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![An image of the Madrigal family from the Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Encanto”](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Encanto_Group-363x237-1.png)
UCLA botanist Felipe Zapata brings Colombia’s biodiversity to Academy Award winner ‘Encanto’
Felipe Zapata taps into his life’s work, as well as…
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UCLA, partners win Department of Energy grant to boost diversity in field of nuclear physics
By Stuart Wolpert
The UCLA Department of Physics and…
![Collage image of the UCLA College’s 2022 Sloan Fellows. Top row from left: Seulgi Moon, David Baqaee, and Mikhail Solon. Bottom row from left: Chong Liu, Natalie Bau, and Guido Montúfar.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/UCLASloanfellows2022_rev-363.png)
Six UCLA College faculty among 2022 Sloan Research Fellows
Editor’s note: Congratulations to all of the UCLA scholars…
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Professor’s invention is a kid-friendly introduction to the chemistry of light
Ellen Sletten’s Photonbooth gives L.A. students a picture-perfect…
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Days with hazardous levels of air pollutants are more common due to increase in wildfires
In Western U.S., health risks from ground-level ozone and fine…
![Rendering of the Kepler-444 planetary system.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Kepler-444-363x237.png)
UCLA astronomers discover more than 300 possible new exoplanets
Findings also include a distinctive planetary system with…
![Image of smoke from a 2019 Northern California wildfire, seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/RongFuwildfirephotocreditNASA-495x400.jpg)
Increasingly frequent wildfires linked to human-caused climate change, UCLA-led study finds
By Stuart Wolpert
Research by scientists from UCLA and…
![Montage of diverse images of researchers in the sciences and social sciences](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Diverseresearchsubjects_hero-495x400.jpg)
UCLA College scholars among most highly cited researchers for 2021
Editor’s note: Congratulations to the UCLA College…
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Neuroscientist Adriana Galván named 2021 Gold Shield Faculty Prize winner
Adriana Galván, dean of undergraduate education at UCLA,…
![A photo of Dr. Scott Wilke and Jovian Cheung.](https://www.college.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Jovian-Cheung-Goldwater-495x400.jpg)
Two Bruins win prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
UCLA undergraduates Jovian Cheung and Kevin Jiang have won…