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Former NATO Commander Wesley Clark to Join UCLA Burkle Center   General Wesley Clark, former supreme allied commander of NATO, will join the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations as a senior fellow. Clark will teach seminars, publish papers through the Burkle Center and host an annual conference on national security.

Two UCLA Faculty Named to 2006 "Brilliant 10"   Two UCLA faculty have been named to the 2006 "Brilliant 10," the annual list compiled by Popular Science magazine that recognizes the achievements of America’s top young scientists.

A Major Catalyst for Undergraduate Enrichment   A gift from Lew and Edie Wasserman supports more than 100 undergraduate students each year.

A Cauldron of Scientific Discovery   For more than 45 years, the Molecular Biology Institute has spawned unique interdisciplinary collaborations that are addressing the fundamental questions of life.

Digging into the Human Past   Archaeological achievements at UCLA and the potential for the field of study have been transformed by a visionary endowment from Lloyd Cotsen.

Tao Wins Fields Medal   Terence Tao has become the first mathematics professor in UCLA history to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, often described as the “Nobel Prize in mathematics,” during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid on Aug. 22.

Four UCLA Professors Win 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships   Four UCLA professors have won 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships -- honors that support the endeavors of 187 artists, scholars and scientists in the United States and Canada.

Creating a Strong Foundation   A dynamic plan for hiring top faculty for the UCLA College of Letters and Science is building the next generation of campus scholars.

The Wonder of Seeing Molecular Machines   The laboratories of David Eisenberg and Todd Yeates are playing a key role in our understanding of complex structures at the molecular level.

Can Spirituality be Used for Stress Management?   Faith and the use of prayer and religion to manage stress may provide health benefits for cancer survivors, University of California researchers reported today at the American Psychosomatic Society's annual meeting in Denver.

Opening a Door to the Once-Inaccessible Mysteries of the Brain   The new Center for Cognitive Neuroscience will create an interdisciplinary organization that explores some of the greatest challenges of science.

UCLA Opens New Center to Study Race, Ethnicity and Politics   Using local ethnic communities to conduct large-scale surveys exploring the racial attitudes of major groups and providing opportunities for faculty and students to do international fieldwork about the impact of race and ethnicity on global modern societies are among the aspirations of a new UCLA center.

Heart Disease Patients May Be at Risk When Blood Sugar is Normal   Men with cardiovascular disease may be at considerably increased risk for death even when their blood sugar level remains in the "normal" range, suggests a new study by a team of scientists at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

UCLA College Campaign Fundraising Results   The UCLA College of Letters and Science raised more than double its fundraising goal for Campaign UCLA—over $327 million for faculty, undergraduate and graduate student support, and programs and research funding.

Chemists Design and Create Nano Motor Powered by Solar Energy   Chemists at Italy's University of Bologna, UCLA and the California NanoSystems Institute have designed and constructed a molecular motor of nanometer size that does not consume fuels; their nano motor is powered only by sunlight.

Getty, UCLA Offer First U.S. University Program in Archaeological Conservation   UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology has formed a partnership with the Getty Conservation Institute to offer the UCLA/Getty Master's Program on the Conservation of Ethnographic and Archaeological Materials, which began in fall 2005.

UCLA Receives $1 Million For Chair in Israel Studies   UCLA's International Institute has received a pledge of $1 million from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation to endow a permanent chair in Israel studies, which will enhance the institute's role as a leading center for research and education on Israel.

Jupiter's Massive Winds Likely Generated Deep in Planet   A new computer model indicates Jupiter's massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet's interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report today in the journal Nature.

'Obesity Epidemic' Overblown, Conclude UCLA Sociologists   While the proportion of Americans who can be classified as obese may have risen 20 percent since 1980, the so-called obesity epidemic is at best a metaphor and not a very effective one at that, suggests a UCLA study in the current issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

Reflecting on Personal Values Protects From Effects of Stress   Reflecting on meaningful values provides biological and psychological protection from the adverse effects of stress, UCLA psychologists report in the November issue of the journal Psychological Science.

Psychologists Fight Schizophrenia at the Cellular Level   In new research that helps reveal the nature of schizophrenia at the cellular level, UCLA scientists report the discovery of unique DNA sequence variations associated with increased risk for schizophrenia, impairments in short- and long-term memory, and other cognitive deficits.

UCLA Leads U.S. in Scientists Elected to American Academy of Microbiology   UCLA led the nation in the number of scientists elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, with five of the 51 newly elected fellows.

