Photo of baby laughing

Babies Know the Difference between the Laughter of Friends and Strangers

Five-month-olds may use chuckles to identify information about…
Graduates in Pauley Pavilion

UCLA College Celebrates Centennial Graduates

  Amid cheers and tears of happiness, the centennial…
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
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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…
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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…
Karida Brown and Robert Dallek

Two professors will be part of the Obama Presidency Oral History Project

Karida Brown, assistant professor of sociology, and Robert…
New simulations suggest that carbon (C) routinely bonded with iron (Fe), silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) deep within the magma ocean that covered Earth when it was young.

New insights about carbon and ice could clarify inner workings of Earth, other planets

  Most people behave differently when under extreme…