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UCLA receives $1 million for Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali postdoctoral fellowship in Iranian linguistics

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Named for the renowned linguist Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, the fellowship will promote research on the linguistic heritage of Iran, focused on Persian and Iranian languages.

UCLA professors of biology and chemistry honored as 2017 Packard fellows

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Elaine Hsiao, UCLA assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, and Hosea Nelson, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, are among 18 outstanding young scientists in the U.S. to be awarded Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

UCLA receives $5 million to establish center for the study of Hellenic culture

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The center, which will be housed in the UCLA College, will build on the university’s strengths in Hellenic studies and support research across disciplines ranging from archaeology and classics to languages and digital humanities.

$2 million gift from alumnus establishes UCLA faculty chairs in chemistry and biochemistry

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The gift will create the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science and the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation.

$5 million gift from Morton La Kretz will support renovation of UCLA Botany Building

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The restoration and improvements made possible by the donation will enhance research and teaching on plant, conservation and environmental biology in the UCLA College’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology.

UCLA biologists slow aging, extend lifespan of fruit flies

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UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine — turning back the clock on a key component of aging.

Traces of the Civil War in California

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Cities nationwide — including in California — are confronting their Confederate history after a violent and fatal weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Astronomers find that the sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface

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Surprising observation might reveal what the sun was like when it formed

Technique for measuring and controlling electron state is a breakthrough in quantum computing

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“The dream is to have an array of hundreds or thousands of qubits all working together to solve a difficult problem,” said graduate student Joshua Schoenfield. “This work is an important step toward realizing that dream.”

How Los Angeles became the capital of incarceration

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For the last several years, UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández has been reaching into Los Angeles history, back before the city was even city or California was even a state, to unearth evidence of how local and national governments, police and jail systems operated as a formalized machine of conquest and elimination targeting native, poor and non-white people.