Stories – UCLA College

Alumna and author La’Tonya Rease Miles shares her ‘first-gen origin story’

February 25, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Alex Hall standing in a garden with his arms crossed. — A new vision for climate science and society
February 24, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Maher El-Kady in a green headband with a bowling alley in the background. — New short film features Maher El-Kady’s groundbreaking work on safer, sustainable batteries
February 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

From left: Colene Agbo, Kayleen Speller, Yohannes Tefera and Ademole Turner write in notebooks at a lab table with pens and circuitry pieces. — Students get hands-on engineering experience building a 3D-printed cyclotron
February 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Abstract image with a color gradient suggesting heat in one corner and cold in another, similar to a weather map, heat map, elevation map or climate stripes, labeled "Degrees: UCLA Climate Change Insights." — UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain on the threats to public safety due to mass firing of scientists at federal level
February 19, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A woman grocery shopping. — Newsweek: UCLA faculty leading food cluster course on sustainable eating and global impact
February 14, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Student Títílọpẹ́ Olotu stands with an oversized U.S. passport — ‘Passport Caravan’ event at UCLA helps students start their global journeys
February 12, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Volunteers with a visitor at the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures table at World Languages Day. — Hundreds celebrate UCLA language offerings at World Languages Day
February 11, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Maher El-Kady holding a molecule diagram as he stands in front of the Shapiro Fountain. — Chemistry alumni and researcher Maher El-Kady named one of 10 Most Influential Leaders in E-Mobility
February 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Crowd of people photographing the Mona Lisa — Mona Lisa beyond borders: Of hordes, theft and nationalism (and Leonardo in Westwood)
February 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Photo of child at desk working on math problems — UCLA ‘math circle’ program keeps instruction going for kids affected by fires
February 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Hand with blue pigment on fingertips — True blue: Art historian Thiago Puglieri explores nature’s most precious color
February 4, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A black and white photograph of Paul Taylor with a spotlight placed on his head and shoulders. — Philosopher Paul Taylor has a unique story to tell — about comedy, Hallmark movies and Black aesthetics in the U.S.
February 4, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

From left to right, collage of Elaheh Ahmadi, Justine Lee, Osvaldo Gutierrez and Mitchell Spearrin — UCLA faculty members, including chemist Osvaldo Gutierrez, honored with Presidential Early Career Awards
January 30, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Zrinka Stahuljak and cover of her book "Fixers" — Zrinka Stahuljak’s book ‘Fixers’ honored as one of year’s best by History Today
January 29, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Keith Terasaki in a blue suit. — In Memoriam: Keith Terasaki
January 28, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Stoddart in his UCLA laboratory — In memoriam: J. Fraser Stoddart, 82, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
January 27, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Papandreou (second from left) with Dean Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor Sharon Gerstel, Interim Dean Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Dean Abel Valenzuela. — In talk at UCLA, former Greek prime minister cites roles of innovation, imagination in democracy
January 27, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Meg Cychosz sitting in a model rocket ship in her research lab — Linguistics professor Meg Cychosz is expanding the universe of language development research
January 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Black-and-white rectangular box against black background — UCLA Physical Sciences co-funds new next-gen electron microscope
January 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Firefighter implements controlled burn — From the Experts: UCLA Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative
January 23, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Illustration of a PEDOT film on a graphene sheet that can be used in supercapacitors to store large amounts of energy. — Research led by UCLA chemists demonstrates the potential of PEDOT nanofibers for supercapacitor applications
January 21, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

A microscopic image of an S. stercoralis nematode against a gray background. — UCLA College neurobiologists discover skin-penetrating nematodes have a love-hate relationship with carbon dioxide
January 21, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Smoke rises as a wildfire burns in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, California, January 7, 2025. — The New Yorker: UCLA College climate scientist Daniel Swain on the variables that led to the L.A. wildfires
January 13, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

King-Kok Cheung portrait — UCLA College professor emeritus King-Kok Cheung reflects on a ‘sinuous life as an omnivorous humanist’
January 10, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Submerged cars float in the forefront as a National Guard vehicle approaches a flooded railroad track in Monterey County California — New research led by UCLA’s Daniel Swain links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere’s sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water
January 9, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Two people hold hands atop a table — Researchers — including psychology professor Jamie Krems — find betrayal doesn’t necessarily make someone less trustworthy if we benefit
January 9, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

