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Scientific rigor and creativity on display at Undergraduate Research Week 2024

Meet some of this year’s more than 1,600 student researchers By…
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Children are taught to say “please.” But a new UCLA study shows the word may be a tool to manage frictions, not a sign of politeness.

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UCLA scientists, including a life sciences faculty member, develop a new method to engineer immune cells that could treat multiple patients

Bruin Bookshelf Spotlight: Professor Zrinka Stahuljak

‘Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History…
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Diego Sarmiento awarded prestigious Truman Scholarship and Strauss Scholarship

Sarmiento is the first UCLA undergraduate to receive the Truman…
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English professor Justin Torres receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

Wilfrid Gangbo in a blue and white jacket with green leaves in the background.

From Africa to the U.S.: Professor Wilfrid Gangbo finds inspiration in uplifting his fellow Black mathematicians, past and present