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Times Higher Education global reputation survey places UCLA No. 2 among U.S. public universities
London’s Times Higher Education’s World Reputation Rankings,…
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Jared Diamond: A dispassionate look at religion over the course of history
Jared Diamond, UCLA’s Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of geography…
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Presidential ads put to the test: SpotCheck evaluates 2016 campaign commercials
Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University…
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Foxes on one of California’s Channel Islands have least genetic variation of all wild animals
UCLA biologists report in a new study that a species of foxes…
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Seven UCLA faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election…
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Taylor Guitars donates $400,000 toward ebony conservation and restoration in Cameroon
World-renowned guitar maker Bob Taylor, of Taylor Guitars, has…
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Major advance in ‘synthetic biochemistry’ holds promise for industrial products and biofuels
UCLA biochemists have devised a clever way to make a variety…
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Are they friends or not? Just a second of laughter can reveal relationship status, UCLA study finds
Hearing other people laugh together, even for just one second,…
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Three UCLA professors named 2016 Guggenheim Fellows
A trio of UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group…
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UCLA faculty voice: Body mass index perpetuates stigmas and indicates little about health
You’ve just returned from your morning run and you’re rustling…