logarithmic spiral with a diameter of 500 μm, approximately half the diameter of a sewing needle. — How chemistry and force etch mysterious spiral patterns on solid surfaces
March 13, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Tara Prescott-Johnson (center) in a water tank at the California Science Center with UCLA students Samantha Calva and Evelyn Cuxeva-Ortega — A community-engaged English composition course is building more confident writers
March 11, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Illustration of a planet in orbit on an elliptical path — UCLA astrophysicists identify distinct developmental journey of eccentric planets
March 4, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Head and shoulders portrait of Albert R. Braunmuller in a grey suit. — In Memoriam: Albert R. Braunmuller, 79, leading authority on Renaissance English drama
March 3, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Professor Kristopher W. Kersey and the cover of his book, "Facing Images" — Art historian Kristopher Kersey’s first book honored by Medieval Academy of America
February 27, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Colorful strands showing restoration of dystrophin (stained green) in Duchenne muscular dystrophy muscle cells — UCLA plays pivotal role in first gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
February 26, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Alumna and author La’Tonya Rease Miles shares her ‘first-gen origin story’

February 25, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Alex Hall standing in a garden with his arms crossed. — A new vision for climate science and society
February 24, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Maher El-Kady in a green headband with a bowling alley in the background. — New short film features Maher El-Kady’s groundbreaking work on safer, sustainable batteries
February 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

From left: Colene Agbo, Kayleen Speller, Yohannes Tefera and Ademole Turner write in notebooks at a lab table with pens and circuitry pieces. — Students get hands-on engineering experience building a 3D-printed cyclotron
February 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Abstract image with a color gradient suggesting heat in one corner and cold in another, similar to a weather map, heat map, elevation map or climate stripes, labeled "Degrees: UCLA Climate Change Insights." — UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain on the threats to public safety due to mass firing of scientists at federal level
February 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo