Andrea Ghez, Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine Chair in Astrophysics at UCLA, receiving an honorary doctorate from Oxford University on June 26, 2019. Ghez is with her sons.

UCLA astronomer receives honorary degree from Oxford

By Lisa Garibay Andrea Ghez, distinguished professor of…
Student researchers on the beach hold up water samples for the camera
Photo of Haya Kaliounji

UCLA graduate helps victims of Syrian war ‘rise again’

Haya Kaliounji’s nonprofit provides wounded people in her…
Bruin Space team members Chloe Liau, Andrew Evans, and Alexander Gonzalez holding their final flight model.

UCLA students touch space with a microgravity experiment

Magnetic pump built by Bruin Space launches on Blue Origin…
Photo of Dr. Anna Lee Fisher

Dr. Anna Lee Fisher, first mother in space, to deliver 2019 UCLA College centennial commencement address

Chemist, physician, astronaut and UCLA alumna will speak…
Coretta Harris, left, chair of the 2019 Gold Shield Faculty Prize Committee; Paul Barber; and Karen Sears, ecology and evolutionary biology department chair, who nominated Barber for the award.

Marine scientist Paul Barber named 2019 Gold Shield Faculty Prize winner

  In the very first day of his “Introduction to…