
In memoriam: UCLA physics professor Maha Ashour-Abdalla
Maha Ashour-Abdalla, a professor of physics with expertise in…

First Director of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies at UCLA gives major lecture on Israel Independence Day
By: Todd Presner, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, UCLA Alan D.…

Jared Diamond: A dispassionate look at religion over the course of history
Jared Diamond, UCLA’s Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of geography…

Presidential ads put to the test: SpotCheck evaluates 2016 campaign commercials
Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University…

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…

Major advance in ‘synthetic biochemistry’ holds promise for industrial products and biofuels
UCLA biochemists have devised a clever way to make a variety…

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,…

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…

Don Nakanishi, 66, UCLA emeritus professor and pioneer in Asian American studies
Don Nakanishi, a UCLA scholar who gained national recognition…

Root tale: A walking tour of the UCLA campus plants database
In 1966, when Wayne Dollase came to UCLA as an assistant professor…