Severely Reducing Calories Won't Dramatically Help People   Severely restricting calories over decades may add a few years to a human life span, but will not enable humans to live to 125 and beyond, as many have speculated, evolutionary biologists at UCLA have reported.

UCLA Biochemists Discover Details of Mysterious Bacterial Microcompartments   UCLA biochemists have revealed the first structural details of a family of mysterious objects called microcompartments that seem to be present in a variety of bacteria -- a discovery that blurs the distinction between human cells and those of bacteria.

Dust-Enshrouded Star Looks Similar to our Sun, May Have Witnessed "Cosmic Catastrophe"   Astronomers at UCLA have found tremendous quantities of warm dusty debris surrounding a star with luminosity and mass similar to the sun's, but located 300 light-years from Earth -- an extraordinary phenomenon that indicates a violent history of cosmic collisions between asteroids and comets, or perhaps even between planets.

UCLA Chemists Create Nano Valve to Trap and Release Molecules   UCLA chemists have created the first valve that can be opened and closed at will to trap and release molecules -- a finding that shows that molecules can be controlled at the nano scale.

UCLA Faculty-Poet Harryette Mullen Receives 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship   Harryette Mullen, a scholar of English and African American Literature from the UCLA College of Letters and Science, has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation -- an award that is among the most prestigious honors presented to scholars, artists and writers.

'Molecular Zipper' May Hold Important Clues to Many Diseases, International Team Reports   An international team of chemists and molecular biologists has discovered a fundamental molecular mechanism that seems to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, mad cow disease and two-dozen other degenerative and fatal diseases.

UCLA Awarded $6 Million for Research on Biodefense and Infectious Diseases   UCLA has received four years of funding by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to support research for countering threats from bioterrorism agents and infectious diseases.

Arctic Lakes Are Disappearing, Says UCLA Geographer   Global warming appears to be causing lakes to drain and disappear in Arctic regions, a UCLA-headed team of researchers report.

Four College Faculty Elected Members of the National Academy of Sciences   Four UCLA faculty -- all holding appointments in the UCLA College -- received one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a scientist or engineer, when they were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 3.

Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System   An international team of astronomers from UCLA and France has confirmed the discovery of a giant planet, approximately five times the mass of Jupiter, outside of our solar system.

UCLA Team Observes Nuclear Fusion Driven by a Crystal   In the April 28 edition of the journal Nature, UCLA graduate student Brian Naranjo and colleagues report a new kind of 'bench-top' nuclear fusion, based on measurements that seem considerably more convincing than these previous claims.

Plant Biologist Steven E. Jacobsen Named Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute   Steven E. Jacobsen, a plant biologist at UCLA whose research on a weed has led to new understanding of an important mechanism for regulating gene expression in developing organisms, has been named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute - one of 43 of the nation's most promising young scientists.

UCLA Center Develops Landmark Video Study of American Middle-Class Families and Home Life   Armed with a $3.6 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a wide range of anthropological, linguistic and psychological research methods, a team of UCLA faculty is producing a landmark study of a species under considerable stress: the middle-class, dual-income family.

UCLA Launches Stem Cell Institute to Investigate New Approaches to HIV, Cancer and Neurological Disorders   Drawing together experts from fields as diverse as engineering to molecular biology, UCLA will form the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine to conduct embryonic and adult stem cell research that may lead to better treatments for HIV, cancer and neurological disorders.

UCLA Biochemists Discover Structure of Enzyme That Plays a Key Role in Cancer   UCLA biochemists have determined the three-dimensional structure of a major domain of telomerase, an enzyme that plays a key role in most cancers.

Nano Mechanism May Lead to New Protein Engineering   UCLA scientists have created a mechanism at the nanoscale to externally control the function and action of a protein.

Teens Find Sex Info. Online When They Look For It -- And Also When They Don't, Finds Children's Digital Media Ctr.   A special issue of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology devoted to research on children and the electronic media, conducted at the National Science Foundation-funded UCLA Children's Digital Media Center produces some startling findings about "the all-pervasive sexualized media environment" and "tremendous amount of inadvertent exposure to pornography and other adult sexual media" that children can find online.

Quantum Dot Imaging: New Broad Potential for Science and Medical Applications   The evolution the crystals known as quantum dots has seen the growth of this revolutionary new tool from electronic materials science to far-reaching biological applications that will allow researchers to study cell processes at the level of a single molecule and may result in new and better ways to diagnose and treat cancers.

