
Close social ties make baboons better mothers, study finds
Baboons whose mothers have strong relationships with other females…

Anthropologist named dean of social sciences
Alessandro "Sandro" Duranti, a linguistic anthropologist, has…

Two College faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Three UCLA scholars -- including two from the College -- have…

Six professors in the College elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The new fellows join one of the nation's most prestigious honorary…

The world is a classroom? Thanks to technology, it can be
Molecular biologist Robert B. Goldberg is teaching an honors…

Biologists solve mystery of black wolves
Why do nearly half of North American wolves have black coats…

U.S. Civil War illustrates costs and benefits of diversity
Diversity can create many outcomes, say two UCLA economists who…

Discover magazine names two UCLA faculty among “brightest people alive”
Mathematics professor Terence Tao and assistant professor of…

Plate tectonics started over 4 billion years ago, geochemists report
A new picture of the early Earth is emerging, including the surprising…

Two UCLA students named Rhodes Scholars for 2009
A UCLA senior and a recent graduate have been chosen as winners…

Extinct sabertooth cats were social, found strength in numbers
The sabertooth cat, one of the most iconic extinct mammals, was…

Online bullying: A Common Problem
Nearly three in four teenagers say they were bullied online at…