Tag Archive for: research
![Jo Anne Van Tilburg, right, and Cristián Arévalo Pakarati](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Easter-Island-2-495x400.jpg)
The stone faces and human problems on Easter Island
Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg continues to seek insight…
![Divers survey submersible cages used to farm cobia off the coast of Puerto Rico. UCLA researchers conducted the first country-by-country evaluation of the potential for marine aquaculture under current policies and practices.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Aquaculture-495x400.jpg)
Will ocean seafood farming sink or swim? UCLA study evaluates its potential
Seafood farming in the ocean — or marine aquaculture…
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Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
UCLA researchers and colleagues have designed a new device…
![Photo of UCLA professor Kent Hill and graduate student Stephanie DeMarco](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/KentHillStephanieDeMarcolabphoto_mid-495x400.jpg)
Scientists identify a key gene in the transmission of deadly African sleeping sickness
Life scientists from UCLA and the University of…
![Photo of Brenda Elaine Stevenson](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/BrendaStevenson2_thmb-1.jpg)
Brenda Elaine Stevenson receives inaugural 2019 Germany residency at the University of Augsburg
During its annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,…
![Photo of the DVD cover for the Nollywood film 'Water of Glod'.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/WaterofGoldPSA_mid-495x400.jpg)
Social scientists partner with Nollywood film industry to test a corruption-reporting campaign in Nigeria
A team of social scientists, including UCLA political…
![Diagram of Vegetation density in California in 2011 versus 2014.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Beforeandafterdrought_mid-495x400.jpg)
California ‘browning’ more in the south during droughts
Like a climate chameleon, California turned brown…
![Photo of Professor Stephanie Jamison.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/StephanieJamison_thmb.jpg)
Professor Stephanie Jamison to share how she finds women in ancient, often patriarchal, texts
For four decades, UCLA’s Stephanie Jamison has been somewhat…
![The galactic chimneys (yellow-orange areas extending vertically) are centered on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GalacticchimneysinMilkyWay_mid-495x400.jpg)
Giant X-ray ‘chimneys’ are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way’s center
The center of our galaxy is a frenzy of activity.…
![Photo of Kara Cooney, professor of Egyptian art and architecture at UCLA.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Cooney_new-495x400.jpg)
The parallels of female power in ancient Egypt and modern times
Related: Kara Cooney discusses her book, ‘The Good Kings,’…