A Fatal Medieval Triangle   Research on 14th-century France produces the dramatic, violent story of "the duel to end all duels."

Succeeding with a Single Spin   Creating control of a single electron puts nanotechnology a step closer to breakthroughs in a broad range of applications.

UCLA Astronomers Find Evidence for Tens of Thousands of Black Holes Near the Center of the Milky Way   UCLA astronomers present the first evidence that tens of thousands of black holes are orbiting the monstrous black hole at the center of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away.

Molecular Electronics: A Field in its Infancy with a Bright Future, Reports UCLA chemists   The emerging field of molecular electronics - using nanoscale molecules as key components in computers and other electronic devices - is in excellent health and has a bright future, conclude UCLA, Caltech and University of California, Santa Barbara, chemists who assess the field.

UCLA Neuroscientist Gains Insights Into Human Brain From Study of Marine Snails   What can cellular neuroscientists learn about the human brain from studying a marine snail? Much more than one might suspect.

UCLA Chemists Report New Nano Phenomenon: Welding in Response to an Ordinary Camera Flash   UCLA chemists report the discovery of a remarkable new nanoscale phenomenon: An ordinary camera flash causes the instantaneous welding together of nanofibers.

Strong Earth Tides Can Trigger Earthquakes, UCLA Scientists Report   Confirming a question that has puzzled earth scientists for more than a century, UCLA researchers have confirmed that earthquakes can be triggered by the Earth's tides.

Massive UCLA Project Recounts the Life and Times of Christopher Columbus   The 13th and final volume of the exhaustive compendium of Columbus-era documents has rolled off the presses.

UCLA Study of Maya Women of Chiapas, Mexico, Offers Insights Into Globalization's Impact and the Socialization of Children   For centuries, the Zinacantec Maya women of Chiapas, Mexico, have woven and embroidered clothing that expresses their values and embodies their role as mothers and daughters. Over 35 years, UCLA psychology professor Patricia Marks Greenfield has participated in this community, studying two generations of women and their daughters, often accompanied by her own daughter, Lauren.

UCLA Molecular Biologists Uproot the "Tree of Life"   One of science's most popular metaphors -- the "tree of life," with its evolutionary branches and roots, showing groups of bacteria on the bottom and multicellular animals on the higher branches -- turns out to be a misnomer.

Claude Hulet: Plotting the Course of The Great Worlds Explorers   Since retiring from UCLA's College in 1991, Claude Hulet has been trying to get his bearings. But the experienced sailor who fell in love with Portuguese culture as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in the 1930s wouldn't have it any other way.

UCLA Scientists Control a Single Electron's Spin   Quantum computing, which holds the promise of nearly unlimited processing power, secure communications and the ability to decode encrypted conversations by terrorists and others, is a significant step closer to becoming a reality today with new research published by a team of UCLA scientists.

UCLA Biologist Elma Gonzalez Helps Minority Students Succeed in Science   Elma Gonzalez, a cell biologist at UCLA, has been involved for more than 25 years in programs that help minority students succeed in scientific research careers.

Biochemist Emil Reisler Named Dean of Life Sciences at UCLA   Emil Reisler, a long-time academic leader at UCLA and a renowned biochemist whose work explores the functioning of proteins at the molecular level, has been named dean of life sciences in UCLA's College of Letters and Science.

UCLA Chemists Create An Elegant Solution To A Centuries-Old Problem   UCLA chemists have devised an elegant solution to an intricate problem at the nanoscale that stumped scientists for many years.

Three College Faculty Receive Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2004   Three faculty in the College have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among the most prestigious honors presented to scholars, artists and writers.

UCLA Chemists Develop New Coating for Nanoscale Probe   A new process developed by chemists in the College allows the observation of the "molecular dance of life," and opens the door to potential nanotechnology applications for biology and medicine.

Historian Gabrielle Spiegel Named Dean of Humanities   An renowned scholar who has served in national leadership roles in historical studies has been named dean of humanities in the College.

Bird's Song May Be Key to Understanding Human Speech Disorders   UCLA scientists have found parallels between human speech and the song of a bird -- findings that may contain clues to human speech disorders.

UCLA Chemists Report the Most Sophisticated Artificial Nanomachine Yet   UCLA supramolecular chemists have created an artificial molecular machine that functions like a nanoscale elevator, a device that could find use in such processes as slow-release drug delivery systems, or control of chemical reactions conducted in 'laboratories on a chip.'

