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Julie Bernard standing on a mountain lookout point with a mountainous valley in the background.

Announcing the 2025 Cotsen Prize recipient: Julie Bernard M.A. ’01, Ph.D. ’08

April 8, 2025

UCLA College | April 8, 2025 The UCLA Cotsen Institute…

Mason Porter

UCLA professor of mathematics Mason Porter wins major Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics prize

Yoko and Michio Yanai standing at the base of a concrete stairs with clouds and lightning in the background.

Family gift enables UCLA to establish first endowed department chair in physical sciences

An underwater photo of canopy-forming kelp with rays of sunlight illuminating their translucent leaves.

Understanding how wildfires affect California’s kelp ecosystems

Closeup of cels from a Japanese paper film

Paper films – treasures of pre-war Japan – to be screened at Billy Wilder Theater, April 13

Jack Bobo dressed in brown suit jacket and red tie as he holds a certificate in folder with the IICA Chair in Global Food Security and Agricultural Innovation award

Jack Bobo named IICA Chair in Global Food Security and Agricultural Innovation

People talking at a communal desk.

Los Angeles Times: Do Californians have an accent? A UCLA anthropology professor is mapping it out

Still from satellite view imagery over Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano eruption site

Hunga volcano eruption cooled, rather than warmed, the Southern Hemisphere

Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, with mountains on either side

As Colorado River shrinks, states fail to tap an accessible water source

Collage by UCLA. Individual photos: Top row (left to right): Unsplash/Joseph Barrientos; Unsplash/Rohan Reddy; NASA Scientific Visualization Studio Bottom row (left to right): Andrew Innerarity/California Department of Water Resources; iStock.com; Ralph Timmermann/Alfred Wegener Institute

The global good: How UCLA is working toward a healthier, cleaner and more sustainable planet

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