Image of Marilyn Raphael, director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.Image credit: Ashley Kruythoff/UCLA

Talking environmental solutions with Marilyn Raphael

By David Colgan | April 21, 2022 Environmental news…
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Ready for mission to International Space Station, alumna Jessica Watkins reflects on her journey so far

By Elizabeth Kivowitz and Stuart Wolpert | April 7, 2022 Jessica…
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UCLA names Alex Stern dean of humanities

By Sean Brenner | April 14, 2022 Alexandra Minna Stern,…
Image of Gymnast Katelyn Ohashi on the balance beam.Image credit: Emily Howell-Forbes

Gymnast, activist Katelyn Ohashi to deliver UCLA College commencement address

The UCLA alumna will speak at all three ceremonies June 10…
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UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability receives $1.5 million pledge from founding director

The gift from Richard and Linda Turco will support students…
Image of Judith Baca, UCLA professor emeritus of Chicana and Chicano and Central American studies and of world arts and cultures, at the unveiling of her mural “La Memoria de la Tierra: UCLA.” Image credit: Don Liebig/ASUCLAImage credit: Don Liebig/ASUCLA

New mural captures campus history and UCLA’s future

Renowned artist and professor Judith Baca created the nearly…
Image of electrons in a Van Allen radiation belt (blue) encountering whistler waves (purple) and being sent raining toward the north pole (red). THEMIS satellites are seen near the radiation belt, while UCLA’s ELFIN hovers above Earth.Image source: Zhang, et al., Nature Communications, 2022

UCLA researchers discover source of super-fast ‘electron rain’

The downpours, which can affect satellites and space travel,…
Image of Angela Deaver Campbell with three 2019 graduates who benefited from the Scholarship Resource Center’s support, Wesley Armstrong, Sereena Nand and Austin Lee.Image credit: Alyssa Bierce/UCLA College

25 years of helping UCLA students graduate with less debt

Scholarship Resource Center celebrates a quarter-century…
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UCLA poised to become a world leader in hip-hop studies

Building on decades of scholarship, the campus’s new Hip…
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The secret to longevity? Ask a yellow-bellied marmot

UCLA-led study shows that aging slows to a crawl when the…