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Brenda Elaine Stevenson receives inaugural 2019 Germany residency at the University of Augsburg

During its annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,…
Photo of the DVD cover for the Nollywood film 'Water of Glod'.

Social scientists partner with Nollywood film industry to test a corruption-reporting campaign in Nigeria

  A team of social scientists, including UCLA political…
Diagram of Vegetation density in California in 2011 versus 2014.

California ‘browning’ more in the south during droughts

  Like a climate chameleon, California turned brown…
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Professor Stephanie Jamison to share how she finds women in ancient, often patriarchal, texts

For four decades, UCLA’s Stephanie Jamison has been somewhat…
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New endowed chair in history goes to Nile Green, scholar of global history and Islam

  UCLA professor of history Nile Green, a…
The galactic chimneys (yellow-orange areas extending vertically) are centered on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Giant X-ray ‘chimneys’ are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way’s center

  The center of our galaxy is a frenzy of activity.…
Photo of Justin Caram, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the UCLA College, and graduate student Dayanni Bhagwandin.

New UCLA fellowship aims to make environmental science more inclusive

  Climate change touches every life on the planet…
Painted Lady Butterfly

UCLA aflutter over the butterfly effect

You’ve seen the butterflies fluttering across Los Angeles…
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UCLA biology professor uses superheroes to help students sift fact from fiction

While Shane Campbell-Staton was working on his dissertation…

UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report reveals a few bright spots for women and minorities

Counting each year’s 200 top-grossing films,…