Tag Archive for: research

Gillian Smith smiling while wearing a purple sweater and red baseball hat, with canyon formations and a blue afternoon sky in the background.

Gillian Smith is living history

This graduating senior changed her academic direction—and life—at…
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a human B cell

Biological bouncers: How immune cells yank antigens from surfaces to learn and evolve

NIAID/Flickr UCLA physicists have shown that B cells, like…
Giraffes on a plain

Emerging field of evolutionary medicine could address range of health conditions

UCLA researchers say the approach could help tackle cancer,…

A Victorian-era computer pioneer gets to speak for herself

Ada Lovelace published the first description of a computer program;…
X7 location relative to the supermassive black hole

A mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center

UCLA astronomers think the object, X7, might be debris cloud…
Picture of a hand gently holding a baby’s fingers.

New UCLA center promotes reproductive science and sexual health

Holly Ober | January 30, 2023 A new center at UCLA…
UCLA Fulbright winners collage

Graduate students selected for Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Vania Sciolini | November 9, 2022 The Fulbright-Hays…
Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in a casino in scene from Rain Man | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

Recent UCLA grad helped Wikipedia set the record straight on ‘Rain Man’ and autism

Lucy Berbeo | December 21, 2022 The 1988 film “Rain…
Dipterocarp Forest at Danum Valley | Mike Prince/FlickrDipterocarp Forest at Danum Valley | Mike Prince/Flickr

Understanding what makes rainforests distinct from one another could advance conservation efforts

Even when they’re located near each other, not all rainforests…
Still image from a fairyland virtual reality environmentCourtesy of Jesse Rissman

When using virtual reality as a teaching tool, context and ‘feeling real’ matter

People remember foreign vocabulary better when lessons are associated…