Students of associate professor Lauren Lee McCarthy (seated, at left) — one of this year’s award recipients — will work closely with members of the disability community on issues of online design accessibility and disability justice.

5 professors receive 2021 Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Research

By Jonathan Riggs Five UCLA faculty members will create…
A school of kelp bass. A new database created by scientists from UCLA and other institutions covers about 70% of all animals that live in the California Current, off of the west coast of North America.Photo Credit: Zack Gold

Scientists create genetic library for mega-ecosystem in Pacific Ocean

UCLA-led research improves value of environmental DNA for fisheries…
Military vehicles traveling through a flooded street in Minnesota. Photo Credit: Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson/U.S. Air Force

Climate change definitively linked to increases in extreme rain and snow, UCLA research finds

Study uses machine learning to analyze decades’ worth of data…
The researchers focused on the dynamics of a key signaling molecule in immune cells called macrophages (pictured here).

UCLA study reveals how immune cells can be trained to fight infections

The body’s immune cells naturally fight off viral and bacterial…
Young boy with school workbook and tablet computer

Through UCLA course, students deliver funding to L.A. nonprofits

  Philanthropy as Civic Engagement class has distributed…
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. gives a speech after being presented with the UCLA Medal.

UCLA Labor Center building to be renamed for civil rights icon Rev. James Lawson Jr.

New California budget also sets aside $15 million for renovations It’s…
Professor Barbara Fuchs speaks with Pedro Sánchez, the president of Spain, on UCLA’s campus

Spanish government to honor UCLA professor for promoting language and culture

The Cervantes Institute, a Spanish government agency dedicated…
A photo of Patricia Greenfield.

Patricia Greenfield honored for child development research

Patricia Greenfield, a UCLA distinguished professor of psychology,…
A photo of UCLA professor Renee Tajima-Peña.

Renee Tajima-Peña wins Peabody for ‘Asian Americans’ docuseries

“Asian Americans,” the five-part miniseries created for…
A photo of Aurora borealis in Alaska

‘Surfing’ particles: Physicists solve a mystery surrounding aurora borealis

The spectacularly colorful aurora borealis — or northern…