An illustration representing high-resolution microscopic images derived from diffraction patterns by an algorithm — 25 years of UCLA College physicist John Miao’s computational imaging breakthroughs
January 8, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

World Languages Day, a cherished UCLA tradition returns on Feb. 5

January 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

Firefighter at California wildfire — UCLA braced for extreme Santa Ana winds
January 7, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

The Reichstag in Berlin, Germany — 2024 UCLA College grad will have close-up view of Germany’s transition to new government
January 6, 2025/by Alvaro Castillo

UCLA faculty member Gustavo Leclerc and students speaking on sidewalk near bus stop — 40 projects receive 2024 grants for community-engaged scholarship
December 20, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Adriana Galván — Dean of Undergraduate Education Adriana Galván shares three powerful lessons from decades of research into adolescent brain development at a November TED Salon event
December 20, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Alexander Hoffmann, in checkered suit, gestures as he sits at table in front of a whiteboard — UCLA scientists envision the future of the biodata ‘revolution’
December 18, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Surrounded by stars and galaxies, the galaxy M87, with a linear “jet” emitting from the center, is seen from a distance as captured by the Event Horizon Telescope. — Astrophysicists capture astonishing images of gamma-ray flare from black hole
December 13, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

thumbnail-magic-363-241-wordpress — What is magic? Defining the indefinable through a UCLA glass, darkly
December 12, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

LorreScholars_ColorCorrect-363-241 — An impact bigger than ‘The Big Bang’
December 11, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

An illustration featuring test tubes, a double helix molecule and pills against a green background with white squares in a game-board pattern with the words "Lab to Life" near the center. — Lab to life: from science to real-world health solutions
December 11, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

UCLA English students attending a performance of Waiting for Godot at the Geffen Playhouse — For Colleen Jaurretche’s students, ‘Waiting for Godot’ comes to life
December 11, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Pri Narang writing math equations on a glass whiteboard. — Pri Narang and the emergence of a new world
December 6, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

A photo of Pradip Gatkine in a red, white and black shirt in front of Royce Hall superimposed on a blue background. — When Venus and the sun aligned
December 5, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Alexandra Minna Stern — Dean Stern to present at Dec. 9 AAAS discussion on disability justice, reproductive justice
December 5, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Richard Yarborough — His career is the ‘story of the African American literary tradition’
December 5, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

AI-generated graphics for cover of comparative literature course — Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system
December 4, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

An image of Tom Bye (left) and David Bohne (right) sitting in a room with books and posters superimposed over a blue background. — Q&A: Bridging theory and practice in linguistics
December 3, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

M. Rahim Shayegan, Elton Daniel, Alex Stern and Darnell Hunt. — Illuminating a New Era for Iranian Studies
December 3, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Steven Steinberg, L.A. County’s Geographic Information Officer, presents Pincetl with an award at the county’s 17th annual GIS Day. — Transforming data into climate action: UCLA’s Stephanie Pincetl honored at L.A. County GIS Day
December 2, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Professor William Schniedewind with UCLA Powell Library in background — Who wrote the Bible? In new book, upcoming lecture, William Schniedewind offers bold new answers
November 26, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Tom Bye and David Bohne with Professor Megha Sundara — UCLA Department of Linguistics endowed term chair established with $1.5 million gift
November 26, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Ceramic vessel in feline form from Moche community in Peru — In Fowler Museum exhibition, ancient Peruvian objects reveal search for meaning, connection with nature
November 25, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Performance by Calidore String Quartet at the William Andrews Clark Library — Chamber Music at the Clark raises the curtain on 30th season
November 22, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Participants from Exploring the Nile workshop at Getty Villa. October 2024 — Workshop focuses on exploitation of Nile in arts of ancient northeastern Africa
November 21, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Prineha Narang writing on a transparent screen — Prineha Narang receives nearly $2 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
November 20, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

two females students in an empty classroom hugging — Findings from the Center for Scholars & Storytellers survey indicate Gen Zers want to be safe
November 19, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Portrait of Sixiang Wang outside of Royce Hall — Sixiang Wang honored for book that reframes 3 centuries of Korea-China relations
November 18, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

Six adolescents smiling for the camera — Checking in with the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent
November 15, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo

UCLA Future Food Fellows — UCLA’s inaugural Future of Food Fellows poised to advance the field of cellular agriculture
November 15, 2024/by Alvaro Castillo