Tag Archive for: research

A photo of the Owens Valley lakebed.

Effort to limit dust pollution in Owens Valley is advancing, but still room to improve

The century-long battle over water between California’s…
A photo of an I voted sticker.

USA Today harnesses UCLA political scientists’ ‘Nationscape’ data

As voters in 14 states, including California, go to the polls…
An employment among homeless graphic.

Nearly 75% of L.A. County’s homeless previously worked in California

A report published Feb. 26 by the California Policy Lab…
Ellen DuBois, professor emerita of history in the UCLA College and author of “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote.”

Historian’s new book traces three generations of suffragists

They persisted. August 2020 marks the 100th anniversary…

Professor Seeks to Provide All Students with a Pathway to Research Success

When Tracy Johnson was an undergraduate working in a lab…
An illustration that shows the Earth’s magnetosphere during a magnetic storm.

Researchers discover a new source of space weather – too close to home

Beyond Earth’s atmosphere are swirling clouds of energized…

Esmeralda Villavicencio Is Working to Make Disease and Infertility a Thing of the Past

UCLA College division of Life Sciences student Esmeralda Isabel…
A photo of a Himba father and son.

Study of African society inspires broad thinking about human paternity, fidelity

A new study from UCLA professor of anthropology Brooke Scelza…
A photo of Michelle Craske.

Michelle Craske to share how research can inform anxiety and depression treatment

For more than three decades, Michelle Craske has been trying…
Photo of a computer-generated 3D rendering of a flu virus.

First childhood flu helps explain why virus hits some people harder than others

Why are some people better able to fight off the flu than…