Covid in heart muscle: Microscope images showing (left) healthy heart muscle cells and (right) heart muscle cells that have been infected and damaged by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (in green). Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/JCI Insight

Life Sciences faculty part of UCLA team studying how COVID-19 causes multiple organ failure

Researchers from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative…
“Zoot Suit” cast dancing at the Mark Taper Forum. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive/ UCLA Library Special Collections

Professor aims to put the history of Mexicans in Los Angeles at your fingertips

Marissa López’s app, ‘Picturing Mexican America,’ will…
Illustration of Maripau Paz, a first-generation college student, says AAP creates a welcoming environment. “During my freshman year, I was so scared,” she says. “But AAP made everything easy to understand, and soon I was able to manage the coursework on my own.”Jon Stich
Assistant Professor Stephanie Correa and doctoral student Norma Sandoval are working together to advance science as well as equity at UCLA and beyond Photo
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DataX initiative aims to broaden UCLA expertise in data and data science

By Sean Brenner  The collection, analysis and application…

UCLA internet studies and race scholar Safiya Noble awarded MacArthur Fellowship

Professor Safiya Noble, director of an interdisciplinary…
Terence Tao in his UCLA office

Terence Tao named to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Terence Tao, UCLA professor of mathematics, has been selected…
Transfer Student Program zoom class for English 2 - Math and Science Cohort with Ms. Poston

New students get a head start at Freshman Transfer Summer Program

By Robin Migdol   Going into his freshman year…
Professor Marissa López examines Robert Becker’s "Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants if 1822-1846 from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco" in the Rare Books room at Central Library downtown. PHOTO CREDIT: Yvonne Condes
Flooding in Altenahr, Germany in July 2021 Photo Credit: Martin SeifertMartin Seifert

Parched land could help contain some floods but catastrophic flooding still likely to increase

By David Colgan Evidence is mounting that climate change…