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UCLA receives $5 million from Mellon Foundation

Universities today face a daunting challenge: how to serve new…

Oscars Still So White: Academy Nominates Nearly All White Actors, Again

For the second year in a row, no non-white actor was among the…

In memoriam: Professor emeritus Howard Reiss

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, Reiss was…

Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes, UCLA biologists report

Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago…

Propelling the Groundbreakers and the Game Changers

Eleven new endowed faculty chairs established in less than two…

Crowning 60 Years of Support and Advocacy

Marcia Howard ’54 considers UCLA her second home – no great…

Faculty couple helps foster sense of community in their department

Distinguished professor of paleobiology J. William “Bill”…

Is seeing believing? People are surprisingly bad at identifying where sights and sounds originate

“We tend to view our senses as flawless and think that to see…

Kiplinger reports UCLA is No. 6 ‘best value’ public college in 2016 ranking

UCLA remains one of the nation’s best values among public colleges…

UCLA faculty voice: Race, dignity and luck

For more than a year, this country has witnessed an extraordinary…