Center that Studies Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Illnesses Receives $5 million gift from Staglin Family   A UCLA center that focuses on the early detection of and preventive intervention in schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses has received a gift of $5 million from the family of Garen K. and Sharalyn King Staglin.

Conference on April 16 Brings Together World-Renowned Scientists to Address Origin of Animals   An all-day symposium on April 16 hosted by the UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life will explore the geologically "sudden" appearance of animals in the fossil record -- a period known as the Cambrian explosion.

Belief in Placebo Produces Physical Changes in the Brain, UCLA Psychologists Find   A new UCLA study reveals that patients with chronic abdominal pain who received daily placebo pills for three weeks experienced not only improvement in their symptoms, but also showed physiological changes in their brain structures as well.

Award-winning historian and UC administrator Patricia O'Brien Named Executive Dean of the UCLA College   Patricia O'Brien, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has been named executive dean of the UCLA College -- the largest academic unit in the University of California (UC) system.

Earthquakes Can Be Predicted Months in Advance, Report UCLA Scientists Who Predicted San Simeon Earthquake   Major earthquakes can be predicted months in advance, argues UCLA seismologist and mathematical geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok.

Bullying in Schools: Pervasive, Disruptive and Serious, UCLA Study Finds   More than one in five 12-year-olds are repeatedly either bullies, victims or both, and bullies are often popular and viewed by classmates as the "coolest" in their classes, according to new UCLA research from the most comprehensive study on young adolescent bullying in an ethnically diverse, large urban setting.

UCLA-led Primate Researchers Find That Social Mothers Are Better Mothers   Primping and passing time with peers may serve a serious purpose, suggests a new study by a UCLA-led team of researchers studyin the behavior of baboons.

Large Asteroid, Lost for 66 Years, Is Found to Be Two Objects Orbiting Each Other   A UCLA planetary scientist and colleagues have found that an asteroid that has eluded astronomers for decades turns out to be an unusual pair of objects traveling together in space.

UCLA Researcher Owen Witte Wins De Villiers International Achievement Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society   College Researcher Owen Witte has been honored for "extraordinary contributions that led to breakthrough leukemia treatments."

UCLA Physicists Create A New Sensor Using A Single Molecule   UCLA physicists have created a first-of-its-kind sensor using a single molecule less than 20 nanometers long -- one-thousandth the thickness of a human hair.

Million-star Cluster in Nearby Galaxy, Thousands of Violent "O" Stars, and Gravity-Bound Gas Reported by UCLA Astronomers   A small, bizarre cluster of a million young stars, enshrouded in thick gas and dust in a nearby dwarf galaxy, has been confirmed by Jean Turner, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, and her colleagues.

Cesar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies Reports Progress on Its 10-Year Anniversary   In the 10 years since UCLA converted its undergraduate program in Chicano Studies into the Cesar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction, this field of study has flourished at UCLA.

Centuries-Old Epidemic Holds Clues to Today's Diabetes Puzzle, Says UCLA Study   A diabetes epidemic that appears to have claimed the life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach may explain baffling disparities in the disease's rates among 21st-century ethnic groups, a UCLA geographer and evolutionary biologist reports.

World's First Farmers - not Hunter-Gatherers - Sowed Seeds for Most Modern Languages, Say UCLA, Australian Researchers   As the first farmers spread agriculture across the globe, they also sowed seeds for most of today's languages, researchers from UCLA and the Australian National University conclude in the most up-to-date survey of research in the field.

UCLA and German Biologists Identify a Molecule that May Play Critical Role in Fertilization   In research with potential implications for both increasing fertilization and preventing pregnancies, UCLA biologists and German cell physiologists report that they have isolated and identified a molecule that attracts sperm.

UCLA Chemists Report New Method for Producing Carbon Nanoscrolls, an Alternative to Nanotubes   UCLA chemists have found a room-temperature chemical method for producing a new form of carbon called carbon nanoscrolls. Nanoscrolls are closely related to the much touted carbon nanotubes - which may have numerous industrial applications - but have significant advantages over them.

UCLA Scientists Report That Changes in Exercise and Diet Can Kill Prostate Cancer Cells   A UCLA study finds that that 11 days of daily exercise and the Pritikin low-fat, high-fiber diet induce prostate cancer cells to die.

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