Tag Archive for: UCLA Life Sciences

Photo of UCLA professor Kent Hill and graduate student Stephanie DeMarco

Scientists identify a key gene in the transmission of deadly African sleeping sickness

  Life scientists from UCLA and the University of…
Diagram of Vegetation density in California in 2011 versus 2014.

California ‘browning’ more in the south during droughts

  Like a climate chameleon, California turned brown…
Photo of Shane Campbell-Staton

UCLA biology professor uses superheroes to help students sift fact from fiction

While Shane Campbell-Staton was working on his dissertation…

40 UCLA scientists among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations

The researchers rank in the top 1 percent in their fields in…

Alumnus Morton La Kretz awarded the UCLA Medal, campus’s highest honor

“Morton’s leadership and philanthropy are testaments to his…

For one grad and his dad a happy twist on like father, like son

Kevin thanks his mother’s persistence in pursuing…

UCLA faculty voice: Separating children from parents at the border isn’t just cruel. It’s torture.

Children arriving at the U.S. border in search of asylum are…

UCLA professors Paul Barber, Robert Wayne to enhance undergraduate STEM education

The program will provide year-long support for underrepresented…

UCLA professors of biology and chemistry honored as 2017 Packard fellows

Elaine Hsiao, UCLA assistant professor of integrative biology…

$5 million gift from Morton La Kretz will support renovation of UCLA Botany Building

The restoration and improvements made possible by the donation…