New scholarship supports undergraduate internships at community organizations

By Robin Migdol An unpaid summer internship is practically…
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Karen McKinnon receives Packard fellowship

UCLA climate statistician Karen McKinnon was selected to…
Photos: Oscar Wilde, 1882 (credit: Napoleon Sarony, from a collection in the Clark Library). Merlin Holland, Wilde’s only grandson (credit: Ed White)

Gift to UCLA’s Clark Library establishes fellowship to support research on Oscar Wilde

By Margaret MacDonald UCLA has received a generous gift…

Barbra Streisand to fund forward-looking institute at UCLA focused on solving societal challenges

“Building upon her decades of work as an artist and activist,…
Ph.D. candidate Joshua McGuffie studies the biological effects of radiation in the mid-20th century

Lessons from—and for—an Atomic America

Ph.D. candidate Joshua McGuffie studies the biological effects…
Photo of Urban oil drilling in Inglewood. Photo Credit: Ty Woodson/KLCS

UCLA environmental experts featured in PBS series about sustainability

Faculty and others play a major role in shaping stories of accountability…
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

To Go Far, Go Together: UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program

Assistant Professor Stephanie Correa and doctoral student Norma Sandoval are working together to advance science as well as equity at UCLA and beyond Photo

Assistant Professor Stephanie Correa and doctoral student Norma Sandoval are working together to advance science as well as equity at UCLA and beyond

Stronger Together By Jonathan Riggs Science is anything…