Stories – UCLA College

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

A woman grocery shopping. — Newsweek: UCLA faculty leading food cluster course on sustainable eating and global impact
February 14, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Student Títílọpẹ́ Olotu stands with an oversized U.S. passport — ‘Passport Caravan’ event at UCLA helps students start their global journeys
February 12, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Volunteers with a visitor at the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures table at World Languages Day. — Hundreds celebrate UCLA language offerings at World Languages Day
February 11, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Maher El-Kady holding a molecule diagram as he stands in front of the Shapiro Fountain. — Chemistry alumni and researcher Maher El-Kady named one of 10 Most Influential Leaders in E-Mobility
February 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Crowd of people photographing the Mona Lisa — Mona Lisa beyond borders: Of hordes, theft and nationalism (and Leonardo in Westwood)
February 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Photo of child at desk working on math problems — UCLA ‘math circle’ program keeps instruction going for kids affected by fires
February 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Hand with blue pigment on fingertips — True blue: Art historian Thiago Puglieri explores nature’s most precious color
February 4, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A black and white photograph of Paul Taylor with a spotlight placed on his head and shoulders. — Philosopher Paul Taylor has a unique story to tell — about comedy, Hallmark movies and Black aesthetics in the U.S.
February 4, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

From left to right, collage of Elaheh Ahmadi, Justine Lee, Osvaldo Gutierrez and Mitchell Spearrin — UCLA faculty members, including chemist Osvaldo Gutierrez, honored with Presidential Early Career Awards
January 30, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Zrinka Stahuljak and cover of her book "Fixers" — Zrinka Stahuljak’s book ‘Fixers’ honored as one of year’s best by History Today
January 29, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Keith Terasaki in a blue suit. — In Memoriam: Keith Terasaki
January 28, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Stoddart in his UCLA laboratory — In memoriam: J. Fraser Stoddart, 82, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
January 27, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Papandreou (second from left) with Dean Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor Sharon Gerstel, Interim Dean Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Dean Abel Valenzuela. — In talk at UCLA, former Greek prime minister cites roles of innovation, imagination in democracy
January 27, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Meg Cychosz sitting in a model rocket ship in her research lab — Linguistics professor Meg Cychosz is expanding the universe of language development research
January 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Black-and-white rectangular box against black background — UCLA Physical Sciences co-funds new next-gen electron microscope
January 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Firefighter implements controlled burn — From the Experts: UCLA Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative
January 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Illustration of a PEDOT film on a graphene sheet that can be used in supercapacitors to store large amounts of energy. — Research led by UCLA chemists demonstrates the potential of PEDOT nanofibers for supercapacitor applications
January 21, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A microscopic image of an S. stercoralis nematode against a gray background. — UCLA College neurobiologists discover skin-penetrating nematodes have a love-hate relationship with carbon dioxide
January 21, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Smoke rises as a wildfire burns in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, California, January 7, 2025. — The New Yorker: UCLA College climate scientist Daniel Swain on the variables that led to the L.A. wildfires
January 13, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

King-Kok Cheung portrait — UCLA College professor emeritus King-Kok Cheung reflects on a ‘sinuous life as an omnivorous humanist’
January 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Submerged cars float in the forefront as a National Guard vehicle approaches a flooded railroad track in Monterey County California — New research led by UCLA’s Daniel Swain links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere’s sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water
January 9, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Two people hold hands atop a table — Researchers — including psychology professor Jamie Krems — find betrayal doesn’t necessarily make someone less trustworthy if we benefit
January 9, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

An illustration representing high-resolution microscopic images derived from diffraction patterns by an algorithm — 25 years of UCLA College physicist John Miao’s computational imaging breakthroughs
January 8, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

World Languages Day, a cherished UCLA tradition returns on Feb. 5

January 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Firefighter at California wildfire — UCLA braced for extreme Santa Ana winds
January 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

The Reichstag in Berlin, Germany — 2024 UCLA College grad will have close-up view of Germany’s transition to new government
January 6, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

UCLA faculty member Gustavo Leclerc and students speaking on sidewalk near bus stop — 40 projects receive 2024 grants for community-engaged scholarship
December 20, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Adriana Galván — Dean of Undergraduate Education Adriana Galván shares three powerful lessons from decades of research into adolescent brain development at a November TED Salon event
December 20, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Alexander Hoffmann, in checkered suit, gestures as he sits at table in front of a whiteboard — UCLA scientists envision the future of the biodata ‘revolution’
December 18, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Surrounded by stars and galaxies, the galaxy M87, with a linear “jet” emitting from the center, is seen from a distance as captured by the Event Horizon Telescope. — Astrophysicists capture astonishing images of gamma-ray flare from black hole
December 13, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

thumbnail-magic-363-241-wordpress — What is magic? Defining the indefinable through a UCLA glass, darkly
December 12, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

LorreScholars_ColorCorrect-363-241 — An impact bigger than ‘The Big Bang’
December 11, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

An illustration featuring test tubes, a double helix molecule and pills against a green background with white squares in a game-board pattern with the words "Lab to Life" near the center. — Lab to life: from science to real-world health solutions
December 11, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

UCLA English students attending a performance of Waiting for Godot at the Geffen Playhouse — For Colleen Jaurretche’s students, ‘Waiting for Godot’ comes to life
December 11, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo